Obama's Pinochet Team

22 May 2008

May 21, 2008 (LPAC)--Senator Barack Obama's top campaign national security advisor, Anthony Lake, has been in a partnership with the architect of the George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Presidency, George W. Shultz, for the past five years. Lake and Shultz have been the honorary co-chairs of the Princeton Project on National Security, a group of liberal imperialists, who have been promoting the idea of an Anglo-American led ``Concert of Democracies'' to carry out preventive and preemptive wars of regime change around the world--totally outside the framework of the United Nations Charter. In late 2004, Lake and Shultz's Princeton Project co-sponsored a conference with Felix Rohatyn's Rohatyn Center at Middlebury College in Vermont, promoting the British East India Company model of ``privatization of national security.''

Lake's partnership with George Shultz, the architect of the Pinochet military coup d'etat in Chile, that installed a genocidal regime to impose British free trade through the barrel of a gun, prompted Lyndon LaRouche today to issue warnings about ``Obama's Pinochet Team.'' ``To bring an intimate collaborator of George Shultz in, as his chief national security advisor, is the height of poor judgment on the part of Senator Obama,'' LaRouche observed. ``Doesn't he know about Shultz's role in the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile? Doesn't he know about Operation Condor, and the legions of Nazi war criminals, who were set loose by Shultz, and his fellow Pinochet booster Felix Rohatyn, as death squads all over the hemisphere and in Europe?''