RICHARD HOLBROOKE dead per CNBC

wasn't he the one that was supposed to help with the Korea thing?

[link to blogs.abcnews.com]

Confirmed...BBC News

Didn't he like die already?

bunker

Torn aeorta... wow. same thing i had yet I survived.

and there goes the last of the Balcan wars "playa" RIP

Yeah, they said that some are easier to repair than others. He had a real bad one. 20 hour operation one day and a 7 hour operation the next. Never did wake up so maybe thats the good thing about it.

Who? And why should we care?

That's probably the first thing that comes to mind when anyone famous or high up in govt 'dies' these days.

It was the first thing that crossed my mind.

I'm pretty sure I read on here that he was going to be involved in some backdoor talks with Koreas

Another warmonger is dead, it's very sad, watch me cry great big tears.

breaking on foxnews now.

while meeting with Hilly Clinton... lol

Richard Holbrook "pact with the devil" supporting mujahudein in Bosnia and backer of Muslim drug running jihadists Kosovo Albanians

"KLA’s Godfather – Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrook, Clinton’s "troubleshooter", was the KLA’s godfather. It was not his only "pact with the devil" (as he called bringing the mujahedins into Bosnia in his memoirs)".

Peace talks? So this could be the unforeseen trigger that allows an escalation and war?

It's a safer world!

peace talks...the buy used to be a real life super villain.

he's one of those types that conquers with peace.

(the news is true)
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Holbrooke was not good to my people.

God forgive him and may he rest in piece.

Last Edited by Bianco on 12/13/2010 08:18 PM

most likely

maybe they killed him.. odd.. torn what????

You hit the nail on the head there.

He wasn't good to anybody's people. Reptilian to the core.

CFR member

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JOSHUA FRANK
Counterpunch
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009

In wee morning hours on Friday, January 23, a U.S. spy plane killed at least 15 in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. It was Barack Obama’s first blood and the U.S.’s first violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty under the new administration. The attack was an early sign that the newly minted president may not be overhauling the War on Terror this week, or even next.

As the U.S. government fired upon alleged terrorists in the rugged outback of Pakistan, Obama was back in Washington appointing Richard Holbrooke as a special U.S. representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, like the remote control bombing that claimed human life, Obama’s vision for the region, in the embodiment of Holbrooke, may not be a drastic departure from the failed Bush doctrine. Or a departure at all.

“[Holbrooke] is one of the most talented diplomats of his generation,” Obama said during a January 22 press conference at the State Department. In his speech Obama declared that both Afghanistan and Pakistan will be the “central front” in the War on Terror. “There, as in the Middle East, we must understand that we cannot deal with our problems in isolation,” he said.

Despite Obama’s insistence that Holbrooke is qualified to leave the U.S.’s new efforts in the War on Terror, history seems to disagree.

In 1975, during Gerald Ford’s administration, Indonesia invaded East Timor and slaughtered 200,000 indigenous Timorese. The Indonesian invasion of East Timor set the stage for a long and bloody occupation that recently ended after an international peacekeeping force was introduced in 1999.

Transcripts of meetings among Indonesian dictator Mohamed Suharto, Gerald Ford, and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have shown conclusively that Kissinger and Ford authorized and encouraged Suhatro’s murderous actions. “We will understand and will not press you on the issue [of East Timor],” said President Ford in a meeting with Suharto and Kissinger in early December 1975, days before Suharto’s bloodbath. “We understand the problem and the intentions you have,” he added.

Henry Kissinger also stressed at the meeting that “the use of US-made arms could create problems,” but then added, “It depends on how we construe it; whether it is in self-defense or is a foreign operation.” Thus, Kissinger’s concern was not about whether US arms would be used offensively, but whether the act could be interpreted as illegal. Kissinger went on: “It is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly.”

much more at link

Add it to the Clinton body count! I wonder what he knew besides all of the Wikileaks.

He died and then they reported him as dead again. Within 2 days. Wonder if it was a mini timeline slip.. Maybe the first one didn't take.

Really? Got a link to the first 'death' 2 days ago??