So Mr. Kissinger, have you seen this too?
Frank Rich writing about the impending Gulf War asks some excellent questions in todays NYT editorial page. If Kissinger can not or will not answer the questions about his "client list" then why in the hell should he be allowed to chair a commission like this, unless it's a rigged deal going in (which, sad to say, I think is correct). Here's the money paragraph as far as I am concerned. The emphasis is mine:

Might these lists overlap? Might some of the names be dear American business cronies of the Saudis? Do any of them have a vested interest in post-Saddam Iraq? It's stonewalled questions like these that make some of us nervous about the expanded war to come. We know Saddam Hussein is a thug and we want him gone. But the administration has never stuck to a single story in arguing the case for urgent pre-emptive action now. Saddam was in league with Al Qaeda — or maybe he wasn't. He has nuclear weapons — or maybe he won't have them until some years from now. Our goal is regime change — or disarmament — or both. Our post-Saddam endgame is — what? Something is missing from this picture, and meanwhile Al Qaeda is very much at war with us and, in a new development, the Israelis. You wonder if the Bush administration thinks we're as gullible as the Saudis do.