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Woodward: Kissinger Re-Fighting Vietnam via Bush

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Posted on Oct 2, 2006
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CBS’ Mike Wallace speaks to The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about his new book, “State of Denial.”

In his “60 Minutes” interview, Bob Woodward said Henry Kissinger “is almost like a member of the [Bush] family,” and that in his frequent meetings with Bush and Cheney, Kissinger’s dogmatic ‘stay the course’ advice on Iraq amounts to “fighting the Vietnam war again.”

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“60 Minutes” transcript via Crooks and Liars:

Wallace: Cheney stunned Woodward by revealing that a frequent advisor to the Bush white house is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who served Presidents Nixon and Ford during the Vietnam War.

>> Woodward: He’s back. In fact, Henry Kissinger is almost like a member of the family. If he’s in town, he can call up, and if the president’s free, he’ll see him.

>> Wallace: Woodward recorded his on-the-record interview with Cheney, and here’s what the vice president said about Henry Kissinger’s clout.

>> Dick Cheney: Of the outside people that I talk to in this job, I probably talk to Henry Kissinger more than just about anybody else. He just comes by, and I guess at least once a month I sit down with him.

>> Wallace: And the same with the president?

>> Woodward: Yes. Absolutely.

>> Wallace: President Bush is, I understand…

>> Woodward: A big fan of his. Now, what’s Kissinger’s advice? In Iraq, he declared very simply: Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy. This is so fascinating. Kissinger’s fighting the Vietnam War again, because in his view, the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will. That we didn’t stick to it.

>> Wallace: So Henry Kissinger is telling George W. Bush, “Stick to it. Stay the course.”

>> Woodward: That’s right. It’s right out of the Kissinger playbook.
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By Steve O'Glow, October 9, 2006 at 10:20 pm #
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Who are those that silent the last of are poetry.
The supreme, will always be on the side of the poet.
What ever imerge from a dead poet society, is doom to failure.

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By Bukko in Australia, October 3, 2006 at 4:11 pm #
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Thank goodness Kissinger is an old man. He’ll be dead by the time America gets involved in a new guerrilla war in Colombia (after losing the war in Iraq). Kissinger won’t there to advise the U.S. president how we must prevent the South American dominoes from falling into the clutches of Chavez-style socialists. No, that will be Rumsfeld’s job…

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By Allan, October 2, 2006 at 6:44 pm #
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I’m a Vietnam Veteran.  I guess I don’t really have to say much more except that one of the things that we veterans of that fiasco thought would come of it that was good, was that because of it, we had contributed our all towards never having to see a war like that fought again.

How is it that we obviously didn’t learn from Pearl Harbor or there wouldn’t have been a 9/11 at ALL?  How is it that we obviously didn’t learn from Vietnam or we wouldn’t be involved in someone else’s civil war.

When we came back, you all called us “losers” and “baby killers”.  PAY HEED!!  You BETTER NOT call any of our little brothers or sisters those names when they come back all broken, mutilated, and without families, jobs, and (horribly enough) MINUS THEIR MINDS!!  We know what that’s all about.  We’ll stand with them and you will never forget our outcry!

The whole problem as I see it is that 90% of you armchair quarterbacks don’t have the balls to stand up and take YOUR country away from guys like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.  YOU are the citizens.  YOU keep looking to government for the answers to these perplexing questions.  When in God’s name are you going to realize that IT’S YOUR COUNTRY.  YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT!!  When is enough, going to FINALLY BE enough???

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By Michael Murry, October 2, 2006 at 1:02 pm #
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Yes, I see that Herr Domino Theorist has returned to profer some more “strategic introductions” to our deadbeat dictator, Deputy Dubya Bush. Influence peddling by any other name would stink as foul.

Anyway, as a victim/veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-1972)I have this to say about why America’s War on Iraq looks so much like America’s War on Vietnam—only worse for having learned nothing the last time:

“Rasputin and the Retard”

We hear that Henry Kissinger
Has come around once more,
His battered ego trailing in
The dirt upon the floor
To offer for a princely sum
The council of a whore

This ruined and discredited
Rasputin on the take
Has smelled an opportunity
To sell some snake oil fake
To lordly swine who rightly fear
Due justice at the stake

He’s found in Bush a kindred soul:
A poodle-screwing fool
As desperate a demagogue
Who ever dropped a stool
Into his drooping diapers as
He broke the Golden Rule

His own dead reputation he
Can not resuscitate
And so he seeks in George the Worst
A Prussian monarch mate
A bomber just like him with whom
He can commiserate

A tyro Torquemada who
Finds torture to his taste
Demanding dispensation for
Decisions made in haste
Like launching warfare unrefined
That he had never faced

To re-fight Vietnam and “win”
A “victory” at last
This vain and vicious Visigoth
Would have George bomb and blast
Another pipsqueak country like
He did back in the past

George asked us to go shopping while
He tapped the Nation’s till
He told us not to worry, now
He says we must keep still
While he continues messing up
And sending us the bill

He says that if we do not stay
The “terrorists” will “win”
The bottom of the garbage pit
That he has dumped us in
Where now our troops must fight and die
As cover for his sin

But Henry the Hysterical
Still counsels Bomb and Bash
Like George he says to “stay the curse”
While pilfering our stash
They took off by themselves but want
Us with them when they crash

“We cannot lose our will,” they say,
When we balk and refuse
Yet shopping on our credit cards
Has robbed them of their ruse
We have no will invested thus
We have no will to lose

But anyway they pass the buck
It all comes back to him
Who blew the nation’s wad on war
And did it on a whim
Who marketed a pack of lies
To sell his purpose dim

The bubbles in the nation’s blood
Begin to pop and fizz
Responsibility abounds
Just never any his
An expectation set so low
That nothing lower is

Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright 2006

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By Antoinette, October 2, 2006 at 10:05 am #
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The last time a President listened to Dr Kissingers advice

60,000 of our boy’s died.

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By Anita Lefkort, October 2, 2006 at 9:26 am #
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WHAT IS ENOUGH? At every expose of the Bush & Co. I keep thinking “Well, this should do it!” Now we have Bob Woodward’s book isn’t THAT enough!  Nothing seems to stick to this disasterest group.
You should replay C.Rice testomoney at the 9/11 Comission where she reluctantly answered that they did know there was an attack coming.  THAT should have been ENOUGH!

Maybe it’s because we have Chaney waiting in the wings…

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