Write on! Molly.
Still a fan after all these years.

Leslie Hoffman
California transplant to Nevada

Molly,
Shucks, I thought Heir Kiss….had gone to the big nazi fire in the sky, ok, maybe just wished for it.
As always, thanks for the voice of reason.
Chris Tandy
Louisville, Ky

What do you know what do you know, we now know Kissinger is Bush’s so called value. The uncanny similarities are Bush’s shock and awe in Iraq and Kissinger’s indiscrimated bombing of vietnam and Cambodia.

What a satanic destruction in the name of jesus and god.

el cuervo wrote,

”...Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, AND Kissinger can all go on trial for war crimes together, one sunny day, not too far away. And it would be great if we could get Osama on trial with them…”—this is the crux of it: to get Al CIA-DUH into the dock with their handlers, i.e. bringing down the shadow government responsible for all this mayhem.

Note: if WMD go off anywhere in the world, don’t look to the cave, the laptop, bin Laden. Look to Cheney and his handler, who, we now have on Mr. Woodward’s authority, is Dr. K.

Molly, please lend your voice to 911Truth.

The “Let them eat cake” prize goes to Kissinger for his comment made about the debate to remove troops from Viet Nam. He said removing troops from Viet Nam would be like eating salted peanuts. Once the public got a taste of troop drawdowns they would want more.

This neocon bastard is in the same boat with Kristol, Podhoretz, Krauthammer who will lie, cheat and steal to get the US involved permanently in the middle east.

I look back at a comment made to Bill Kristol by Juan Williams on Fox. He responded to Kristol’s call for an invasion of Iran. Juan said,“War, War, and more War. That’s all you talk about…and look where it has gotten us.

All you have to do is SEE the Kissenger connection with the “Society for International Studies”. It becomes quite apparrent what is going on.

Thanks for the article and thoughts, Molly.  Thanks.

And nice verses, M. Murry.  Very well-crafted
and obviously not an easy piece to write.

Molly, it might be a good thing that Kissinger is part of this administration, because then Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, AND Kissinger can all go on trial for war crimes together, one sunny day, not too far away. And it would be great if we could get Osama on trial with them, then we may start the world moving in a better direction.

Molly - Tom Lehrer’s last album was in 1965 and last official performance was in 1967. He didn’t quit due to Kissinger, but did say that Kissinger winning the Peace Prize made political satire obsolete. Everything else you say is good as gold.

Loved the Article.  Kissinger has always been an evil, vile, despicable being. I cannot believe we even allow him to stay in the country.  I’m glad Woodward’s book gave us that info.  But I don’t understand why he is continually on TV for his opinion of news,  why can’t people wake up and see how worthless he is.  And James Baker is another one,  Corporate greed, Carlyle Grp, and selling America down the river without a paddle is all they have been good for.  Will these worthless, corrupt people ever get out of our lives.  I am sick to death of them.

All these nuts advising Bush on war and terrorism probably met at The Bohemian Grove while dancing nakedly around a bonfire.

The best way to stop the Bushists’ foisting their own foibles on their opponents is to focus Bushist mirrorspeak laserlike back on THEM!

Molly, et all:

Read the article if you haven’t already: Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism, By Robert Parry - Consortium News dated Friday 22 September 2006, it can be retrieved on Google.  This will explain Kissinger’s frequent visits to the Bush White House.  This cover up goes deeper than we can ever imagine.  Thank you for all you do!

Surely, Miss Molly, you understand that Mr. Kissinger would be highly insulted not to be included in this administration of fast-becoming notorious criminals.  He’s right in his element!!

Rock on Molly!! Your refusal to back down from what is right is essential in these times (and all other times for that matter).

Everything you say is true, Molly. I read your work eagerly, with admiration for your sense and your persistent sense of humor. I hope these folks don’t realize the laws abolishing most of the Bill of Rights will be used against them before they are annulled.
  War for no reason is murder. This whole administration is accessory to murder and torture. Sadly, they’ve left blood on all our hands, and their lies have branded all of us as subhuman and un-American.
  Fortunatly, like Pres. Clinton says, we can do better, and it won’t be difficult.
  I grieve for all those who’ve suffered as a result of these criminals’ actions.
  They cut funds for safeguarding schools, money for school lunches, cut needed money for levee maintenance before Katrina, cut money for Veterans’ benefits, denied seniors needed medicines, allowed an increase in airborne mercury—as if they don’t breathe the same air as the rest of us.
  Now, after giving billions in tax cuts for oil companies, gas prices have mysteriously dropped in advance of election day. Whatever they do now will come back to give the lie to all they’ve done before. What a bunch of shameless simpletons.

M. S. Weiss
Mexico, MO

I think it is interesting that the more the Bush administration denies that Iraq has parallels with Vietnam, the more it creates them.

Kissinger.  I suppose this means that there is just the hint of a recognition by the neo con boys that they are in over their heads.  They were originally inspired by Kissinger’s Latin American agitations.  Fortunately for all of them the public was (and still is) almost completely in the dark about what was going on there.

Why isn’t someone like Granny D being called in as an advisor?  She has classic American good sense.

Love your columns Molly. Keep ‘em coming. Hope you’re feeling better.

Has anyone figured out why the drum beater for the Bushitter gang of thugs has all of a sudden become a detractor?

After all the fiction in his previous two books that show him to be following the Rove script, I can’t trust one single word he says about anything, no matter how much I’d like to believe some of his juicier revelations in the new tome.

One thing I know about this: Woodward is a liar; out from the lips of any good liar does come a certain amount of half truth and accidental factual material, but believing ANYTHING which comes from Woodward’s section of the WaSHITon Post is a risky business after the crap we have got from Suzie Schidt and Peter Baker over the years.

One of the things I think Woodward has been used for is to supply gravitas to the Bush image, not so much gilding the lily as painting a brain on the moron. If you don’t think Bush is a moron, then YOU are one, I am sorry to report. If you think the Bush thugs would have invaded and occupied an oil-less Iraq, then you descend to the imbecile or idiot class.

I have noted over the last five years that when there is something vile and evil afoot, the Rove machine gives the media something which is more like a benign tumor than the actual cancer they are covering up. Like they managed to repeal habeas corpus with little effect because they threw the press the red meat of Mark Foley’s sins, something which came from ABC, for God’s sake, which OUGHT to set your hair on fire, because if any network is in the pocket of the Bushitter thugs, ABC is foremost, Fox News notwithstanding.

Sure, Bob Shitfer from CBS plays golf with Botch, but CBS sometimes tries to deliver some actual news, something which Fox seldom does, and which ABC never has done to my knowledge, being totally in the corporate pocket of the Bushitter gang of thugs.

And yes, on occasion the WaSHITon Post puts a nugget of news somewhere in the middle of the paper, but never from Woodward’s sections . . . so what is the reason for the turnaround in this new book? Is Woodward trying to regain his credibility? He won’t with me, obviously, because he is a known liar and fictionalizer—-I’ll bet the farm that George Tenet never said “slam dunk” to the Bush moron. Never. He may have agreed to let Woodward SAY he did, but he never did use that term with respect to anything, for no CIA director can deliver intel with that kind of certainty; there are ALWAYS ramifications.

So beware of the Greek Woodward bearing gifts; his offering may be a diversion or distraction meant to cover up some really vile and evil acts like repealing elections until the threat has passed.

I notice that the “rendering” of the Canadian has caused little stir, even though it is an absolute travesty. And why Syria? Are they not our sworn enemies, particularly since we want to control the Syria-Lebanon pipeline for oil from northern Iraq? Who ordered it, and why? And why is Woodward not being asked about habeas corpus?

The point is that Rice and Bush and everyone else has lied so much that even if they told the absolute truth, no one OUGHT to believe them, so when Woodward, who also has lied like OJ about the Bushitters in the past now appears to be telling the truth, you ought to wonder how the leopard managed to change his spots.

Molly:
Let’s not forget that Woodward is and always has been a Republican (Redford, playing Woodward said so!)  He’s an insider’s insider, like Bob Novak, but he’s got the chops Novak never will have that date back to Watergate.

Therefore, when Woodward says what we all know, it becomes unimpeachable and beyond argument.  And THAT is news. It’s really tough to prove him wrong, and damn near impossible to spin it away from what he clearly says.

It’s like all the students have been arguing about who’s right and who’s wrong and the teacher comes in and settles it.  Like Steven Hawking on Cosmology.

What makes it even more ironic and funnier is that Woodward was actually gamed by Mad King George and his band of Merrie Fascists in Plan of Attack.  MKG came off looking pretty good.  Now while Woodward won’t ADMIT he was gamed (though he was), this book is the one that blows the lid off all that.

Yeah, we all knew everything in it, but now Fox/Pravda and Bill O’Liarly can’t spin or challenge those facts anymore.  THAT is the value of Woodward’s book—the cement.

As for the old snake himself, Henry the K, he’s just as incompetent and immoral as he ever was—and just as wily.  After all, Kissinger was the ONLY major Nixon figure to escape unscathed when the fertilizer hit the air distribution system in Watergate.  How, has always been a mystery to me. (and Woodward was there again in “The Final Days”).

Couldn’t agree more. BTW, Tom Lehrer also invented the Jello shot, and is still, I believe, quite alive…

Yes, Molly, I see that Herr Domino Theorist has returned to proffer some more “strategic introductions” to our deadbeat dictator, Deputy Dubya Bush. Influence peddling by any other name would stink as foul.

As a victim/veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-1972) I’ll never forget those vertical corkscrew takeoffs and landings we had to make at our remote river support base to avoid taking fire from the surrounding jungle treeline. (I understand that our Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, had this same sort of experience sneaking into and out of Baghdad the other day).

Anyway, in January of 1972—the year Henry Kissinger said we had it all “won,” my long-anticipated last day arrived and I found myself sitting out at the end of a corrugated steel runway waiting for the weekly air force plane to come pick me up so I could make my way northward to Saigon where I could process out of Vietnam in three days and go home after eighteen months in the now-defunct Republic of South Vietnam. Due to the low cloud cover, however, the pilot refused to land; so he just circled around above the clouds for awhile and then flew back to his home base, leaving me stranded. Fortunately, an Air America propeller jockey dropped in on a mail delivery and offered me a ride out strapped down to the plywood floor of his little, single engine plane. No thanks to the U.S. Air Force or Henry Kissinger, I finally made it back home.

And what did I find when I got out of the Navy and went back to college? Yes, you guessed it: wealthy South Vietnamese students (of the Bush/Cheney type) safely sequestered out of danger on my CSU Long Beach campus holding “culture night” fund-raisers for their “compatriots” in the National Liberation Front. I don’t suppose Henry Kissinger knew anything about that. Nor did most Americans who stupidly went on believing the same sorry, lying shit that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon had handed them for the last eight years. Nixon even got re-elected that year after Henry Kissinger fraudulently promised “Peace is at hand.” Then came the notoriously vengeful Christmas carpet bombing of Hanoi. You know the rest.

So when I heard that America’s oldest living war criminal had taken to “advising” Dick Cheney monthly in his bunker crypt somewhere, I just had to write some verse to vent my veteran’s vitriol. Call this one:

“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 counsel 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