Bob Woodward's New Book; Henry Kissinger's New War
The new book by Woodward, "State of Denial" confirms what most people have thought about the Iraq War. Things are getting worse and not better in Iraq. It also confirms that there was no pre-war planning for how to set Iraq on a democratic track after the invasion.
What makes Woodward's book the most credible of all that have been written, however, is that he had access to all the actual participants, including Rummy, Rice, Cheney and others. Most importantly, he had access to the Pentagon, where generals spoke candidly about what a terrible job Rumsfeld has done.
The biggest scoop in the book? Not the ghost, but the actual, Henry Kissinger is back. He has secretly encouraged Cheney and Bush to keep fighting (not that they needed much). He's fighting the Vietnam War he lost 30 years ago over again. The result is that we're losing again, and our kids are dying again, thanks, in part, to him.
You remember Vietnam. Henry negotiated such a great peace deal that we had to airlift our employees off the roof of the American embassy as the North Vietnamese entered the embassy grounds. He got the Nobel Peace Prize for that piece of handiwork.
I have wondered why the pro-war rhetoric of the Iraq War is so similar to the rhetoric of the hawks during the Vietnam War. Now I know. Kissinger's involved.
"Vietnamization" was the propaganda slogan used back in Kissinger's days as Nixon's Secretary of State. It meant that as the South Vietnamese army was trained and took over the fighting, the US would withdraw our troops.
Sound familiar? Vietnamization has been repackaged as "we will stand down when the Iraqis are ready to stand up". Get ready for another airlift off an embassy roof. If there is one real war criminal in the United States it is Henry Kissinger. And he is a serial killer, of our children.
What makes Woodward's book the most credible of all that have been written, however, is that he had access to all the actual participants, including Rummy, Rice, Cheney and others. Most importantly, he had access to the Pentagon, where generals spoke candidly about what a terrible job Rumsfeld has done.
The biggest scoop in the book? Not the ghost, but the actual, Henry Kissinger is back. He has secretly encouraged Cheney and Bush to keep fighting (not that they needed much). He's fighting the Vietnam War he lost 30 years ago over again. The result is that we're losing again, and our kids are dying again, thanks, in part, to him.
You remember Vietnam. Henry negotiated such a great peace deal that we had to airlift our employees off the roof of the American embassy as the North Vietnamese entered the embassy grounds. He got the Nobel Peace Prize for that piece of handiwork.
I have wondered why the pro-war rhetoric of the Iraq War is so similar to the rhetoric of the hawks during the Vietnam War. Now I know. Kissinger's involved.
"Vietnamization" was the propaganda slogan used back in Kissinger's days as Nixon's Secretary of State. It meant that as the South Vietnamese army was trained and took over the fighting, the US would withdraw our troops.
Sound familiar? Vietnamization has been repackaged as "we will stand down when the Iraqis are ready to stand up". Get ready for another airlift off an embassy roof. If there is one real war criminal in the United States it is Henry Kissinger. And he is a serial killer, of our children.
posted by Marshall Darts at
10:29 AM
1 Comments:
Add Henry's name to the list of Republican left-overs (rewarmed for the Shrub presidency): Cheney and Rumsfeld. Wouldn't the world be so much better off is Shrub had started with fresh ingredients? As I think about it, Rice's specialty was the Soviet Union. Perhaps that is the reason she can't quite make it into the 21st century, either. Good post. Thanks.
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Carol Gee, at 10/02/2006 7:22 PM
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