[neverdem]

I saw the story on the news tonight, courtesy of NBC's Brian Williams. I found the AP article after putting Kissinger's name into Google News. This story is instructive for at least a couple of reasons.

Nixon was elected in 1968 on a promise to end the Vietnam War with honor after the dems led us into that quagmire.

George Wallace's third party candidacy took enough votes from Humphrey that Nixon won.

This is a lousy story for Memorial Day Weekend, but it shouldn't be ignored. I wish someone else posted this story. If it's any consolation, I was there. My ETS was 23 Jun 72.

[Bahbah]

Oh, neverdem, do I even want to read this?

[Paladin2]

Kissenger needs to be keelhauled.

[satchmodog9]

wow

[GodGunsGuts]

Kissinger has always been a traitor:

Henry Kissinger played the key role in furthering Soviet aims. Israeli journalist Matti Golan reported that, during the first few days of the Yom Kippur War, while the Communist governments of Yugoslavia, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, and the Soviet Union were resupplying Egypt and Syria,4 Kissinger had delayed the emergency shipment of U.S. arms to Israel. Then, once Israel had regained its military balance and scored decisive victories, he went behind the Israelis’ backs and negotiated a ceasefire directly with the Soviets. Nor was this difficult for him; as Soviet ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin later revealed, the Soviets had quietly appointed Kissinger as their representative at the same time that he was representing the United States.5 Kissinger then pressured Israel into accepting the ceasefire, which returned portions of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt.

http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_iswr1_shadow.htm

[GodGunsGuts]

...and Nixon was NO conservative--GGG

[edpc]

I used to not like Kissinger for his droning, croaking, hypnotizing delivery. He has Ben Stein's deadpan delivery beaten by light-years. Now, I have a legitimate reason to dislike him.

[txzman]

Dr. Strangelove indeed.

[Fiji Hill]

During his run for the presidency in 1976, Ronald Reagan alluded to Kissinger's remark to Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, made around 1971, that "the day of the Soviet Union has arrived," and that Washington should be satisfied with being "second place" behind Moscow. It seems like the Mid-Century Metternich was rather bearish on America at this time.

[Williams]

There is little more to this story than Kissinger shooting the breeze with the Chinese leader. Please don't be fooled by misleading headlines and fraudulent history. We lost South Vietnam after Watergate because teh liberal democrats in Congress prevented President Ford from even giving the South Vietnamese equipment, after the N Viets launched an all out tank assault in violation of the treaty.

We did NOT lose Vietnam because either Ford, Nixon or Kissinger had given the North a "green light" to invade after we withdrew.

The liberal press will always pretend "we" "lost" Vietnam when in fact the liberals abandoned our ally.

My only criticism of Kissinger is it sounds like he was taking the Chicoms way too seriously and talking candidly with them. Let's also remember China fougt a war with Vietnam. The USSR was N Vietnam's real backer. Kissinger was not handing Southeast Asia over to the chicoms, and there was nothing wrong with what he said.

[Fiji Hill]

George Wallace's third party candidacy took enough votes from Humphrey that Nixon won.

I tend to believe that it was Nixon who was hurt by the Wallace vote. After all, the Alabama governor took several states that had gone to Goldwater in 1964.

[labette]

So whaddaya think?

Was Kissinger speaking on his own?
Or was he simply being Nixon's button man?

We could also assume that NBC and others would like to make treason more commonplace, and thus more acceptable.

[tet68]

Kissinger ranks right up there with McNamara in my book.

[TexasTransplant]

Congress & Senate = CUT and RUN

Spineless ten, Spineless now

Place just slightly more hope in the Congress and the Senate than you would in the UN or the ACLU for they are cut from the same cloth.

TT

[dfwgator]

The irony is that the ChiComs and Vietnamese Communists ended up fighting each other.

[rlmorel]

If true, I am speechless.

One of the most disgraceful stabs in the back our country has ever arranged, and to even consider the possibility it may have been done in this way make me feel nauseous.

[Enterprise]

If true, Kissinger should have been saying this publicly BEFORE all those kids died, not AFTER! But then, maybe Kissinger has the same ethical standars as Mike Nifong. (And puleeeeeze don't harass me with obvious statements like Kissinger wasn't in power when the war started!)

[kittymyrib]

Kissinger also believed that the US would never be able to overcome the USSR. The only reason people considered him an expert was because of his accent and the fact that he ran in the right liberal circles in NYC.

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for posting. just saw this on yahoo with a couple other titles as well

>>Kissinger's notes on communism released<<

on the home page and

>>Kissinger papers: U.S. OK with takeover<<

on the article page.

Here's a pic or two.

Dr. Henry Kissinger, left, U.S. Presidential National Security Adviser, shakes hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China at their meeting at Government Guest House in Peking, China, July 9, 1971. As the Vietnam War dragged on Kissinger told Zhou in 1972 that 'if we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina.' (AP Photo/File)

[Finalapproach29er]

This is why only Americans by birth should President. IMO

What a disgusting, soulless bastard.

[fso301]

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