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Dec. 31, 2002

Kissinger, Ivins and Indochina
Star-Telegram

Molly Ivins' Dec, 12 column, "Adding insult to injury," was the most outrageous yet. For her, any truth that isn't leftist is a lie.

Ivins recently appeared on A&E's Biography of the Year program, which honored President Bush. She said of the president, "There isn't much there." Coming from her, it was a compliment because it means that he isn't a communist.

Now she has called Henry Kissinger a war criminal. She added a dose of nonsense by tarring all Christians with Nazism. To Ivins I say: Adolf Hitler wasn't a Christian. To lump everything but the kitchen sink into a condemnation of Christianity is ludicrous.

Had we shut down North Vietnam, we wouldn't have this revisionist history that is going on. People like Jane Fonda's ex-husband, Tom Hayden, led protests against the war, and if ever there was a leftist, he was one. I'm sure that Ivins was or would have been in the same loony groups that protested the war, mostly to cover their own skins.

It's typical of a leftist to blame America and anyone else, but not the communists. The Khmer Rouge was a bloody communist organization, and to say that it was Kissinger's fault that it reaped a bloodbath in Cambodia/Laos is a typical communist lie.

Ivins is all over the map, and somebody should hold her accountable. No wonder history is distorted by the likes of her.

Thank heavens that George W. Bush rather than Ivins' buddy Ann Richards won the 1994 Texas gubernatorial race. "Not Much There" Bush hasn't lost since.

Isn't it time for Ivins to retire? Her credibility is worse than the description she tried to hang on Kissinger.

Alan D. Shaffer, Mansfield