Woodward: Kissinger Advising Bush
Sep 29, 1:41 PM (ET)

(AP) Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward appears on CNN's "Larry King Live," Monday,...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy," author and journalist Bob Woodward said.

The Washington Post editor's third book on the Bush administration, "State of Denial," comes out next week.

In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," Woodward said that U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes.

"The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better.'"

He said Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been telling Bush and Cheney that "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."

Woodward's 537-page book describes the administration as beset by infighting, according to The New York Times, which obtained an advance copy and reported on its contents Friday.

The 537-page book is based on interviews with administration leaders, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. However, sources are not always named, and neither the president nor Vice President Dick Cheney agreed to interviews, the book says, according to the Times.

Asked about the book, the White House on Thursday night dismissed it, telling The Associated Press it didn't contain anything new. During a briefing Friday at a NATO meeting in Slovenia, Rumsfeld declined comment on the book, saying he hadn't read it.

Buy Your Traveling Papers, Americka!
"...Advanced enrollment for the National Registered Traveler Program began Thursday. "It's like going through easy pass on the freeway," said Reggie Baumgardner, the airport's security manager.
...Passengers in the program will still have to go through the screening process, but they won't be subject to random searches. Other benefits, like not having to take off items of clothing during screening, are under currently under consideration by the Transportation Security Administration."
So for $80 you can bypass the random searches, and humiliation? That would be a bargain except I'm so old, I remember when there was a constitution that gave me those rights for free.

Foreign companies buying U.S. roads, bridges that taxpayers built
"sure, a one-time payment will fix all of Amerika's problems forever- right?
I'm pretty sure the only way we got our fathers and grandfathers generation to go along with a "toll road" in the first place, was that the general idea should be to charge a toll until the road was paid for. Then it would revert to a regular road.
Who knew most of their children or grand children would grow up so stupid, that they don't understand the meaning of your country not owning it's own roads? And would never remember, or care, how to hold it's government to the original deal in the first place.
The political machine can always count on the total, binding ignorance of the masses...Is there anywhere in the world that doesn't' hate me because of where I'm from? Can I get in my car right now and drive there before we cannibalize our entire country from within? "

I'll Drink To That!
"...Al Gore. I’m not much into polar bears, but this heat wave has me thinking the man might be on to something.

My fellow Republicans, it is time, as Madison said in Federalist 76, to “Hand over the tiller of governance, that others may fuck things up for a change.”

(Or was it Federalist 78?)..."

This article from Chris Hayes explains what in general I've been feeling and writing about for a long time now.
I don't know what's worse- the rights exploitation of power, or the left's total ignorance of what to do with power.
We had Clinton and prosperity for 8 years, yet all some will still talk about is his cock.
Amerika has a sick fetish for scandal, and the treatment of Clinton proved it. Left and Right both sat spellbound in front of the television as we destroyed ourselves during those years.
It's wrong to tear down Bush, he is still our (lousy) president. It was wrong to tear down Clinton.
You don't have to believe in God to understand that such counterproductive behavior will eventually destroy yourself. We reap our own rewards, and our country must now eat the sour fruit we've grown for ourselves.
Will we ever learn the simple lesson that no matter how you spin it, 2 or more "wrongs" can never make a "right"?

ABC Airs 9/11 Series Despite Criticism
(At least ABC didn't make it a reality show.)
For the ten millionth time, it's Blame Clinton.
Who would want to make, let alone watch a "dramatization" of what happened on 9/11?
The wounds and repercussions of 9/11 are still too fresh and open to be exposed to this kind of "entertainment", for anyone with any taste or decency on either side of the political row.
At least ABC didn't make it a reality show. There could have been contestants competing for a chance to fly a computer simulated airplane into simulated building, and then the contestants could have sat around and tried to convince one another that each had the bigger deathwish for God, and that they, not the other contestants should have the seat on the simulated plane.
Just when I think that television can't sink any lower, there is goes- further down the drain...

Nice idea. But everything will always be Clintons fault. Everything.This too.
"..."This has to be announced on their watch, using their voice," he said. "There's a great urgency about this: we only have two months left to educate all Americans about how the Bush deficits are literally destroying America's credit."

Hell Has Frozen Over- An Apology From A Bush Voter

"...In 2000, I was a McCain guy. I wasn't sure about the Texas Governor. He had name recognition and a lot of money behind him, but other than that? What? Still, I was sick of all the Clinton shenanigans and the thought of President Gore was… unthinkable. So, GWB became my guy.

For the first few months he was just flubbing along like most new Presidents, no great shakes, but no disasters either. He cut taxes and I like tax cuts..."

Jeezus- this guy makes me sick. What was so unthinkable about four more years of peace and prosperity under Al Gore?
And I've never been SO FUCKING SICK of anything as I am of hearing about TAX CUTS! You got what you wanted, no new taxes. Now see what that means? Higher everything else.
You republicans understand the cost of things, but you never seem to understand the value of anything.
And just so you know motherfucker, the system is NOT BROKEN!
It's simple old human evil and corruption that's to blame. If you take away the evil men and women at the command, the "broken" system will start working again. Broken system my ass.

Better Be careful, The Last Time We Made Fun of Someone This Much, His Ass Got Elected President.

I'm all for political satire, especially if it's funny. But the whole "take one verbal misstep and make or ruin a carrier out of it" is bullshit. Have fun folks, sure. But remember when Al Gore "invented the internet"? While he never said it that way, by the time folks we're done with it- he had indeed invented the internet and it's now a common joke.
My point is, it sucks when "they" do it to "us"- and it still sucks almost as much when we do it to them. And no, I'm not defending Senator George Allen. He's probably a real fucktard. But I suppose my questions would be- Has he said anything stupid since? Does he have a record of saying stupid shit ( not like macaca, like stupid political shit like the rest of the GOP), do we need to give him all this free publicity?
It's not that funny when they do it, how is it that funny when we do it? Besides, it's lazy.
Lazy politics, lazy satire.
We have our country and the world devastated by the GOP and it's policies, as proof that we are right, not them. Are we sure this is the "ball we want to run with"?

Winning isn't the main thing, it's the only thing.

"...That's when your masks fell off — you and your neighbors and your friends. More than half the country, in fact, and more of you all the time, souring on the war and the people who've been running it.

You may have tried to pass yourself off as good, loyal Americans — Democrats, Republicans (yes, even Republicans have been raising questions lately), independents. But that's when you showed the world who you really are, Mr. and Mrs. Appeaser of Fascists.

The nerve of you!

You think it might have been a good idea to send enough troops to do the job? And enough of the right kinds of equipment to keep those troops safe?

You're a defeatist..."
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A few years ago I was the only person writing such rants on the internet. The `net back then was filled with folks glorifiying GW and his war, or soft-sell critics who pointed out what a mistake it was going to be.
I've had a few screwed-over former republicans in private admit to me that the main problem with our country is the president. When questioned further they confessed that the main part of the last election (in that republican's opinion) was less about agreeing with GW, and more about simply shutting up democrats. Yes, in a candid moment, a republican admitted what we all know already; They just couldn't stand to see the democrats win! So at ANY cost to the country, and at any cost of life, even though they know they've cost America it's credibility and standing, they proceed with this war. And it's business as usual. You fuckers.

A note to all republicans:
OK, you got what you wanted. A war without end. Keep up the winning streak.

from ThePatriotNews.Com
"...They state their case in stark either/or rhetoric -- "Choose life over death," for example. They raise money for transportation, bail and lawyers. But I have not heard of a single preacher asking for money to offer direct financial assistance to these mothers in raising an unplanned, and perhaps unwanted child. Nor have I heard of a campaign to guarantee decent adoptive homes for these children. Christians are eternal critics, but seldom offer practical solutions."
Doc!

21st Century Amerika:
You've still got the constitutional right to free speech and protection from search and siezure. But no constitutional right to fly. ALL your rights seem to end at the airport gates. Gladly given up by most sheeple, I'm afraid.

Note to Republicans:
Once more for the record,
You don't have to give up God.
Just give up your fucked up, hate-mongering, double-standard filled, smear the other side, pundits never telling the truth, red-white-and-blue leave our troops to sweat and die in the field, we cried for the war but now we feel like suckers, style Politics. Religion is fine.
Oh yeah, don't decide to have collective amnesia about the fact that you self-rightously screwed over the previous president for a blow job, but continue to try and explain away every flaw and mistake that the current president has.
Isn't admitting that your wrong, always the next step in "recovery"?

"LBJ Night Before JFK Assassination: "Those SOB's Will Never Embarrass Me Again"

..."the night before the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Dallas tycoons, FBI moguls and organized crime kingpins - emerging from the conference to tell his mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown that "those SOB's" would never embarrass him again. It's a jaw-dropping deposition and it's the biggest JFK smoking gun there is - despite the fact that it has received little media attention."

File this under- "stuff that most leftwingwackos already know"
But it's good that with our troops dying and our country nearly dead we still have time to rehash these chestnuts. Face it, the coup has already happened. And they got away with it.