Richard Nixon's Close, Close Friend is Back
"The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer."Henry Kissinger
One of the revelations in Woodward's book is that Henry Kissinger is giving advice on a regular basis to the Bush Administration on their conduct of our disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That REALLY makes me think we're going to bomb Iran eventually too. These guys are insane. All you have to do is watch Dr. Strangelove and everything will become clear to you. Or perhaps the following will help.
On Kissinger's creation of the Plumbers, who broke into the DNC's office at the Watergate:
"It was the leading Anglo-American financier factions who decided to dump Nixon, and availed themselves of the pre-existing Watergate affair in order to reach their goal. The financiers were able to implement their decision all the more easily thanks to the numerous operatives of the intelligence community who had been embedded within the Plumbers from the moment of their creation in response to an explicit demand coming from George Bush's personal mentor, Henry Kissinger...
Preponderant power during the last years of Nixon and during the Ford years was in any case exercised by Henry Kissinger, the de facto president, about whose pedigree and strategy something has been said above... in retrospect there can be no doubt that Watergate was a coup d'etat, a creeping and muffled cold coup in the institutions which has extended its consequences over almost two decades. The roots of the administrative fascism of the Reagan and Bush years are to be found in the institutional tremors and changed power relations set off by the banal farce of the Watergate break-in...
The Plumbers were created at the demand of Henry Kissinger, who told Nixon that something had to be done to stop leaks in the wake of the 'Pentagon Papers' affair of 1971. But if the Plumbers were called into existence by Kissinger, they were funded through a mechanism set up by Kissinger clone George Bush. A salient fact about the White House Special Investigations Unit (or Plumbers) of 1971-72 is that the money used to finance it was provided by George Bush's business partner and lifelong intimate friend, Bill Liedtke, the president of Pennzoil... Cancelling the Patman probe meant that there would be no investigation of Watergate before the 1972 Presidential election.
The Washington Post virtually ended reference to the Watergate affair, and spoke of Nixon's opponent, George McGovern, as unqualified for the Presidency.The Republican Party was handed another four year Administration. Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller and Ford were the gainers."
-- "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Kissinger is a proponent of "Realipolitik" - as defined in Wikipedia:
Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and Politik ("politics")) is a term used to describe politics based on strictly practical rather than idealistic notions, and practiced without any "sentimental illusions."
Oh, if only he'd use that philosophy to squash the "optimism" and belief that you can bomb people into democracy that are the driving forces of their policies...
Lastly, Henry, in his own words, waxing eloquent about Tricky Dick over the latter's casket:
"Richard Nixon's foreign policy goals were long-range. And he pursued them without regard to domestic political consequences. When he considered our nation's interests at stake, he dared confrontations, despite the imminence of elections and also in the midst of the worst crisis of his life. And he bore, if with some pain, the disapproval of longtime friends and allies over relaxing tensions with China and the Soviet Union. He drew strength from a conviction. He often expressed to me the price for doing things halfway is no less than for doing it completely. So we might as well do them properly. That's Richard Nixon's greatest accomplishment. It was as much moral as it was political -- to lead from strength at a moment of apparent weakness, to husband the nation's resilience and, thus, to lay the basis for victory in the Cold War...One of the revelations in Woodward's book is that Henry Kissinger is giving advice on a regular basis to the Bush Administration on their conduct of our disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That REALLY makes me think we're going to bomb Iran eventually too. These guys are insane. All you have to do is watch Dr. Strangelove and everything will become clear to you. Or perhaps the following will help.
On Kissinger's creation of the Plumbers, who broke into the DNC's office at the Watergate:
"It was the leading Anglo-American financier factions who decided to dump Nixon, and availed themselves of the pre-existing Watergate affair in order to reach their goal. The financiers were able to implement their decision all the more easily thanks to the numerous operatives of the intelligence community who had been embedded within the Plumbers from the moment of their creation in response to an explicit demand coming from George Bush's personal mentor, Henry Kissinger...
Preponderant power during the last years of Nixon and during the Ford years was in any case exercised by Henry Kissinger, the de facto president, about whose pedigree and strategy something has been said above... in retrospect there can be no doubt that Watergate was a coup d'etat, a creeping and muffled cold coup in the institutions which has extended its consequences over almost two decades. The roots of the administrative fascism of the Reagan and Bush years are to be found in the institutional tremors and changed power relations set off by the banal farce of the Watergate break-in...
The Plumbers were created at the demand of Henry Kissinger, who told Nixon that something had to be done to stop leaks in the wake of the 'Pentagon Papers' affair of 1971. But if the Plumbers were called into existence by Kissinger, they were funded through a mechanism set up by Kissinger clone George Bush. A salient fact about the White House Special Investigations Unit (or Plumbers) of 1971-72 is that the money used to finance it was provided by George Bush's business partner and lifelong intimate friend, Bill Liedtke, the president of Pennzoil... Cancelling the Patman probe meant that there would be no investigation of Watergate before the 1972 Presidential election.
The Washington Post virtually ended reference to the Watergate affair, and spoke of Nixon's opponent, George McGovern, as unqualified for the Presidency.The Republican Party was handed another four year Administration. Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller and Ford were the gainers."
-- "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Kissinger is a proponent of "Realipolitik" - as defined in Wikipedia:
Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and Politik ("politics")) is a term used to describe politics based on strictly practical rather than idealistic notions, and practiced without any "sentimental illusions."
Oh, if only he'd use that philosophy to squash the "optimism" and belief that you can bomb people into democracy that are the driving forces of their policies...
Lastly, Henry, in his own words, waxing eloquent about Tricky Dick over the latter's casket:
So let us now say goodbye to our gallant friend. He stood on pinnacles that dissolved in the precipice. He achieved greatly and he suffered deeply. But he never gave up. In his solitude, he envisaged a new international order that would reduce lingering enmities, strengthen historic friendships, and give new hope to mankind -- a vision where dreams and possibilities conjoined."
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it - but why do all of us have to share their leaky, sinking boat?
posted by dcnative @ 9:08 PM
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