Posts Made By: Tom Rodstrom

Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism

A powerful, largely invisible influence on Bush's Iraq policy was former secretary of state Kissinger.

"Of the outside people that I talk to in this job," Vice President Cheney told me in the summer of 2005, "I probably talk to Henry Kissinger more than I talk to anybody else. He just comes by and, I guess at least once a month, Scooter [his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby] and I sit down with him."

The president also met privately with Kissinger every couple of months, making him the most regular and frequent outside adviser to Bush on foreign affairs.

Kissinger sensed wobbliness everywhere on Iraq, and he increasingly saw it through the prism of the Vietnam War. For Kissinger, the overriding lesson of Vietnam is to stick it out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293_pf.html

Jim Babcock said:

Have you heard that Bush is giving advice to Hillary?

http://www.examiner.com/a-953145~Bush_quietly_advising_Hillary_Clinton__top_Democrats.html

Isn't this bizarre? She is the smartest human ever and already has her adoring STUPERHERO husband/ex-President to give her advice (two Clintons for the price of one we were told). Why would she need input from a shrub, especially a neo-con shrub? Doesn't she know how evil he is? He is just about making money for his rich oil buddies and killing our children. Right?

On the other hand she may be just demonstrating how open minded she is. :S

Jim Babcock said:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RUJEL00&show_article=1

The Democrats love to talk about balanced budgets and that everything needs to be funded as you go. Forget this stuff that we hear from them about putting the debt on the back of our children and grandchildren. This is typical liberalism; tell a constituency that they are getting money for free. It is commonly known as buying votes. Hillary is trying to create a constituency of young voters who will be slaves to the Dem Party even before they can vote. Those that will get the money will be paying themselves, plus a little extra for the union government bureaucrats. Pure socialism.