CNN's Blitzer reveals Kissinger met with Pope in Rome last Week.....

[KoKo]

NOTE: I heard this incredible exchange between Blitzer and Kissinger yesterday morning on CNN's Late Edition. I just got the transcript of the show where Blitzer confronts Kissinger in an odd exchange. Is Kissinger sharing our foreign policy with the Pope? Is he asking for advice? And check out where Blitzer reveals that Kissinger and the Pope have known each other for a long time...meeting together because they were both German born and then Blitzer snarks at BRZEZINSKI making the point that he had met with the Polish born John Paul II. Why would Blitzer make those comments? I believe Kissinger is Jewish...so they would hardly be discussing religion. :shrug:

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KISSINGER: But it is without doubt an extremely complicated situation. What we need is a bipartisan national strategy on these issues. It is a very complex problem. It has turned out to be more complicated than the administration expected at the beginning or could expect at the beginning. And therefore, we have to define the direction in which we can move and carry it out. But there isn't any quick gimmick by which it can be solved.

BLITZER: Dr. Kissinger, we have to leave it right there. We're out of time. But a quick -- I want to put a picture up on the screen. You were in Rome this week at the Vatican. There it is, a picture of Dr. Henry Kissinger and Pope Benedict XVI. You had an audience with the pontiff. How did that go, briefly? And did you discuss the issue that's come up, his critical comments, if you will, about Islam that's caused so much of a stir in the Muslim world?

KISSINGER: Look, Wolf, you know that it is not appropriate to discuss the substance of a papal audience on television. I've had the privilege of conversations with the Pope when he was cardinal. And I found him then and now a man of great profundity. BLITZER: Only appropriate that the German-born Henry Kissinger would have an audience with the German-born pontiff. Just as the Polish former national security adviser often met with the Polish pontiff, John Paul. Is that right, Dr. Brzezinski?

BRZEZINSKI: Correct.

BLITZER: All right. Good to have both of you on "Late Edition" as always. Thanks to both of you for coming in.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/01/le.01.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. yech.........

[ShortnFiery]

2. Holy Cow!

This is getting way too Bizarro!



Both these men hail from Germany. :scared:

[donsu]

3. two nazi meeting for for a tate a tate

or however it's spelled