WH aides on Kissinger's influence with Bush: They only held hands

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while the channeled their inner Nixon . . .

Bush aides minimize Kissinger role

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The New York Times


So in the days since Bob Woodward of The Washington Post disclosed the Kissinger visits in his new book, "State of Denial," White House officials have worked furiously to swat down Woodward's assertion that Kissinger has a "powerful, largely invisible influence on the foreign policy of the Bush administration." Kissinger, they insisted, is just another in a cacophony of voices who, from time to time, have won the president's ear.

Precisely who initiated the visits and when they began are a mystery. The White House will not release dates of the meetings, although one senior administration official, granted anonymity to discuss the private presidential calendar, said Kissinger and Bush have been getting together since before the war in Iraq.

But the former secretary of state and the current president have come to the same conclusion on Iraq: the only exit strategy is to beat back the insurgency. It is a lesson, Woodward asserts, that Kissinger draws from Vietnam, which may be one reason the White House has not advertised his Oval Office sessions.

"The president has a lot of people in and he listens to them, and Dr. Kissinger is one of them," Snow said, adding, "The role is not an extraordinary one."


report: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/05/news/kiss.php


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1. Kissinger - person-non-grata in some countries - wanted for

questioning - he needs to fly over these countries as he travels the rest of the world.

Type Kissinger - milosevich - Eagleburger in Google or your favorite search engine - keep reading down.

While Cheney deals with Khan of Pakistan and has business dealings with Iran while we simultaeously prepare to bomb them, Kissinger had business with Milosevich during the Bosnia area 'war' - according to various 'stories'.

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3. So one war criminal is advising a slew of other war criminals.

NICE!

[EST]

2. Remember the story going round in the mid 70s about

Kissinger-how he broke his leg?

He was taking his morning walk when he got run down by a boat!