Thursday, February 01, 2007

Deja Vu All Over Again

Dana Milbank - Wherever a Senator's Question Leads, Kissinger Gamely Follows - washingtonpost.com: "Wherever a Senator's Question Leads, Kissinger Gamely Follows

By Dana Milbank
Thursday, February 1, 2007; A02

So now it can be told: President Bush has a secret plan to end the war in Iraq.

Henry Kissinger, who as Richard Nixon's secretary of state learned something about secret plans, went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to argue that Bush, too, has such a proposal.

'I am convinced, but I cannot base it on any necessary evidence right now,' Kissinger told the senators, 'that the president will want to move toward a bipartisan consensus' to stabilize Iraq through diplomacy.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was suspicious of such assurances. 'Is there any place that you're familiar with where the administration has articulated this strategy?' he asked.

'I don't know any place where the administration has articulated this particular strategy,' the octogenarian diplomat admitted. But he added: 'From my acquaintances with some of the people, I think it is possible that they will come to this strategy...'"

Why is anyone listening to this gnome? How many times do you get to be wrong before people start-- oh never mind. No one could reach the Kristol standard of wrongness; well, except maybe Darth C.

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