Trendsetter me

I guess The Guardian has an article referring Kissinger & Co.'s influence on the White House. I see Atrios and Josh are blogging about the old fart now. Geez, I'm such a trendsetter.

Ok, actually I'm just an old broad who's lived through it all and knew the minute he reared his 200 lb. head that he was busy fucking things up again. He whispered his foul breath in Nixon's ear and dragged us deeper and deeper into the quagmire of Vietnam, now he's fogging up Bush's brain, as if it isn't foggy enough already. Good grief, what a pair, Kissinger and Bush. No, what a threesome, Kissinger, Nixon and Bush. There's a special place reserved for all three in the ninth level of Dante's Inferno, I hope.

Oh, and while I'm at it, this bullshit about "political will" Kissinger's turning Bush's head with has been echoing around the media attached to a myth. I've heard several times that if Roosevelt, Lincoln, etc., had listened to "polls", that is, the people, they would have ended their wars, blah, blah. That's shit. Lies. Fabrications. Go back and read your history, folks. Don't get it from talking heads. They lie, and they think a person can lie about history like lying about having whole wheat toast for breakfast instead of a doughnut.

Of course, they can if you insist on remaining ignorant and gullible. Don't.

UPDATE: Check out James Wolcott's post and how it dovetails nicely with silly bit above.

Mr. Kissinger

Mr. Kissinger, it's time to go home and tend your garden. Putter, plant, weed, play with your grandchildren, if you have any. Just go home. Thank you for your service, which I am old enough to remember totally sucked, but thank you for your service just the same. Just go home.

A little while ago, I watched Mr. Kissinger being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer. The dottering old fool is dottering foolishly. Since, according to Bob Woodward, Mr. Kissinger is advising the White House again, God help us, there is no wonder why they are so screwed up.

Mr. Kissinger, you told Wolfie that Vietnam was a conventional war and that is one thing that makes it a different type of war than the war in Iraq which is a guerrilla war.

Vietnam. A conventional war.

Mr. Kissinger, have you lost your fucking mind? Vietnam was this country's first unconventional war. Vietnam was nothing if not a guerrilla war.

Were there massive armies lined up on a field who began fighting on cue and stopped on cue? Uh, no. Were there batteries of artillery and tanks firing on one another across a battlefield. Uh, no. Mr. Kissinger, that is what conventional war is and has been throughout history.

You never understood what the heck was going on in Vietnam from day one to the final day, so I suppose I should not be surprised that you still do not. I thought that time and reflection might bring some enlightenment to you, but I was obviously over optimistic.

Do us a favor, Mr. Kissinger. Go home. And shut up.