Comments on: Kissinger: Military Win In Iraq Impossible

Former Secretary Of State Joins Call For U.S. Talks With Iraq's Neighbors, Including Iran

[observantx]

Will somebody PLEASE take both of Kissinger%u2019s shoes off, pull off his socks and stuff them in his mouth. Please wrap a little duct tape around his head and mouth while you are at it to make sure the socks stay put.

This retread creep has been feeding %u201Cwe can win%u201D drugs to Fearless Leader for months. Now since he has recently found the spotlight again, he is warming to his old persona of worldly policy maker. Now that Iraq has turned completely sour, he is trying to hitch a ride on the reality express. He needs a bucket of cold water thrown on him and the bum%u2019s rush out of the spotlight.

Henry, go home. Make some warm milk. Get good nights sleep. Please leave us alone.

[ourtomorrows]

You conspiracy folk continue to amaze me with your lunacy.

I am equally fascinated by the simpletons (yes simpletons) who continue to insist this is all about oil. If it was only about oil, we would be in a far less dangerous situation. This is about a President who believes he is on a mission to liberate the Middle East and will stop at nothing to see that mission achieved. I fail to understand why people don't get that! We are in a far more dangerous world than one where the US and GB are doing what they have done for a century and trying to get oil. That is part of it but that is not what President Bush is after. Wake up people!

Those of you who continue to underestimate the President and continue to talk about Cheney as the power behind the throne, you are wrong and your view is incredibly dangerous. It is the President who is at the helm folks, he really is and he is on a mission, maybe even as he sees it, a mission from God to bring democracy to the Middle East and he will not give up or give in until he accomplishes that mission. Why don't you people get that? He is as determined to achieve his goals as Reagan was to destroy the USSR.

You can all continue living in your fantasy world of 9/11 conspiracies and power plays for oil and the Vice President pulling the strings, keep living in your fabricated reality because clearly what is really happening is to much for you all to accept.

[feelfree1]

ncolsens,

You appear to be advocating for the mass-murder of a huge number of innocent people; people which we claim to be "liberating", and claim to care about.

Will you take personal responsibility for such an act, or will you hide behind our flag to promote your terrorist proposal of wide-spread indiscriminate mass-murder, from the shadows?

[feelfree1]

ceekuei,

You have touched on a very sensitive and fundamental issue. Well done.

It is undoubtedly not in the interests of the American public, nor of the people around the globe for that matter, for the U.S. to keep wasting billions and blions of U.S. tax dollars, blood, and treasure, in blind welfare support of the repulsive, anti-human, and calamitous policies of Israeli leaders.

Their influence in U.S. politics is grossly disproportionate.

[feelfree1]

emhawks,

Nice list. A few more to add:

Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and of course, Paul Wolfowitz. Tony Bair is almost too obvious to mention.

It is quite a challenge to even select from the worst offenders, in creating a list of current Western war criminals.

The only way to win in Iraq is to either pull out now, or a few well placed nukes in their little country.....remember Hiroshima August 6, 1945? It really works

[pendragon679]

"...when British and then American oil companies literally went in and took over the middle east."

Ted Koppel said it best on this morning's edition of "Face The Nation" when he stated that this is all about OIL. That's right folks, O-I-L. You know, black gold, Texas tea...

Nations outside of the Middle East have been fighting over Persian Gulf oil since WWI, and possibly before. The Gallipoli campaign was largely for oil; the North African campaign in WWII was for control of those massive oil fields; the first Gulf War was for oil; and the current mess is all about OIL. Until we get over our obsession with this toxic fossil fuel & begin to develop viable alternatives, we'll never get out of that quagmire...

[nynative1340]

The Sunnis and Shias hate each other. The only thing they have in common besides their basic Islam religion, is that they also hate Westerners in general and Americans in particular. To understand that, one would have to read a lot of books, but one in particular says a lot. "Endless Enemies" explores our faulty foreign policy since the Eisenhower years.

One only has to know that we toppled a fledgling democracy in 1953 and installed a tyrant: the Shah. But that only intensified the hatred towards the West. That hatred started when British and then American oil companies literally went in and took over the middle east.

Wake up Americans!! The hatred pot has been brewing for a very long time...

[tinker3478]

That's a big 10-4 nynative.

[nynative1340]

No, Ex USMC Sargeant, I did not sleep through the Gulf War. In fact, during that time I was ending my 28 years in the military. Compared to what's going on now in Iraq, chasing Saddam out of Kuwait was hardly a war. Bush 41 should have completed the job by taking Saddam down, but he didn't because he had to smarts to know that it wouldn't be a "slam dunk," and I can't imagine that it would have been any easier then than it is now.

On the other hand, Bush 43, lacking the intelligence (smarts) and foresight that his father had, just charged in, thinking it was going to be a slam dunk, or so he was told by his CIA director.

Considering that the Vietnam and Iraq wars were both started with a lie, both were managed poorly, it's not entirely ironic that both will end with the same outcome.

When you consider that Bush 43 never ran a successful business, this should come as no surprise. Even his years as governor of Texas were not all that successfue. It's sad that, in this great nation, we have to pick our leaders from a handful of lackeys.