"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."

[kpete]

QOTD: Henry Kissinger

by digby

From the new Wikileaks release "The Kissinger cables"

KISSINGER:

"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."

This seems like a good day to remind everyone of this little discussed tid-bit from Bob Woodward's State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III:

A powerful, largely invisible influence on Bush's Iraq policy was former secretary of state Kissinger.

"Of the outside people that I talk to in this job," Vice President Cheney told me in the summer of 2005, "I probably talk to Henry Kissinger more than I talk to anybody else. He just comes by and, I guess at least once a month, Scooter [his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby] and I sit down with him."

The president also met privately with Kissinger every couple of months, making him the most regular and frequent outside adviser to Bush on foreign affairs.

Kissinger sensed wobbliness everywhere on Iraq, and he increasingly saw it through the prism of the Vietnam War. For Kissinger, the overriding lesson of Vietnam is to stick it out.

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/wikileaks_dumps_1_7_million_kissinger_cables/
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/qotd-henry-kissinger.html