Is that Kissinger at the Afghan Donors Conference?

[TimMooring]

It's in Germany and Karzai was speaking (CSPAN).. The camera panned the room and I thought i recognized the him at the table. What the hell is he doing there? Is he in an official capacity? Shades of Vietnam. Is there a better recipe for failure? What about a carpet bombers conference. I hope he gets arrested while he's in Europe.

[papau]

1. Kissinger has become Cheney's favorite advisor in last 4 months!

good to see all the thieves and killers back together again!

:grr:

[bobthedrummer]

2. Some of us will not forget that Henry Kissinger served in US Army

units that recruited Nazis.

Kissinger served in the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) during WWII, after the war he stayed in W. Germany, he was assigned to the 970th CIC Detachment (later known as 66th CIC Detachment)
"whose functions included support for the recruitment of ex-Nazi intelligence officers for anti-Soviet operations inside the Soviet bloc."
(p. 26; "The Price of Power:Kissinger in the Nixon White House";Seymour Hersh; Summit Books 1983)

Kissinger retained ties to military intelligence as a Reserve officer while attending Harvard as an undergrad in 1947.

As a graduate student in 1950 Kissinger took a part-time job as a consultant in the DoD's Operations Research Office
"That unit, under the direct control of the JCS, conducted highly classified studies on such topics as the utilization of former German operatives and Nazi partisan supporters in CIA clandestine activities.

In 1952, Kissinger was named a consultant to the director of the Psychological Strategy Board, an operating arm of the NSC for covert psychological and paramilitary operations."
(p.27; "The Price of Power").

So, he's back in Germany, he's been there before.:grr:

[TimMooring]

3. Black Adder III "The Witch Smeller Pursuivant"

Do you you know it? The camera pans: "Do you see this son of satan anywhere in this courtroom?" passing right over the spitting image of satan - with horns and everything. Next they'll be doing the Cialis "We are the champions of the world" theme song. The clock is melting and running down the wall.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Not a Black Adder fan, but I've been an anti-fascist since I was 15.

I'm 54 now. My father, his brother and a maternal uncle all fought against fascists and imperial militarists in WWII.

Right after that some folks secretly recruited Nazis and gave them identities and jobs as Americans in national security battling godless communism in the Cold War. Real Nazis found a political home in the RW of the Republican Party.

Today we are seeing the results of that betrayal imo.

[TimMooring]

5. That's why I get a little upset about repect for the flag.

It does mean something. We are the same age. My father was a navy pilot in WWII and my grandfather was in the trenches of France in WWI. I'm old fashioned enough to believe that nothing falls in your lap. People have fought and died when the cause was worthy. I know that many of our soldiers are being heavily conflicted right now. Many will suffer mental problems and depression. A private anquish that others will not be able to understand or share.

BA is a satirical comedy with the english commedian Rowan Atkinson. It leap frogs through history with BA I - and the WitchSmeller episode taking place during the reign of Richard the III and the great plague. Not to everyone's taste but its known for an irreverant historical accuracy.