Sometimes the sheer stupidity of the Republican Party is amazing. And they never...never...NEVER can admit a mistake even when thousands of lives are lost because they can't admit a mistake.

For all those Democrats who believed that we were getting ourselves into another Vietnam when we invaded Iraq, here is the proof: Bush is getting advice from Henry Kissinger, the architect of our great failure in Vietnam. From Salon.com [0]:

September 29,2006 | NEW YORK -- Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy," author and journalist Bob Woodward said.

The Washington Post editor's third book on the Bush administration, "State of Denial," comes out next week.

In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," Woodward said that U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes.

"The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better.'"

He said Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been telling Bush and Cheney that "in Iraq, he declared very simply, 'Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'"

While pretty much our entire military and intelligence community is waking up to what many of us predicted years ago, that invading Iraq has made us LESS safe, has HELPED al-Qaeda, and is a waste of human life and American money, Bush is talking to the man who made the exact same mistakes in Vietnam. And it is no big surprise that Kissinger is telling Bush the exact same crap he told Nixon. Will we be conducting "secret bombings" of Iran next? Will we be making statements like "it was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it?"

Henry Kissinger is the Ghost of Failed American Policies Past and should be taken as a sign of what NOT to do, not an advisor on what we should do.

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