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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. Oktober 2006 / Time Line October 2, 2006
Version 3.51. Oktober 2006, 3. Oktober 2006
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10/02/2006
Den britiske regering beslutter at sende tropper til Irak for at 'beskytte
olieinstallationer ved Abadan', 1914.
10/02/2006
Mohandas
Gandhis fødselsdag mindes, bl.a. i Gandhis
Plæne på Nørrebro i København.
10/02/2006
Oct. 2-6 Missile Technology Control Regime plenary meeting.
Copenhagen, Denmark
10/02/2006
KISSINGER'S "SALTED PEANUTS" AND THE IRAQ WAR
National Security Archive Posts Original Document Cited in Bob
Woodward's "State of Denial"
Washington, DC, October 2, 2006 - For understandable reasons, the
George W. Bush administration has shunned comparisons between the
war in Iraq and the Vietnam War. But in his latest book, State of
Denial, Bob Woodward writes that Henry Kissinger, the former
secretary of state--and a secret (and frequent) consultant to the
current president--has made the parallel explicit to the White
House.
According to Woodward, Kissinger recently gave a Bush aide a copy
of a memo he wrote in 1969 arguing against troop withdrawals from
Southeast Asia, an issue as salient four decades ago as it is
now.
Kissinger's September 10, 1969, advice to President Nixon famously
characterized withdrawals from Vietnam as "salted peanuts" to which
the American people would become addicted.
The National Security Archive has obtained an original copy of the
memo and today is posting it on its Web site along with commentary
by Archive Senior Fellow and noted Vietnam expert John Prados, who
recently edited a major collection of declassified documents on the
Vietnam War. The commentary provides some historical context for
the document and draw parallels and distinctions between the
situations then and now.
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