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Kissinger docs released offer some interesting insights

May 27, 2006 3:51AM PDT
'75 Kissinger memo discounted Israel

...The United States reached out to hostile Arabs three decades ago with an offer to work toward making Israel a "small friendly country" of no threat to its neighbors and with an assurance to Iraq that the U.S. had stopped backing Kurdish rebels in the north.

"We can't negotiate about the existence of Israel," then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told his Iraqi counterpart in a rare high-level meeting, "but we can reduce its size to historical proportions."

A December 1975 memo detailing Mr. Kissinger's probing conversation with Foreign Affairs Minister Saadoun Hammadi eight years after Iraq severed diplomatic relations with Washington is included in some 28,000 pages of Kissinger-era foreign policy papers published in an online collection yesterday. ...


I've seen Kissinger on TV many times during the years being asked about this and that of the Middle East. I'm not quite sure what to think about him at this point.

Evie Happy

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U.S. had stopped backing Kurdish
May 27, 2006 4:11AM PDT

The same ones gassed by Saddam?

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(NT) (NT) another jp flame ignor
May 27, 2006 4:27AM PDT
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more kissinger docs
May 27, 2006 4:57AM PDT