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AP Exclusive: Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq
TOKYO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.
He also said he sympathizes with the troubles facing U.S. President George W. Bush.
"A 'military victory' in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible," Kissinger told The Associated Press in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University.
The faceless, ubiquitous nature of Iraq's insurgency, as well as the religious divide between Shiite and Sunni rivals, makes negotiating peace more complex, he said.
"It is a more complicated problem," Kissinger said. "The Vietnam War involved states, and you could negotiate with leaders who controlled a defined area."
AP Exclusive: Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq - International Herald Tribune
Hey Dembot.....couldn't you find an older and less relevant article to post? This one is from April of 2007. I was going to post that old Henry is slipping, everyone has known that for a LOOOOOONG time. This is only news to loony libs who have been utterly confused since the beginning of that war.