God Jul och två tips

Från Then Französke-Kocken och Pasteybakaren till er alla som råkar snubbla in här, en riktigt God Jul!
Video-tips: Kenneth Aalborg botaniserar bland julspriten.


Och slutligen ett helt annat sorts tips av det lite allvarligare slaget. National Security Archives har lyckats få ut hittils hemliga telefonsamtal mellan bl a "fredspristagaren" Henry Kissinger och president Richard Nixon. 1972 trodde de fortfarande att man skulle kunna bomba Vietnam till underkastelse. Samtalen finns t o m som MP3:or att ta del av.

Washington, D.C., December 23, 2008 - Amidst a massive bombing campaign over North Vietnam, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon candidly shared their evident satisfaction at the “shock treatment” of American B 52s, according to a declassified transcript of their telephone conversation published for the first time today by the National Security Archive. “They dropped a million pounds of bombs,” Kissinger briefed Nixon. “A million pounds of bombs,” Nixon exclaimed. “Goddamn, that must have been a good strike.” The conversation, secretly recorded by both Kissinger and Nixon without the other’s knowledge, reveals that the President and his national security advisor shared a belief in 1972 that the war could still be won. “That shock treatment [is] cracking them,” Nixon declared. “I tell you the thing to do is pour it in there every place we can…just bomb the hell out of them.” Kissinger optimistically predicted that, if the South Vietnamese government didn’t collapse, the U.S. would eventually prevail: “I mean if as a country we keep our nerves, we are going to make it.”

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