` Saturday September 30, 2006. POLITICAL ESSAYS Kissing Bugs ` ` A Washington Post columnist reveled in the agony of Supersleuth Woodward. [1] ` Sunday was to be the big day for Watergate Wood- ward: 60 Minutes, the Post, Newsweek, all were on the ready to publicize his latest book. ` But Friday morning the New York Times spilled the guts of his book on its front page. [2] ` But neither the Times story nor the Post's columnist mentioned Cambodia Kissinger. ` The Post's main article on Woodward Waylaid does mention Kissinger in its next-to-last paragraph: He "has played a key role as an outside adviser to Bush on the Iraq war." [3] ` Iraq war? I thought we were talking about Bob. ` ` On June 6th this year Cambodia Kissinger flew to Russia --a last minute inspection to see what Putin was up to with all his hooah about the G8 meet. [4] ` Cambodia Kissinger assured Putin that "I shall try to do what I can to help you in this [meeting with The Liar at the G8] and to share some of my ideas with you." ` Cambodia Kissinger and Chechnya Putin got along famously and later the same day the visitor met the press, assuring them that "I am simply a citizen" and regretting that "I must catch my plane." [5] ` Among the "ideas" the citizen may have shared with Putin? ` Pump up the G8 meeting for all it's worth. But don't be surprised when The Liar orders Puppet-israel to blow the G8, hurrahs and all, to smithereens with its all-out bombing campaign against Lebanon. ` Lebanon? I thought we were talking about Henry. ` ` The Superpower's RFE/RL news agency stated that after the Cambodia-Chechnya love-in, "Putin Says Russia And U.S. 'Understand Each Other'" because their relations are based on a pragmatic approach to common problems. [6] ` Pragmatic? Anything goes. ` ` ` ` [1] Timestamp: 12:48 PM ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/09/29/BL2006092900305_pf.html ` [2] ` http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29account.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=print ` [3] Timestamp: 1:50 PM ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092900368_pf.html ` [4] ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/06/06/1807_type82914type84779_106564.shtml ` [5] ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/docs/2006/06/106568.shtml ` [6] Third item down ` http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2006/06/060606.asp ` `
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