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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (235090)	7/2/2007 10:40:32 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

I enjoy reading Kissinger...how about you? More Vietnam War Papers Released Kissinger Told China U.S. Could Accept Communist Takeover By Calvin Woodward Associated Press Saturday, May 27, 2006; Page A22 Henry A. Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops -- even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths. President Richard M. Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."... washingtonpost.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (235090)	7/2/2007 10:53:10 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I should have thrown in this as well just in case you don't click on the link...this is really good.... "The meeting with Zhou took place in Beijing on June 22, 1972, during stepped-up U.S. bombing and the mining of harbors meant to stall a North Vietnamese offensive that began in the spring. China, North Vietnam's ally, objected to the U.S. course but was engaged in a historic thaw of relations with Washington. Kissinger told Zhou that the United States respected its Hanoi enemy as a "permanent factor" and probably the "strongest entity" in the region. "And we have had no interest in destroying it or even defeating it," he insisted." How about that, telling Zhou that the US had no interest in destroying or defeating North Vietnam! That's a knee slapper isn't it. ROTFLOL. jttmab