Salted Peanuts Memo may be Guiding Bush on Iraq

[SteveGrenard]

Woodward (book) and others allege Kisisinger has provided W. with a copy of his salted peanuts Memo as a recommendation for dealing with Iraq.

According to Woodward, Kissinger recently gave a Bush aide a copy of a memo he wrote in 1969 arguing against troop withdrawals from Southeast Asia, an issue as salient four decades ago as it is now.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20061001/index.htm

Kissinger's September 10, 1969, advice to President Nixon famously characterized withdrawals from Vietnam as "salted peanuts" to which the American people would become addicted.

The full text of the Salted Peanuts Memorandum can be found here:

www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20061001/peanuts.pdf