If only Pol Pot was alive to see what I've accomplished

[DefenseLawyer]

The Kissinger shout out is one of the weirder things you could say in a Democratic debate.

[Cheese Sandwich]

1. This. Who brags about support of a war criminal?

Obligatory:

[angrychair]

2. I guess I missed it

Who made a Kissinger reference? Clinton?

[Motown_Johnny]

4. Yes.

Claiming he praised her on how well she ran State Dept.

[angrychair]

5. Someone talks to you

And you miss all the good stuff!

[Paulie]

3. Playing his song

https://m.

[HassleCat]

6. The average person admires Kissinger.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the media kept consulting him for spontaneous wisdom.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Statistically the average person sees Paul McCartney on tv at the VMAs & says "who's the old dude?"

I strongly believe that outside of heavily older skewing internet politics bubbles like DU, the average person doesn't know who Henry Kissinger IS.

The people hitting voting age this year were BORN in the final years of the last Clinton administration. For them the internet is something that happened before they were born, sort of the way those of us born in the 60s might have a vague awareness of black and white tv.

For the folks who are still barely over the macarena, this all may come as a shock. The people- mostly boomers- who exist in this sort of time warp denial bubble have proven completely clueless about exactly where the electorate is, mostly because a large chunk of them- Millennials- are invisible to nonexistent on their radar screens.

[DefenseLawyer]

10. No. No they don't.

The average person doesn't even know who he is. But of those that do, most don't admire him. Among democrats almost none do. You apparently know too many neocons.

[grasswire]

11. I don't THINK so.

The opposite, I would guess.

[IDemo]

12. Yay, Henry K!!

According to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, when the bombing of North Vietnam finally started up again, Kissinger “expressed enthusiasm at the size of the bomb craters.” A Pentagon report released in 1973 stated that “Henry A. Kissinger approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids in 1969 and 1970” -- the most secretive phase of the bombing -- “as well as the methods for keeping them out of the newspapers.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176066/tomgram%3A_greg_grandin,_waging_endless_war_from_vietnam_to_syria/

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Yeah, that made my fillings hurt, too.

Oh yes, Henry the American Hero cough war criminal cough Patriot cough treason


http://www.salon.com/2014/10/02/henry_kissingers_dark_secret_why_the_warmongers_even_worse_than_we_thought/

[AtomicKitten]

8. LOL, 4 real.

[HeiressofBickworth]

13. Never forget: Kissinger is an unindicted war criminal

“During his tenure, millions of civilians were killed in Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos, in a war widely seen as illegitimate. Kissinger was responsible for crimes against humanity in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Chile and other countries as well.

"In East Timor one third of the population, over 180,000 people, were killed when Henry Kissinger and President Ford planned, supported and sponsored an attack by Indonesia,” said Rugoff.

Noted as a "Globalist Kingpin," Kissinger supported the apartheid regime in South Africa according to War Crimes Watch.
http://www.morningliberty.com/2011/06/03/top-5-kissinger-war-crimes-war-crime-watch-is-counting/

[RobertEarl]

14. She didn't?

You have got to be kidding me.

Sure, there is a pic of her and him from way back, but she didn't praise Kissinger and call herself progressive on the same night. No one is that out of it.

A bit of bg on Kissinger... he kept the Vietnam war going for another 100,00 killed. My generation hated him for his warmongering.