Clintons, Kerry toast war criminal Kissinger as "indispensable statesman”

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Who says bipartisanship is dead?

Republicans and Conservacrats came together just fine for this Manhattan cocktail party circuit tribute to one of history's greatest monsters.


What do thousands of dead Chileans, a violent coup and two decades of dictatorship matter when you have the NYC social event of the year to attend? And why spoil the fun by bringing up East Timor or Vietnam?

Henry Kissinger’s 90th birthday party on Monday night at New York’s most glamorous dining room in Manhattan’s St. Regis Hotel drew an astonishing lineup of luminaries, including former secretaries of state Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, former French president Valéry Giscard D’Estaing, former chief of staff James Baker, former secretary of state Colin Powell, Gen. David Petraeus, and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Many of them, such as a visiting French dignitary fresh off a plane from Paris at the age of 103, proved that 90 is the new 30. Former president Bill Clinton, former secretary of state George Shultz, and current Secretary of State John Kerry all came to the podium to toast what Kerry called America’s “indispensable statesman,” as did as Kissinger’s two children, David and Elizabeth.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/04/john-mccain-s-surprising-toast-at-kissinger-s-90th-birthday-party.html

So, who regaled Kissinger with the best speech? “Bill Clinton, as always,” former ambassador William vanden Heuveland said. The former president was the grand finale, apparently assuring the crowd, “I’m the last speaker, so you can all kind of relax.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/04/staking-out-kissinger-s-90th-birthday-party.html

“Boohoo, boohoo … He’s still beating his breast, right? Still feeling guilty. ” ( Pretending to cry, rubbing his eyes.)
-- Henry Kissinger, on Robert McNamara's regrets on Vietnam

http://www.alternet.org/world/top-10-most-inhuman-henry-kissinger-quotes

[villager]

1. All part of our "two" party system...

n/t

[leftstreet]

5. Grand Gala for Them, Circus for the rest of Us n/t

[HiPointDem]

2. statesman my ass. state of the 1%

[MrSlayer]

3. It's a big club.

And we ain't in it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Birds of a feather......

[Canuckistanian]

6. What? No dignitaries from Chile? Or East Timor?

How ungrateful.

[Whisp]

7. Kissinger, the man whose voice sounds like he is gargling with the human blood

he helped spill.

I'm not surprised the Clintons would kiss mass murdering ass, but am disappointed in Kerry. But what can he do, I guess it would be 'awkward' if the present SoS didn't attend... ugh. all around ugh. And I guess it would be awkward if the Clintons didn't attend either (but they seem buddy buddy with the creature from Hells).

[cpwm17]

8. Monsters have feelings too

[TheBadWolf]

9. The moral part of me wishes to see this guy in chains at The Hague

The darker part of me wants him dropped off in the middle of Santiago surrounded by the people who lost loved ones to Pinochet.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Screw the moral part, I will take option B.

His "pals" tell you all you need to know about the real world.

[truebrit71]

14. Yup...

[malaise]

17. I'll take the darker part for $2,000 Alex n/t

[hlthe2b]

10. Well, there is a concerted bipartisan effort to protect all the Bush* Cheney war criminals...

so, count me unsurprised... just dismayed.

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. I wish I could say I'm shocked. K&R n/t

[truebrit71]

13. Sickening....

[russspeakeasy]

15. You are known by the company you keep.

[G_j]

16. the 'above the law' club

only very special people belong..

[Major Hogwash]

18. It's all about Hillary, man.

She just has to "save" us in 2016.

[d_b]

19. Democrats

[GeorgeGist]

20. More Botox!