"In many ways, Clinton is a disciple of Kissinger..."

[Karmadillo]

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/12/emails_expose_close_ties_between_hillary_clinton_and_accused_war_criminal_henry_kissinger/

“Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state,” Clinton revealed in the review. “He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels.”

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As just some of the myriad examples of his crimes, in “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” Hitchens documented Kissinger’s implications in the following:

1. The deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina.
2. Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination, in Bangladesh.
3. The personal suborning and planning of murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation — Chile — with which the United States was not at war.
4. Personal involvement in a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus.
5. The incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor
6. Personal involvement in a plan to kidnap and murder a journalist living in Washington, D.C.

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In many ways, Clinton is a disciple of Kissinger and his aggressive, so-called “realist” school of foreign policy. Just as Clinton has overseen destructive wars and continuously pushed for military-heavy positions on Syria, Ukraine and more, Kissinger promoted a “madman” strategy in Vietnam, trying to make enemies believe the U.S. “might be crazy” enough to use a nuclear bomb.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. Maybe Sanders could get an education on foreign policy from Kissenger, he should at least try.

[polly7]

2. Are you serious? nt.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Seriously?

Hillary likes him so Democrats now suddenly love and respect Henry Fucking Kissinger? That's insane.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

5. Oh god no

fuck - - that is the most shocking thing I have ever read here

[amborin]

6. surely you jest; this is beyond absurd nt

[JonLeibowitz]

8. Seriously? What the fuck?

[SamKnause]

10. WTF ???

[beam me up scottie]

12. You want him to take advice from a war criminal? Did you even read the op?

[H2O Man]

14. gross

[John Poet]

15. Yeah, and maybe advice on women's issues from Charlie Manson?

There's little to choose between them... but what's a little murder and genocide between friends, right?

[Odin2005]

16. Are you seriously defending THAT FUCKING MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL???

[Autumn]

3. I remember Kissingers tenure well.

Not interested.

[polly7]

7. Kick.

Despite warnings by senior US officials that thousands of Chileans were being tortured and slaughtered, then Secretary of State Kissinger told Pinochet, "You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende."

Rather than calling peaceful protesters “despicable”, perhaps Senator McCain should have used that term to describe Kissinger’s role in the brutal 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor, which took place just hours after Kissinger and President Ford visited Indonesia. They had given the Indonesian strongman the US green light—and the weapons—for an invasion that led to a 25-year occupation in which over 100,000 soldiers and civilians were killed or starved to death. The UN's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) stated that U.S. "political and military support were fundamental to the Indonesian invasion and occupation" of East Timor.

If McCain could stomach it, he could have read the report by the UN Commission on Human Rights describing the horrific consequences of that invasion. It includes gang rape of female detainees following periods of prolonged sexual torture; placing women in tanks of water for prolonged periods, including submerging their heads, before being raped; the use of snakes to instill terror during sexual torture; and the mutilation of women’s sexual organs, including insertion of batteries into vaginas and burning nipples and genitals with cigarettes. Talk about physical intimidation, Senator McCain!

More: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/30/henry-kissinger-or-codepink-whos-low-life-scum

[angrychair]

9. My friends

Vote for a "Dem" that spends her personal time, away from the public eye, with the Bushes and Trumps and Henry Kissinger and counts them as her friends.

Yep, not sure about you but I would never call war criminals and xenophobic racist my friends.

[DirkGently]

11. Wikipedia's Condor article alone

demonstrates that Kissinger is ... problematic as a mentor in international affairs.

Henry Kissinger[edit]
Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations, was closely involved diplomatically with the Southern Cone governments at the time and well aware of the Condor plan. According to the French newspaper L'Humanité, the first cooperation agreements were signed between the CIA and anti-Castro groups, and the right-wing death squad Triple A, set up in Argentina by Juan Perón and Isabel Martínez de Perón's "personal secretary" José López Rega, and Rodolfo Almirón (arrested in Spain in 2006).[80]

On 31 May 2001, French judge Roger Le Loire requested that a summons be served on Henry Kissinger while he was staying at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. Le Loire wanted to question the statesman as a witness regarding alleged U.S. involvement in Operation Condor and for possible US knowledge concerning the "disappearances" of five French nationals in Chile during military rule. Kissinger left Paris that evening, and Loire's inquiries were directed to the U.S. State Department.[81]

In July 2001, the Chilean high court granted investigating judge Juan Guzmán the right to question Kissinger about the 1973 killing of American journalist Charles Horman. (His execution by the Chilean military after the coup was dramatized in the 1982 Costa-Gavras film, Missing.) The judge's questions were relayed to Kissinger via diplomatic routes but were not answered.[82]

In August 2001, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba sent a letter rogatory to the US State Department, in accordance with the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), requesting a deposition by Kissinger to aid the judge's investigation of Operation Condor.[83] On 10 September 2001, a civil suit was filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court by the family of Gen. René Schneider, murdered former Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, asserting that Kissinger ordered Schneider's murder because he refused to endorse plans for a military coup. Schneider was killed by coup-plotters loyal to General Roberto Viaux in a botched kidnapping attempt. As part of the suit, Schneider's two sons filed for civil damages against Kissinger and then-CIA director Richard Helms for $3 million.[84][85][86]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

[amborin]

13. Kissinger promoted reckless, insane, immoral escapades; haven't we learned???????