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Related: About this forumJust Who is Henry Kissinger?
And this asshole is a person Clinton thinks is good with foreign policy and looks up to for it.
The rehabilitation of Nixon era scumbags has begun. But since HRC likes him, he's good.
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Just Who is Henry Kissinger? (Original Post)
Feeling the Bern
Feb 2016
OP
He and Michael Savage: The only two Jews in the world that have either praised or
Feeling the Bern
Feb 2016
#4
She has great judgement and will be a great president. Look how much she loves Kissinger
Feeling the Bern
Feb 2016
#8
If I say it three times, he will appear and kill more people. Similar to the Candyman
Feeling the Bern
Feb 2016
#14
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)1. Anyone interested
should start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Foreign_policy
a few youtube searches will be a good exercise too
"Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels." --Hillary Rodham Clinton https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html
Edit to add:
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)2. To half paraphrase Kissinger. Some day in the future
this war criminal prick will be dead. That will be good for America and the world.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)3. Jews in gas chambers? Not our problem
But Nixons hard-wired anti-Semitism is an old story. What has caused many heads to swivel is a recording of Henry A. Kissinger, his national security adviser. Mr. Kissinger is heard telling Nixon in 1973 that helping Soviet Jews emigrate and thus escape oppression by a totalitarian regime a huge issue at the time was not an objective of American foreign policy.
And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, he added, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.
And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, he added, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.
Gee, what a swell guy to turn to for advice.
Decades Later, Kissinger's Words Stir Fresh Outrage Among Jews
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)4. He and Michael Savage: The only two Jews in the world that have either praised or
marginalized Hitler.
Sick men, and an insult to Jews like me.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)5. Ask Amy Goodman, she is one of his biggest fans.
Greg Palast could be helpful as well.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)6. Oh, Hillary seriously pals around with that terrorist.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-clinton-kissinger-vacation-dominican-republic-de-la-renta
Now we know Hillary Clinton's true platform - she's running on the Neocon-Lite platform. About the only thing she'll be able to offer in the general election is the "We suck less than those mean Republicans" schtick.
Of course, as I've said many times over the years, running on the Republican Lite, or the Neocon Lite platform is a losing strategy. The voters will vote for full-flavor from the other side. The "We suck less" campaign does not work.
Bernie's the one giving us a real progressive vision for the country. Hillary's incapable of doing that.
Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger: It's Personal. Very Personal.
The Clintons and the Kissingers regularly spend holidays together at a beachfront villa.
By David Corn | Fri Feb. 12, 2016 6:32 PM EST
At Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate, one of the most heated exchanges concerned an unlikely topic: Henry Kissinger. During a stretch focused on foreign policy, Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, jabbed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for having cited Kissinger, who was Richard Nixon's secretary of state, as a fan of her stint at Foggy Bottom.
"I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country," Sanders huffed, adding, "I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger." He referred to the secret bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam war as a Kissinger-orchestrated move that eventually led to genocide in that country. "So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger," Sanders roared. Clinton defended her association with Kissinger by replying, "I listen to a wide variety of voices that have expertise in various areas." She cast her interactions with Kissinger as motivated by her desire to obtain any information that might be useful to craft policy. "People we may disagree with on a number of things may have some insight, may have some relationships that are important for the president to understand in order to best protect the United States," she said.
What Clinton did not mention was that her bond with Kissinger was personal as well as professional, as she and her husband have for years regularly spent their winter holidays with Kissinger and his wife, Nancy, at the beachfront villa of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, who died in 2014, and his wife, Annette, in the Dominican Republic.
This campaign tussle over Kissinger began a week earlier, at a previous debate, when Clinton, looking to boost her résumé, said, "I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time. So I have an idea about what it's going to take to make our government work more efficiently." A few days later, Bill Clinton, while campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire, told a crowd of her supporters, "Henry Kissinger, of all people, said she ran the State Department better and got more out of the personnel at the State Department than any secretary of state in decades, and it's true." His audience of Democrats clapped loudly in response.
The Clintons and the Kissingers regularly spend holidays together at a beachfront villa.
By David Corn | Fri Feb. 12, 2016 6:32 PM EST
At Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate, one of the most heated exchanges concerned an unlikely topic: Henry Kissinger. During a stretch focused on foreign policy, Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, jabbed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for having cited Kissinger, who was Richard Nixon's secretary of state, as a fan of her stint at Foggy Bottom.
"I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country," Sanders huffed, adding, "I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger." He referred to the secret bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam war as a Kissinger-orchestrated move that eventually led to genocide in that country. "So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger," Sanders roared. Clinton defended her association with Kissinger by replying, "I listen to a wide variety of voices that have expertise in various areas." She cast her interactions with Kissinger as motivated by her desire to obtain any information that might be useful to craft policy. "People we may disagree with on a number of things may have some insight, may have some relationships that are important for the president to understand in order to best protect the United States," she said.
What Clinton did not mention was that her bond with Kissinger was personal as well as professional, as she and her husband have for years regularly spent their winter holidays with Kissinger and his wife, Nancy, at the beachfront villa of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, who died in 2014, and his wife, Annette, in the Dominican Republic.
This campaign tussle over Kissinger began a week earlier, at a previous debate, when Clinton, looking to boost her résumé, said, "I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time. So I have an idea about what it's going to take to make our government work more efficiently." A few days later, Bill Clinton, while campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire, told a crowd of her supporters, "Henry Kissinger, of all people, said she ran the State Department better and got more out of the personnel at the State Department than any secretary of state in decades, and it's true." His audience of Democrats clapped loudly in response.
Now we know Hillary Clinton's true platform - she's running on the Neocon-Lite platform. About the only thing she'll be able to offer in the general election is the "We suck less than those mean Republicans" schtick.
Of course, as I've said many times over the years, running on the Republican Lite, or the Neocon Lite platform is a losing strategy. The voters will vote for full-flavor from the other side. The "We suck less" campaign does not work.
Bernie's the one giving us a real progressive vision for the country. Hillary's incapable of doing that.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)7. I'm feeling seriously ill. My stomach is churning.
I can't sleep thinking this is happening. It just can't be real. I just want to cry.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)8. She has great judgement and will be a great president. Look how much she loves Kissinger
and Goldwater.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)9. When someone says they are feeling ill I think one should
offer aid, not more poison. Just me......
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)10. I was being sarcastic. I am ill too.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)11. Oh. Um K.
Let me know if you stumble across a remedy.
eridani
(51,907 posts)12. Should Henry Kissinger Mentor a Presidential Candidate?
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/12/should-henry-kissinger-mentor-presidential-candidate
At the February 11 Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year old former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sanders berated Clinton for saying that she appreciated the foreign policy mentoring she got from Henry Kissinger. I happen to believe, said Sanders, that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.
In one of Sanders rare outbursts of enmity, he added, I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger. And in fact, Kissinger's actions
in Cambodia, when the United States bombed that country, overthrew Prince Sihanouk, created the instability for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then butchered some three million innocent people, was one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.
Clinton went on to defend Kissinger, using the example of China. His opening up China and his ongoing relationships with the leaders of China is an incredibly useful relationship for the United States of America, she insisted.
Sanders responded that Kissinger scared Americans about communist China, then opened up trade so U.S. corporations could dump American workers and hire exploited, repressed Chinese.
First he warned us about the terrible, authoritarian, Communist dictatorship, groaned Sanders, now he's urging companies to shut down and move to China. Not my kind of guy.
At the February 11 Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year old former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sanders berated Clinton for saying that she appreciated the foreign policy mentoring she got from Henry Kissinger. I happen to believe, said Sanders, that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.
In one of Sanders rare outbursts of enmity, he added, I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger. And in fact, Kissinger's actions
in Cambodia, when the United States bombed that country, overthrew Prince Sihanouk, created the instability for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then butchered some three million innocent people, was one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.
Clinton went on to defend Kissinger, using the example of China. His opening up China and his ongoing relationships with the leaders of China is an incredibly useful relationship for the United States of America, she insisted.
Sanders responded that Kissinger scared Americans about communist China, then opened up trade so U.S. corporations could dump American workers and hire exploited, repressed Chinese.
First he warned us about the terrible, authoritarian, Communist dictatorship, groaned Sanders, now he's urging companies to shut down and move to China. Not my kind of guy.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)13. Say his name!
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)14. If I say it three times, he will appear and kill more people. Similar to the Candyman
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)16. He's virtually Lovecraftian... n/t
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)15. Hillary's BFF!