Goodman: Only reason Kissinger should be pursued is to be held accountable ... in a court of law

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29. Kerry was directed by the President or some one

to meet with Kissinger.

Whether Kissinger is also part of the board you' re talking about is not the point. I believe that you know that, and if that is the case, you are not telling the truth.

If you don't realize that, then I do apologize.

And in any event, if the President was as serious about sending a strong message to war criminals who advocate and allow and promote the use of illegal weapons against civilians as he claims to be while speechifying, then Obama should have seen to it that Kissinger was indicted for war crimes.

K. is a monster of a man who was in the loop of decisions made regarding use of napalm in Vietnam, the strategy of bombing the dikes that the rural Vietnamese needed to be safe from floods, using defoliating agents that to this day cause birth defects and cancers among both that population and also among aging service people in this country who had been deployed there.

None of these actions were legal, or decent. In fact those actions were an outrage. These actions resulted not in 400 deaths, as we saw in Syria, but in over six million people left dead, wounded or homeless.

Worst of all, to my way of thinking, is the story that an aide to K. tells:
Kissinger had insisted that bombs be hammering what was a civilian occupied area of Laos.

The aide informs K. that he needed to reconsider, as bombing a civilian area of villages in Laos was against the International norm and illegal according to Geneva Convention.

Henry simply smiled and told the aide not to worry about it. The aide for a moment thought it meant that Kissinger felt bad and was not going to target the same area again. But then the aide came to find out that Kissinger simply re-classified the area as a hostile area, and let further bombings proceed.