Hillary: Kissinger Stands Up for American Values

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13. Praising Kissinger is bad, yes. But David Corn?

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Zounds! Sink me!

Two whole weeks have gone by without David Corn and Mother Jones attacking Hillary Clinton!

No mistake, Henry Kissinger is barely human, and has a lot of human blood and misery on his hands. He shouldn't be praised. Kissinger should have spent the last 40 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity. But this criticism by David Corn is curious, given who Corn chooses to hobnob with.

David Corn is happy to sit on the set of Hardball with Chris Matthews. The same Chris Matthews who was personally hired by Jack Welch of General Electric, which owned NBC. Jack Welch pioneered "downsizing," firing 10% of managers every year, regardless of overall performance. And he cut over 25% of the workforce within 5 years. At MSNBC, Welch hired Irish Catholic men who all hewed the Republican line, and they went to work praising all things GOP. In the 2000 election, when a reporter submitted a neutral piece on Gore, Welch went to MSNBC and personality and publicly fired her, yelling and screaming at her throughout the episode.

Once at MSNBC, Chris Matthews spent 5 years attacking Democrats and fawning over Republicans. During the 2000 election, he said that Al Gore "would lick the bathroom floor" to become president over 25 times in 2 months; he mocked everything about Gore, and repeated Republicans' lines with glee. Of course, nearly the entire Washington Press Corps told lies about Gore and failed to report on the record of Bush as governor of Texas. In an interview Matthews once said that "I hate the Clintons and everything they stand for." Matthews fawns over Ronald Reagan and attacks anyone who differs with him on this view.

This is the man that Corn chooses to sit across from. Calmly smiling, Corn also laughs at Matthews' attempts at humor. Even this week, as Matthews calls for all out war against ISIS, because they've killed Americans.

As I see the people who say that they will never vote for Hillary Clinton, I wonder what this is based on. Clinton was one of many Democratic senators who voted for the resolution giving Bush the authority to use force in Iraq.

An authority that Bush and every one of his administration officials said would never be used, as long as the inspectors continued their work. As a US senator, I doubt that anyone thought an American president would ever start a war. They and the American citizenry were told that the resolution was needed just to show the world that the US was united in wanting Iraq to give up its chemical and biological weapons.

Did Hillary Clinton know that Bush, having secured that authorization would promptly kick out the weapons inspectors and conduct a full scale invasion and occupation of Iraq? There is no evidence to support that conclusion.

And if you sit out this midterm election, and the 2016 election, then you have failed to perform even the most basic of democratic duties. If you want a nominee other than Clinton, you can join the party, or you can work to build a new one. But if the 2016 election is a close one, and the choice is Clinton or a Republican, and no 3rd party candidate is close, then you may want to remember the country under the Bush administration. Then vote.

For president, my state is safely blue, so I have the luxury of voting for the Green Party candidates. For those in toss up states, remember how great it was to have President Al Gore.