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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So Obama is hororing the war criminal who is Hillary's mentor. Is it OK with "Progressive"? [View all]Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)16. She has praised him many times vocally and via the written word.
She has accepted his advice as Secretary of State and she and Bill vacation with him.
He is one of the disgusting human beings in U.S. history. Spreading untold misery around the globe.Misery that reverberates to this day. Millions tortured and murdered.
Hillary Clinton has long invoked Henry Kissinger as a mentor her infamous emails show that they corresponded with some frequency when she was secretary of state. But using her connection to one of US politics elder statesmen to signal her power may be alienating more potential voters than its attracting.
She mentioned Kissinger during one recent Democratic debate, and rival Bernie Sanders brought up her apparent fondness for him at the last one, on Thursday night. I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country, he said, to massive applause.
His use of destructive alludes to the fact that many consider Kissinger a war criminal, most famously Christopher Hitchens, who, in a lengthy two-part article for Harpers in 2001 (later expanded into the book and documentary, The Trial of Henry Kissinger), laid out his case that Kissinger should be brought up on charges for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture.
Among Kissingers numerous offenses: as national security adviser, and later secretary of state to both presidents Nixon and Ford, Kissingers foreign policy views often held sway, from his backing of Operation Menu, the covert bombing campaign in Laos and Cambodia in 1969-70, to the disastrous attack on the Khmer Rouge in 1975 in the wake of the Mayaguez incident. As part of the CIAs larger plan to destabilize the Allende government in Chile, Hitchens argued that Kissinger was behind the kidnapping of Chilean general René Schneider, who was ultimately killed by his captors. Schneiders family even sued Kissinger for the murder, but to no avail.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/13/hillary-clinton-henry-kissinger-harms-her-campaign
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-clinton-kissinger-vacation-dominican-republic-de-la-renta
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.
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So Obama is hororing the war criminal who is Hillary's mentor. Is it OK with "Progressive"? [View all]
kgnu_fan
May 2016
OP
You can tell a lot about people by who they choose to pat on the back. nt
cherokeeprogressive
May 2016
#3
Hmmmm ..... who do I want for POTUS .... the one paling around the 1% with Henry Freaking Kissinger
marble falls
May 2016
#133
Not really - I just don't extrapolate facts into exponential hysteria to the point of ridiculous.
Lil Missy
May 2016
#108
There are democratic countries that he cannot enter because he would be arrested on sight.
Luminous Animal
May 2016
#11
I miss Sanator Obama who was a "progressive" before he became President. I wonder if he
kgnu_fan
May 2016
#19
I did NOT know that! Wow, I am so disgusted with Obama now... I never knew....!
kgnu_fan
May 2016
#38
Do you have a link for that wellstone remark? That is shocking and offensive
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#61
Sirota has repeated the quote as recently as this past February in his Twitter feed
dflprincess
May 2016
#126
Sometimes I wonder if those Secret Service agents are really there to protect his family
Matariki
May 2016
#37
Unless the ceremony is taking place in The Hague as a pretense to bring him to justice
Dragonfli
May 2016
#40
They're all in it together. We are royally fucked as a country, beyond the point of no return.
ThePhilosopher04
May 2016
#48
Foreign lives and nations are the price of the US doing business, in most people's mind.
cpwm17
May 2016
#84
more privileged purism, the people who served.. no matter how horribly get these honors. You guys...
uponit7771
May 2016
#60
Nope, not following a tradition of honoring those who served is NOT progressive though
uponit7771
May 2016
#64
Why? What does upholding some "tradition" have to do with being progressive?
TheKentuckian
May 2016
#100
I still remember vividly the great speech he gave during the Denver convention. He broke his promise
kgnu_fan
May 2016
#117
This is beyond belief. Kissinger? Why not honor John Wayne Gacy? His bodycount too low?
mikehiggins
May 2016
#77
Well she is a progressive. I know that because she said it. Perhaps Kissinger is too? (now) nt
silvershadow
May 2016
#79
I kind of wonder what the hell is wrong with him at times. (and this is one of them)
pdsimdars
May 2016
#103