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Ten quotes that illustrate his megalomania and indifference to the deaths of untold numbers of civilians.
TOP TEN KISSINGER QUOTES
1. Soviet Jews: The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern. ( link)
2. Bombing Cambodia: [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. ( link) (Emphasis added)
3. Bombing Vietnam: "It's wave after wave of planes. You see, they can't see the B-52 and they dropped a million pounds of bombs ... I bet you we will have had more planes over there in one day than Johnson had in a month ... each plane can carry about 10 times the load of World War II plane could carry." ( link)
4. Khmer Rouge: How many people did (Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary) kill? Tens of thousands? You should tell the Cambodians (i.e., Khmer Rouge) that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we wont let that stand in the way. We are prepared to improve relations with them. Tell them the latter part, but dont tell them what I said before. (from November 26, 1975 Meeting With Thai Foreign Minister.)
5. Dan Ellsberg: Because that son-of-a-bitchFirst of all, I would expectI know him wellI am sure he has some more information---I would bet that he has more information that hes saving for the trial. Examples of American war crimes that triggered him into it
Its the way hed operate
.Because he is a despicable bastard. (Oval Office tape, July 27, 1971)
6. Robert McNamara: Boohoo, boohoo
Hes still beating his breast, right? Still feeling guilty. ( Pretending to cry, rubbing his eyes.)
7. Assassination: It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. ( Statement at a National Security Council meeting , 1975)
8. Chile: I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. ( link)
9. Illegality-Unconstitutionality : The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (from March 10, 1975 Meeting With Turkish Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel in Ankara, Turkey)
10. Himself: Americans like the cowboy
who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else
This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique. (November 1972 Interview with Oriana Fallaci)
http://www.alternet.org/world/top-10-most-inhuman-henry-kissinger-quotes
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)vs standup?
Does he do standup?
I don't have the comedy channel or TV
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)malaise
(269,182 posts)Can't wait for that fugger to croak.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)He's spent this life as the human equivalent of a deadly virus.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Kerry could use since he likes his book so much and admires him for his great skills.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)or at least, America's involvement in it. He was co-recipient of the Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho, whose government had no intention of co-existing peacefully with its southern neighbor. After the US pulled out, North Vietnam ramped up its war against the South, toppling Saigon (later renamed Ho Chi Minh City, to rub it into the faces of the defeated South) a little more than 2 years after the American withdrawal.
I am no fan of American involvement in Vietnam, but what the North did to the South was terrible. The country as a whole is today trying to get back to where the South was back in the '60s.
KG
(28,753 posts)Orrex
(63,225 posts)If I were in a room with him and Cheney, I wouldn't know who to vomit on first.
kratos00
(99 posts)Douchebags of all time.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)but there are plenty of historical figures crowding him out of the Top 5, including, but not limited to:
Stalin,
Hitler,
Mao,
Pol Pot
King Leopold II of Belgium
various medieval rulers such as Vlad the Impaler
Ghengis Khan
Attila the Hun
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)Not standing up for the guy, just giving credit where it's due!
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)was any real justice in this country.
It is embarrassing and humiliating that a Democratic Secretary of State would validate this RW criminal by conferring with him.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)There is not one ounce of humanity in that moldy carcass.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)The Link
(757 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Sometimes the smart bastards are the most deplorable of all.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Way before 5-4.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)("In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy."
-- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, The Final Days, p. 208)
Rec'd
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I'm sure it was just as ethical and upstanding as all of the examples in this list.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)locked up for war crimes and for his role in Watergate!!!