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Here Are the Top 10 Quotes from Hillary Clinton’s Friend and Monster Henry Kissinger
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Just take a look at these ten quotes from Kissinger and it’s easy to see why Sanders called Kissinger “one of the most destructive Secretaries of State in the modern history of this country.”
On 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.”
Maybe?
On 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.”
On 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 [a] World War II plane could carry.”
On Khmer Rouge, from a meeting with the Thai Foreign Minister in 1975:
“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 won’t let that stand in the way. We are prepared to improve relations with them. Tell them the latter part, but don’t tell them what I said before.”
On Dan Ellsberg from a July 27, 1971 Oval Office tape:
“Because that son-of-a-b*tch—First of all, I would expect—I know him well—I am sure he has some more information—I would bet that he has more information that he’s saving for the trial. Examples of American war crimes that triggered him into it…It’s the way he’d operate….Because he is a despicable bastard.”
On Robert McNamara:
“Boohoo, boohoo … He’s still beating his breast, right? Still feeling guilty. ”
On assassination, from a National Security Council meeting in 1975:
“It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.”
On 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.”
On Illegality-Unconstitutionality, from a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel in March of 1975:
“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
On himself, from a 1972 interview with Oriana Fallaci:
“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.”
Charming, right? No wonder Code Pink stormed in displaying blood on their hands, attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of Kissinger in January of last year.
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http://usuncut.com/politics/top-10-henry-kissinger-quotes-hillary-clinton-friend/
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She had made her mentor so proud.
"We came, we saw, he died!"
Peace to you. 
Lots of myths about Mussolini. He wasn't the first one to say "fascism is coporatism," for example. (Although he certainly put theory into practice!)
