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unhappycamper

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Mon Oct-04-10 04:21 AM
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Henry Kissinger "Regrets"

Henry Kissinger "Regrets"
by Todd Gitlin
Published on Sunday, October 3, 2010 by TalkingPointsMemo

That is, he regrets the intrusion of moral questions into professional matters best conducted by wise men like himself; regrets, in other words, that human beings everywhere consider him to have conducted himself barbarously in prosecuting the Vietnam war with reckless disregard for human life and health.

According to HuffPost, Kissinger said in Washington this week that

he regretted that what should have been straightforward disagreements over the U.S. approach to Vietnam became transmuted into a moral issue - first about the moral adequacy of American foreign policy altogether and then into the moral adequacy of America."

Next, I suppose that Kissinger "regretted" that irritating way in which the sun keeps rising in the east.

The HuffPost reporter scrambles over Kissinger's typical evasion. Consistently, tenaciously, for forty years, Kissinger has insisted that it would be unseemly to judge his policies--policies that cost the lives of (at least) hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia--as morally debased. And he has done so without losing his wise man status in the eyes of official Washington.

unhappycamper comment: I think Henry the K should be in the Hague with dick and dubya.

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A-Schwarzenegger

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Mon Oct-04-10 04:32 AM
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1. One of the most thoroughly evil fiends of our time.

He is responsible for a sea of blood.

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JohnnyLib2

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Mon Oct-04-10 07:23 AM
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2. The parallels between administrations and justifications of wars is chilling.

Lessons unlearned.....

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Le Taz Hot

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Mon Oct-04-10 08:00 AM
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5. I JUST posted something like that

in regard to Obama staying in Iraq (50,000 troops is NOT leaving) and Afghanistan. I believe I said something like, "Peace is at hand. Look it up."

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ellie

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Mon Oct-04-10 07:48 AM
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3. This is too much.

The evil ones do live forever.

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gratuitous

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Mon Oct-04-10 07:57 AM
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4. Yes, why should morality figure into wholesale slaughter?

Kissinger drew one lesson from the blood-drenched 20th century.

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peacetalksforall

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Mon Oct-04-10 09:10 AM
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6. Hitler lives! He is 'mis-understood' and 'mis-underestimated' just like Cheney Rumsfeld

Edited on Mon Oct-04-10 09:11 AM by peacetalksforall

and Bush, plus Rice and hundreds of others. The deal maker, Kissinger, dealer in death, architect of theft.

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