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[mister d]

[brian]

Rot in hell. One of the top ten monsters of the 20th century.

[Johnnie]

A buddy of mine was saddened when Jimmy Carter initially entered hospice because it's cosmically unfair that scum like Kissinger would outlive a great man like Carter. So, at least there's that.

[Pruitt IV]

Rot in hell. One of the top ten monsters of the 20th century.

A monster, but not sure about the top ten.

[brian]

Rot in hell. One of the top ten monsters of the 20th century.

A monster, but not sure about the top ten.

Architect of millions of innocents dead in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Only the worst dictators were worse.

[DaveInSeattle]

[Johnnie]

Outstanding article title:

[Jerloma]

I actually didn't even know about this. Was he in some sort of cahoots with Pot?

[Ryan]

[Johnnie]

That tracks.

[MaxWebster]

fking unreal.

i'll second that he was one of the worst humans alive, mostly that he kept getting away with literal mass murder under the guise of a funny accent (as a kid imitating his accent was somehow a common occurrence in our household - clearly son of a history teacher humour there)

[degenerasian]

Rot in hell. One of the top ten monsters of the 20th century.

A monster, but not sure about the top ten.

Architect of millions of innocents dead in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Only the worst dictators were worse.

but but but he got out of Vietnam, he signed the peace treaty! He even got a nobel peace prize for being duped in Paris.

[The Sybian]

i'll second that he was one of the worst humans alive, mostly that he kept getting away with literal mass murder under the guise of a funny accent (as a kid imitating his accent was somehow a common occurrence in our household - clearly son of a history teacher humour there)

[sancarlos]

I actually didn't even know about this. Was he in some sort of cahoots with Pot?

No. This was before Pol Pot took over, and the USA wasn't allied with him. It was related to HK/Nixon's strategy to "win" the Vietnam war. But one could argue that the destabilization created by those actions set the stage for Pol Pot.

[P.D.X.]

100 deaths/year currently from UXO's

[tennbengal]

Washington Post with this hard-hitting reflection on Kissenger today -

"The Surprising Dating Life of Henry Kissenger, a West Wing 'playboy'"

for fuckssake. Fuck all the way off with that shit, WaPo.

[mister d]

From spraying bombs to spraying cum, this guy did it all!

[EnochRoot]

Rot in hell. One of the top ten monsters of the 20th century.

A monster, but not sure about the top ten.

Easily. Probably top 5.

[tennbengal]

From spraying bombs to spraying cum, this guy did it all!

WaPo: Oh, the wild memories. "I got your tricky dick right here!" yelled Kissinger as he cut it up with the President. Should we murder a few more villages before I pillage this whore's borders?

[sancarlos]

From spraying bombs to spraying cum, this guy did it q

WaPo: Oh, the wild memories. "I got your tricky dick right here!" yelled Kissinger as he cut it up with the President. Should we murder a few more villages before I pillage this whore's borders?

Look at TB, easily slipping into wild and crazy playboy player mode.

[Shirley]

I've heard Kissinger described as a war criminal and one of the worst people ever for decades now and I still don't really know what he did. I guess his crimes were too recent for me to learn about them in school, but yet old enough that I wasn't following the news at the time. Soooo, other than bombing Cambodia (or more accurately, I assume he suggested to Nixon that we do that), what did he do that makes him so bad?

[Steve of phpBB]

I've heard Kissinger described as a war criminal and one of the worst people ever for decades now and I still don't really know what he did. I guess his crimes were too recent for me to learn about them in school, but yet old enough that I wasn't following the news at the time. Soooo, other than bombing Cambodia (or more accurately, I assume he suggested to Nixon that we do that), what did he do that makes him so bad?

Supporting Pinochet's coup against Allenda in Chile in 1973 is a big one.

Spencer Ackerman's obituary in Rolling Stone (online) gives a good background.

[Steve of phpBB]

Well handled by Biden.

[Shirley]

I've heard Kissinger described as a war criminal and one of the worst people ever for decades now and I still don't really know what he did. I guess his crimes were too recent for me to learn about them in school, but yet old enough that I wasn't following the news at the time. Soooo, other than bombing Cambodia (or more accurately, I assume he suggested to Nixon that we do that), what did he do that makes him so bad?

Supporting Pinochet's coup against Allenda in Chile in 1973 is a big one.

Spencer Ackerman's obituary in Rolling Stone (online) gives a good background.

Oh yeah, I guess I knew about Pinochet as well. Still, haven't we taken the wrong side in a million coups and rebellions? What makes Kissinger unique?

[sancarlos]

He also notably promoted US support for the military junta who ran and terrorized Argentina in the 70s.

I think in sum, his realpolitik, amoral pragmatism and strong influence lacked any moral values and only concerned itself with supporting US politics and/or business interest, regardless of the resulting body count. Surprising, coming from a guy whose family fled the Nazis when he was an adolescent.

[mister d]

Oh yeah, I guess I knew about Pinochet as well. Still, haven't we taken the wrong side in a million coups and rebellions? What makes Kissinger unique?

Feels like this anecdote was created to answer that exact question ...

[Steve of phpBB]

Still, haven't we taken the wrong side in a million coups and rebellions? What makes Kissinger unique?

The body count.

[degenerasian]

I've heard Kissinger described as a war criminal and one of the worst people ever for decades now and I still don't really know what he did. I guess his crimes were too recent for me to learn about them in school, but yet old enough that I wasn't following the news at the time. Soooo, other than bombing Cambodia (or more accurately, I assume he suggested to Nixon that we do that), what did he do that makes him so bad?

Supporting Pinochet's coup against Allenda in Chile in 1973 is a big one.

Spencer Ackerman's obituary in Rolling Stone (online) gives a good background.

Oh yeah, I guess I knew about Pinochet as well. Still, haven't we taken the wrong side in a million coups and rebellions? What makes Kissinger unique?

Here you go from the late Christopher Hitchens. There's Iraq, there's Apartied in South Africa, there's Greece and Cyprus.

https://cbgr1971.org/files/people/The-C ... r-Full.pdf

[Pruitt IV]

Rot in hell. One of the top ten monsters of the 20th century.

A monster, but not sure about the top ten.

Yeah, put him in the pantheon.