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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Thu May 19, 2016, 07:32 PM May 2016

HRC could say THIS about Kissinger:

"Look, I just meant I liked that he opened up China. I don't like any of the OTHER things he did."

"What he did to Vietnam and Cambodia was evil. What he did to Chile was evil. What he encouraged India and Pakistan to do to each other was evil, his sabotage of the negotiations between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus was evil, and so was what he encouraged Indonesia to do to East Timor in 1975. Everyone who sees him as a war criminal is justified in doing so."

"And as president, I'm not going to do ANYTHING remotely like the things he did then".

She'd have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Nobody who still thinks most of what Nixon and Kissinger did to the world was justified is going to agree with the Democratic Party on anything in this day and age.

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HRC could say THIS about Kissinger: (Original Post) Ken Burch May 2016 OP
Assuming of course that she agrees with your statement. guillaumeb May 2016 #1
That is of course the question. n/t. Ken Burch May 2016 #2
But this might mean the Clintons and the Kissingers pscot May 2016 #3
Henry K also helped Nixon derail Vietnam peace talks in 1968! Octafish May 2016 #4

pscot

(21,024 posts)
3. But this might mean the Clintons and the Kissingers
Thu May 19, 2016, 09:36 PM
May 2016

could no longer comfortably dine together. I have read recently that they're thick as thieves.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. Henry K also helped Nixon derail Vietnam peace talks in 1968!
Thu May 19, 2016, 09:54 PM
May 2016

Screwed Hubert H. Humphrey's campaign.



George Will Confirms

Nixon’s Vietnam Treason

by BOB FITRAKIS & HARVEY WASSERMAN
CounterPunch, Aug. 13, 2014

Richard Nixon was a traitor.

The new release of extended versions of Nixon’s papers now confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” by Republican conservatives. Now it has been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist George Will.

Nixon’s newly revealed records show for certain that in 1968, as a presidential candidate, he ordered Anna Chennault, his liaison to the South Vietnam government, to persuade them refuse a cease-fire being brokered by President Lyndon Johnson.

Nixon’s interference with these negotiations violated President John Adams’s 1797 Logan Act, banning private citizens from intruding into official government negotiations with a foreign nation.

Published as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon’s resignation approaches, Will’s column confirms that Nixon feared public disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam peace talks. Will says Nixon established a “plumbers unit” to stop potential leaks of information that might damage him, including documentation he believed was held by the Brookings Institute, a liberal think tank. The Plumbers’ later break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down.

CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/13/nixons-vietnam-treason/

THIS is why Secret Government is undemocratic and evil, and it's secret agents and secret beneficiaries, like Henry Kissinger.

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