Henry Kissinger Undergoes Heart Procedure

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was reported "resting comfortably" at home Thursday after an angioplasty procedure, a hospital and a spokeswoman for his office said. Neither would provide further details.

"Dr. Henry Kissinger was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center on Tuesday, March 29, and underwent an angioplasty procedure," hospital spokeswoman Myrna Manners said in a statement. "He was discharged earlier today and is resting comfortably at home."

The statement was confirmed by Jessie Incao, spokeswoman for Kissinger Associates, Inc., the foreign policy consulting firm that Kissinger founded after leaving government service in the mid-1970s.

Angioplasty is a procedure for relieving blockages that impede blood flow to the heart, usually by inserting a catheter and inflating a tiny balloon.

Kissinger, who turns 82 on May 29, served Presidents Nixon and Ford for eight years as foreign policy adviser and secretary of state.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kissinger-angioplasty,0,352446.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[Sandpiper]

1. He has a Heart?

That's amazing!

[Merlin]

6. Of course he has a heart. It's just never been used. Use it or Lose it. nt

.

[saigon68]

22. Falwell and Kissinger in trouble

One more needed for the Hat Trick.

LOL

[psychopomp]

23. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch Cheeeneyy!

(To Bowie's "Changes")

For the Trifecta.

[kurtyboy]

17. My exact response on reading the headline---

Henry the K has a heart? Who knew?

[mmonk]

19. sure, it's just 2 sizes too small

[Sandpiper]

21. Nah, he's not even the Grinch

The Grinch never had anyone killed.

He just tried to steal Christmas.

[mmonk]

25. then maybe 5?

[central scrutinizer]

2. He has a heart?

Who knew?

[Algorem]

10. they had to send away for the really tiny instruments they used on the squ

irrel on Seinfeld

[Fenris]

3. Certainly no one here is going to wish him a speedy recovery...

We'll see...

[Zhade]

9. See post #7.

;)

[despairing optimist]

15. How about this wish: May he share a room with Jerry Falwell

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room.

[daleo]

4. It looks like he will escape justice soon.

Along with Pinochet. At least they won't be able to wreak more havoc.

[Book Lover]

5. Using the laproscope and miniature cameras

the surgeon finally uncovered the tiny pericardial sac, the "pillow" that surrounds the heart. "Aha!" he exclaimed. The sac appeared to this reporter to be approximately pea-sized and purplish-black. Not apparently connected to anything inside the thoracic cavity, the sac easily slid off to reveal a hard, dense structure that somehow moved to its own beat.

[Zhade]

7. Don't die, we need to hang you for your crimes after a trial in the Hague.

How's that for well-wishing, you murderous fucking sonuvabitch?

[TahitiNut]

11. Word!

:thumbsup:

[stevedeshazer]

13. I'm on board with that.

He's the Chief American Imperialist Pig.

I want a confession, Abu Ghraib-style.

[malaise]

14. How do these evil people

live so long?

[NYC]

26. Only the good die young.

(I had thought it was just an expression.)

[Botany]

8. I hope the widow of Salvador Alende

Got to work on him w/ rusty tools and no anesthetic.

El noche del generalies. The night of the generals. Alende committed suicide with
over 40 machine gun bullets.

[AlCzervik]

12. is this how will get out of being called to the Pinochet Trial?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

16. WP on 9/11/01 - Kissinger sued by family of murdered Chilean general.

28 years to the day after the 1973 US-backed coup against Salvador Allende in Chile, the son of murdered Chilean General Schneider went ahead with a law suit against Henry Kissinger for his part in the coup and murder.

That was a Washington Post headlined story on the morning of 9/11/01.

What an interesting day to turn over the international game board and seize the initiative with mass murder and propaganda, the usual tools of fascism.

And then go first to Henry Kissinger to front the Ommission Panel on the so-called 'intelligence failure' with no mention of NORAD's Operation Vigilant Warrior eliminating US national security that morning.

Go rent the video 'The Trials of Henry Kissinger' and see his lifetime of war crimes used for social climbing.
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Family of Slain Chilean Sues Kissinger, Helms
Military Leader Was Killed in Kidnap Attempt Linked to Nixon Administration

By Bill Miller
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 11, 2001; Page A22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7048-2001Sep10?language=printer

The family of Chilean military commander Rene Schneider, who was killed 31 years ago during a botched kidnapping, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington yesterday accusing Henry A. Kissinger, Richard M. Helms and other officials in the Nixon administration of orchestrating a series of covert activities that led to his assassination.

The lawsuit, which attorneys said is based heavily upon recently declassified CIA documents, seeks more than $3 million in damages from Kissinger, Helms and the U.S. government for "summary execution," assault and other civil rights violations. It alleges that Schneider was targeted because he stood in the way of a military coup designed to keep leftist Salvador Allende from taking power as Chile's president. At the time, Kissinger was Nixon's national security adviser, and Helms headed the CIA.

The suit revisits one of Chile's most notorious crimes and marks the first time that high-level U.S. officials have been sued in connection with the shooting. Schneider was the left-leaning head of the Chilean Armed Forces, and his murder was long considered to have been carried out by right-wing extremists within the military. The suit focuses on U.S. government ties to the assailants that were described in the declassified papers.

[Mokito]

24. Sound familiar?

And then go first to Henry Kissinger to front the Ommission Panel on the so-called 'intelligence failure'

[hector459]

18. "Deep Throat" has a heart?

Hmmm....news to me.

[todwest]

20. He's having one installed