Quote from Henry Kissinger remembered on Memorial Day

[Scuba]

"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger



Honor the warriors. Hate the wars and the politicians who start them.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. And they call liberals and lefties elitists?

Why?

[Yon_Yonson]

2. Fuck you Kissenger ... you are a war criminal!

Get your sorry arse to The Hague!

[GeorgeGist]

3. Maybe the name should be changed to ...

Apology Day.

So many lives have been wasted; some entirely.

[Octafish]

4. The little tech sergeant also is no friend of democracy.

"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves... I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people." -- Henry Kissinger

[Boojatta]

6. "We're not against ideas. We're against people spreading them." - General Augusto Pinochet of Chile

[Octafish]

7. ''And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.''

From the Crook's taping system and the NYT:

Nixon and Mr. Kissinger were brutally dismissive in response to requests that the United States press the Soviet Union to permit Jews to emigrate and escape persecution there.

"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy," Mr. Kissinger said. "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."

"I know," Nixon responded. "We can’t blow up the world because of it."

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/us/politics/11nixon.html?_r=1&hp

PS: Thank you, Boojatta, for the Pinochet quote. I can see why they don't like the truth to get around.

[Enrique]

5. here's a link

in "The Final Days" by Bob Woodward. It doesn't say whether this is what got Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

http://books.google.com/books?id=B7T706Cg_JkC&lpg=PP1&ots=d-w2jFL-v-&dq=the%20final%20days%20woodward&pg=PA194#v=onepage&q=stupid%20animals&f=false