Thursday, January 6, 2011

The human rights abuses of Henry Kissinger--overlooked by mainstream media.

Let's start with something recent:
"[Bob] Woodward writes that when Gerson asked Kissinger why he supported the [Iraq] war, he replied, “Because Afghanistan wasn’t enough,’ … In the conflict with radical Islam, he said, they want to humiliate us. ‘And we need to humiliate them’ … In Manhattan, this position got him into trouble, particularly at cocktail parties, he noted with a smile.”

For more information on the career diplomat [who was depicted in the mainstream media as the globetrotting "Super K" in the 70s] and his darker side: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/415715

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