Christopher Hitchens in his book "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" more than skillfully shredded the credibility of Henry Kissinger, one-time Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration. Hitchens proved, based on documents, that Kissinger could be held accountable for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Indo-China and Chile alone. It is no wonder that Kissinger has been loathe to travel outside the US lest he be arrested as a war criminal.
It therefore comes as a surprise that Hilary Clinton is now going to celebrate Kissinger - as truthdig reports:
"Nothing more symbolizes how the temptations of power can corrupt youthful values and idealism than Secretary Hillary Clinton's invitation to Henry Kissinger and Richard Holbrooke to keynote a major State Department conference on the history of the Indochina war. As an idealistic college student, Clinton protested Kissinger's mass murder of civilians in Indochina. She knows full well that had the international laws protecting civilians in war been applied to Kissinger's bombing of civilian targets in Indochina he would have been indicted for crimes of war."
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"Inviting Kissinger to keynote a conference on U.S. history in Indochina insults history, the memories of tens of thousands of Americans and countless Indochinese civilians who needlessly died as a result of his policies, the young people of America who desperately need to learn the truth about what occurred in Indochina so as not to repeat it, and all those who oppose indiscriminate mass murder of civilians."
It therefore comes as a surprise that Hilary Clinton is now going to celebrate Kissinger - as truthdig reports:
"Nothing more symbolizes how the temptations of power can corrupt youthful values and idealism than Secretary Hillary Clinton's invitation to Henry Kissinger and Richard Holbrooke to keynote a major State Department conference on the history of the Indochina war. As an idealistic college student, Clinton protested Kissinger's mass murder of civilians in Indochina. She knows full well that had the international laws protecting civilians in war been applied to Kissinger's bombing of civilian targets in Indochina he would have been indicted for crimes of war."
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"Inviting Kissinger to keynote a conference on U.S. history in Indochina insults history, the memories of tens of thousands of Americans and countless Indochinese civilians who needlessly died as a result of his policies, the young people of America who desperately need to learn the truth about what occurred in Indochina so as not to repeat it, and all those who oppose indiscriminate mass murder of civilians."
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