Where there's war, there's Kissinger - Molly Ivins

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http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1442

The Old War Criminal is back. I try not to hold grudges, but I must admit I have never lost one ounce of rancor toward Henry Kissinger, that cynical, slithery, self-absorbed pathological liar. He has all the loyalty and principle of Charles Talleyrand, whom Napoleon described as "a piece of dung in a silk stocking."

Come to think of it, Talleyrand looks pretty good compared to Kissinger, who always aspired to be Metternich (a 19th century Austrian diplomat). Just count the number of Americans and Vietnamese who died between 1969 and 1973, and see if you can find any indication he ever gave a damn.

As for Kissinger's getting the Nobel Peace Prize, it is a thing so wrong it has come to define wrongness -- as in, "As weird as the time Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize."

Tom Lehrer, who was a lovely political satirist, gave up satire after that blow...

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1. Thanks for posting CM

I didn't see Molly in the usual places and forgot to look at freepress. Doh!

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2. ONE!! To think the grand ol' war criminal is a trusted bush* adviser.

Hell, Kissinger can't even leave the country without fearing arrest and an impromptu appearance at The Hague for his contributions to crimes against humanity, including mass murder. And an adviser and close friend to bush*...who would have thought?

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3. I have thought since at least 2002

That bush's real goal is to be the living human with the highest death count. Recent accounts of his consulting with Kissinger only make me think he is looking for advise from henry and all the while henry is keeping his foot in the door to beat bush by claiming credit for bush related consultation to increase his overall tally.

I think Henry is also credited for about one million in Cambodia too. East Timor.............

Boots won't leave office till he attains that goal or dies trying.

His record for governers ain't enough for him.