Kerry's Looking for Advice From THIS man?

[bigtree]

The Nation ‏@thenation 9m
Declassified documents reveal the complicity of the Nixon administration in the 1973 Chilean coup: http://tnat.in/oMRtj


Kissinger's Role in the Chilean Coup

“It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup…. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the the U.S. government and American hand be well hidden.” This directive was written in 1970 by the deputy CIA director in a secret memo—just one of many declassified documents that reveal the role of the CIA and Nixon White House in the 1973 Chilean coup.

Nation contributor Peter Kornbluh joins Democracy Now! on the fortieth anniversary of the coup to discuss the efforts of the Nixon administration to undermine the democratically elected Allende government and the continued failure to hold Kissinger accountable for his role in the atrocities committed by the Pinochet regime.

watch: http://www.thenation.com/blog/176138/peter-kornbluh-kissingers-role-chilean-coup

[ProSense]

1. Yes, and

"Kissinger's Role in the Chilean Coup "

...that's likely why Putin is such a big fan of the man.

Kerry Consults Kissinger on Getting to Yes With Russians
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023649540

[babylonsister]

2. I have had so much respect for Sen./SoS Kerry for a very long time,

maybe because he talks to people like Kissinger. I imagine SoS Kerry has a hang for this diplomatic thing.

He's the second smartest man in the room.

[bigtree]

3. I never get the fascination with that monster's opinion

. . . he's just an awful, awful man. I can only imagine his pov . . .

[babylonsister]

7. Who says there's a fascination? nt

[bigtree]

9. I don't mean that you are fascinated

. . .but I'm not sure if you've seen this man paraded before the public over the years by the politicos (I think Hillary Clinton was the last prominent Democrat making a public appearance with the man like he was some sort of sage).

There's definitely a fascination out there with this man's opinion which I can't imagine, in my wildest view, is anything that progressives would or should support.

[mylye2222]

10. Must have been indeed

very hard for Sos Kerry, since that Kissinger was one of those who once plotted against him while at power......

[Uncle Joe]

4. Yes this is the guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_kissinger

Nixon had been elected in 1968 on the promise of achieving "peace with honor" and ending the Vietnam War. In office, and assisted by Kissinger, Nixon implemented a policy of Vietnamization that aimed to gradually withdraw US troops while expanding the combat role of the South Vietnamese Army so that it would be capable of independently defending its government against the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, a Communist guerrilla organization, and North Vietnamese army (Vietnam People's Army or PAVN). Kissinger played a key role in secretly bombing Cambodia "practically back into the Stone Age."[24] to disrupt PAVN and Viet Cong units launching raids into South Vietnam from within Cambodia's borders and resupplying their forces by using the Ho Chi Minh trail and other routes, as well as the 1970 Cambodian Incursion and subsequent widespread bombing of suspected Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia. The bombing campaign contributed to the chaos of the Cambodian Civil War, which saw the forces of US-backed leader Lon Nol unable to retain foreign support to combat the growing Khmer Rouge insurgency that would overthrow him in 1975.[25][26] Documents uncovered from the Soviet archives after 1991 reveal that the North Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1970 was launched at the explicit request of the Khmer Rouge and negotiated by Pol Pot's then second in command, Nuon Chea.[27] The American bombing of Cambodia killed an estimated 40,000 Cambodian combatants and civilians.[28] Pol Pot biographer David Chandler argues that the bombing "had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh,"[29] while Christopher Hitchens asserts that the bombing may have increased recruitment for the Khmer Rouge.

Along with North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1973, for their work in negotiating the ceasefires contained in the Paris Peace Accords on "Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam," signed the January previous.[21] Tho rejected the award, telling Kissinger that peace had not been really restored in South Vietnam.[30] Kissinger wrote to the Nobel Committee that he accepted the award "with humility."[31][32] The conflict continued until an invasion of the South by the North Vietnamese Army resulted in a North Vietnamese victory in 1975 and the subsequent progression of the Pathet Lao in Laos towards figurehead status.

" with humility"

Thanks for the thread, bigtree.

[Coyotl]

5. Edit OP to read: "On 40th anniversary of Chile coup, Kerry meets with Kissinger!"

Kerry just descended into hell and had a little visit with Satan on a very special day. He is now on my shit list of lying politicos with no sense of judgment.

George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

[dtom67]

6. Why not?

This whole " handing over of chemical weapons " thing is just a delay, not the end. We may have to wait 6 months or so, but we WILL attack Syria; there is just too much money to be made to just forget about it.
manipulating the Public with emotional video's did not work, so I'm sure some other excuse will be found.

And then the checkbook will be opened.

After that, the same politicians who cheered for War and Death will tell us that we have to curb government spending ( not for killing, of course) by cutting "entitlements". Its OUR credit that is used to fund the government( and its wars), but they know best how to spend it.

Kissinger is the natural choice for advice on killing for profit....

[Carolina]

8. It figures

two of a kind