Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war'..2003 The Guardian report

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I'm glad Pres. Obama apologized for US support for Argentina's dirty war...


Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war'..2003 The Guardian report

Henry Kissinger gave his approval to the "dirty war" in Argentina in the 1970s in which up to 30,000 people were killed, according to newly declassified US state department documents.
Mr Kissinger, who was America's secretary of state, is shown to have urged the Argentinian military regime to act before the US Congress resumed session, and told it that Washington would not cause it "unnecessary difficulties".

The revelations are likely to further damage Mr Kissinger's reputation. He has already been implicated in war crimes committed during his term in office, notably in connection with the 1973 Chilean coup.

The material, obtained by the Washington-based National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act, consists of two memorandums of conversations that took place in October 1976 with the visiting Argentinian foreign minister, Admiral César Augusto Guzzetti. At the time the US Congress, concerned about allegations of widespread human rights abuses, was poised to approve sanctions against the military regime.

According to a verbatim transcript of a meeting on October 7 1976, Mr Kissinger reassured the foreign minister that he had US backing in whatever he did.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/06/argentina.usa

Hillary vacations with this war criminal.


2004
Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina


Transcripts show former secretary of state urged violent crackdown on opposition


Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday.
State department documents show the former secretary of state urged Argentina to crush the opposition just months after it seized power and before the US Congress convened to consider sanctions.

"We won't cause you unnecessary difficulties. If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better," Mr Kissinger told Admiral Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, the foreign minister, according to the State Department's transcript.

Carlos Osorio, an analyst at the National Security Archive, a US pressure group which published the transcript, said it was likely to be seen by historians as "a smoking gun".

It is likely to be seized on by Mr Kissinger's critics who have been calling for him to face charges for abetting war crimes and human rights abuses in Cambodia, Chile and Argentina.................

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/aug/28/argentina.julianborger

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1. The American government's love of repressive authoritarian governments as the "lesser of two evils"

goes way back. ""If there are things (violent repression) that have to be done, you should do them quickly" ... They offend American sensibilities much less if they are done quickly and, to the extent possible, done out-of-sight with midnight arrests, torture and execution in prisons the 'we don't know about'. Wink, wink.

Sad, but not surprising, to see this.

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4. Mark Twain got it right

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2. Obama has pledged to release more documents in the hope that “this gesture helps rebuild trust

Four decades after coup, people power is driving change in Argentina


The visit to Argentina by US president Barack Obama on the 40th anniversary of the coup in which the now-infamous military Junta seized power has opened up a lot of barely healed wounds. The families of more than 30,000 people either killed or “disappeared” during the seven-year dictatorship of the generals are boycotting memorial ceremonies, instead staging their own mass demonstrations to call for justice.

Forty years on, the coup against the Peronist government still reverberates through Argentinian society. It was carried out by senior army officers on March 24, 1976 after two years of planning. This was a sharp reaction by the upper echelons of the armed forces, in cahoots with landowners (the “terratenientes”) and industrialists. The takeover was a response to what Argentina’s elites perceived to be a threat from the increasingly active working class and unionised middle classes.

This threat was massively overplayed. Successive Peronist regimes had adopted an explicit anti-Marxist orientation and any communist threat was more rhetorical than realistic in Argentina. But in the wake of a series of popular revolutionary uprisings in Latin America – especially Cuba – there was heightened concern in Washington.

The US role in the events of March 1976 has never fully emerged, despite the release by the Clinton administration of documents in 2000 which detailed US involvement in the Chilean coup of 1973. Certainly, many Argentine military officers were trained in the US at the School of the Americas at this time. This training was to become notorious.

Obama has pledged to release more documents in the hope that “this gesture helps rebuild trust that may have been lost between our two countries”.

Impetus for change

In a strange way, the rule of the Junta actually paved the way for the development of a particular form of liberal democracy in Argentina in which human rights organisations, women’s groups and other non-government actors drive the political process as much as politicians............

https://theconversation.com/four-decades-after-coup-people-power-is-driving-change-in-argentina-54973

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3. Duh!

What a surprise - NOT!

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5. Henry Kissinger is literally the worst living person in the world.

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6. Not according to Hilllary...... they are best buds

And even vacation together in the Dominican Republic.

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7. Hillary Kissinger

got to love it