Kissinger Criticized Subordinates

[neomonkey]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggested punishing subordinates who criticized military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, declassified documents show.

In a transcript of a June 1976 conversation with William D. Rogers, then assistant secretary of state for Latin America, Kissinger called remarks by another State Department official criticizing the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet "a bloody outrage."

"I have not become a super liberal. This is not an institution that is going to humiliate the Chileans," Kissinger was quoted as saying in the transcript released Friday by the National Security Archive, a foreign policy research center in Washington

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[alittlelark]

1. Kissinger knows that if we sign on

to the International Courrt HE will be the first to go.

He's trying to get some publicity/limelight in the positive realm. There is a special place in hell for that man - no amount of 'humanitarian b*s' will save him.

He sees the writing on the wall - and it's in KERRY'S script.

[tritsofme]

2. Actually, the ICC can only hear crimes that occurred after 2002. nt

[alittlelark]

3. Damn....I didn't know that

Guess I need to read up before I post my fantasies.

[progdonkey]

4. good enough

Bush is still eligible. :D

[neomonkey]

11. This paragraph conjured images of Idiot King dying last night

"The transcripts bolster evidence that the United States was sending mixed messages to Chile and Argentina during the period, according to Sebastian Brett, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch in Chile."

[AP]

7. ICC won't be retroactive. But Kissinger already at risk of arrest & con-

viction for violation of the existing laws of countries arround the world to whose jurisdiction is already subject.

[Swamp Rat]

5. I hope Kerry backs the ICC and they modify the rules to include crimes

committed 50 years ago. There should never be a statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Kissinger's last days should be spent in utter humiliation and solitary confinement.

[neomonkey]

6. Sweet graphic n/t

[Swamp Rat]

9. Thanks. I created this one a few hours ago:

[AP]

8. There's no statute of limitations on murder already.

[Swamp Rat]

10. See post#2 by tritsofme

"Actually, the ICC can only hear crimes that occurred after 2002." - I assumed this poster is correct. If this is true, wouldn't that preclude any crime, murder or not?

[AP]

13. And it only has jurisdiction over signatory nations, I bet.

[progdonkey]

12. yes, but we're talking jurisdiction

Assuming tritsofme is correct, the court can't hear cases that occurred before 2002. It's a matter of jurisdiction; state courts can't hear kidnapping cases, the ICC can't hear cases before 2002.

Unfortunately, I don't know who would have jurisdiction over crimes against humanity before 2002 if not the ICC. Perhaps Kerry can get the jurisdiction extended to, say, 1965.

[AP]

14. Many countries already have jurisdiction over people who kill their...

...citizens abroad.

That's why the spanish courts got an extradition order against Pinochet while he was in the EU in '98.

Kissinger can longer travel to France because they're willing to execute an arrest warrant on behalf of some other nation for violation of some criminal statutue that has nothing to do with the ICC.

[Judi Lynn]

20. Thanks for pointing this out.

I thought I had heard his world's getting smaller, but wasn't sure what any of the details are.

It's awfully interesting knowing a man of his former influence is actually at risk now and can't just pull up and go anywhere his whim takes him.

[tritsofme]

17. Ad hoc tribunals such as those in Nuremberg or against Yugoslavia

could theoretically be called.

The Rome Treaty (which Clinton signed and bush "unsigned") which established the ICC is actually a pretty interesting document if you ever have the time to read it.

Kerry could resign onto it, but there's no chance in hell it gets 2/3 vote in the Senate.

[goforit]

15. One of Satan's mastered servants!!!!

Going down for the count!!!

[Racenut20]

16. Ronnie campaigned the 76 primaries against Ford to fire Kissinger.

[struggle4progress]

18. We should deport this terrorist SOB to Chile. eom

[roughandtumble]

19. How can a jew be so fascist?