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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton’s Tutor in War and Peace [View all]
You can tell a lot about a person by seeing who their friends are.
Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clintons Tutor in War and Peace
(During debate), Clinton once again praised a man with a lot of blood on his hands.
By Greg Grandin
The Nation, Feb. 5, 2016
Clinton just cant quit him. Even as she is trying to outflank Bernie on his left, Hillary Clinton cant help but stutter the name of Henry Kissinger. Last night in the New Hampshire debate, Clinton thought to close her argument that she is the true progressive with this: I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time.
Lets consider some of Kissingers achievements during his tenure as Richard Nixons top foreign policymaker. He (1) prolonged the Vietnam War for five pointless years; (2) illegally bombed Cambodia and Laos; (3) goaded Nixon to wiretap staffers and journalists; (4) bore responsibility for three genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; (5) urged Nixon to go after Daniel Ellsberg for having released the Pentagon Papers, which set off a chain of events that brought down the Nixon White House; (6) pumped up Pakistans ISI, and encouraged it to use political Islam to destabilize Afghanistan; (7) began the USs arms-for-petrodollars dependency with Saudi Arabia and pre-revolutionary Iran; (8) accelerated needless civil wars in southern Africa that, in the name of supporting white supremacy, left millions dead; (9) supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America; and (10) ingratiated himself with the first-generation neocons, such as Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, who would take American militarism to its next calamitous level. Read all about it in Kissingers Shadow!
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As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husbands administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement. Kissinger, in his role as a global consultant, had played a critical role in bringing the various parties who would write that trade treaty together during the previous George H.W. Bush administration. Kissinger continued his NAFTA advocacy with Bill Clinton. As Jeff Faux writes in his excellent The Global Class War, Kissinger was the perfect tutor for Clinton, who was trying to convince Republicans and their business allies that they could count on him to champion Reagans vision.
By September 1993, Hillarys healthcare bill was ready to be presented to the public and to Congress. But so was NAFTA. All of Kissingers allies in the White House, including Mack McLarty, who would soon join Kissinger Associates, pushed Clinton to prioritize NAFTA over healthcare. Clinton did. It was Kissinger who came up with the idea of having past presidents stand behind Clinton as he signed the treaty. Reagan was sick and Nixon still non grata, but flanked by former presidents Bush, Carter and Ford at a White House ceremony, Mr. Clinton delivers an impassioned speech, The Wall Street Journal reported. No such presidential backdrop was assembled to help support Hillary Clintons healthcare proposal. By August 1994, healthcare was dead.
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http://www.thenation.com/article/henry-kissinger-hillary-clintons-tutor-in-war-and-peace/
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Bill Clinton, the Lippo Group, and Jackson Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas (5th Version) 1999
Octafish
Jun 2016
#19
You support white supremacist Paul Craig Roberts. Your argument is invalid. nt
Dr Hobbitstein
Jun 2016
#70
And you've shown DU that you'll believe any far-fetched conspiracy and bring it back to the BFEE.
Dr Hobbitstein
Jun 2016
#72
I hope I've shown DU that I'm not scared to call out supporters of white supremacists,
Dr Hobbitstein
Jun 2016
#79
Here's a more current link for your analysis Doc-its still open for those that can read.
bobthedrummer
Jun 2016
#101
A conversation with yourself about woo sites? I'll pass (as did everyone else).
Dr Hobbitstein
Jun 2016
#109
No, it's code for Conspiracy Theorist. I never called anyone Better Believe It nt
Dr Hobbitstein
Jun 2016
#112
How come you are not trotting out the Trump/Hillary wedding pictures any more?
Sheepshank
Jun 2016
#5
So, show the first you find in what I've posted on this or any thread that's not true.
Octafish
Jun 2016
#18
It's important for those interested in Democratic Action, not Kissinger Action.
Octafish
Jun 2016
#16
The Last Man of the Junta: Open Letter to Henry Kissinger from One of Pinochet's Political Prisoners
Octafish
Jun 2016
#39
K&R Embracing an evil war criminal: all one needs to know (combined with record of reckless Neo Con
amborin
Jun 2016
#23
Emails expose close ties between Hillary Clinton and accused war criminal Henry Kissinger
Octafish
Jun 2016
#67
I would respond to this calumny in my inimitable way but Skinner asked me to be nice.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
#53
I would respond to this calumny in my inimitable way but Skinner asked me to be nice.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
#59
I am trying to help you. I want you around after we go into G E mode
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
#66
Banksters! BCCI and Marc Rich were two of those thousand points of green light.
Octafish
Jun 2016
#89
An intelligent person listens to ALL opinions. It helps in not repeating those same mistakes.
tonyt53
Jun 2016
#103
If Kissinger has a house in the DR that he, Hillary and Bill go to for holidays, why can't they
2cannan
Jun 2016
#114
Another learning curve kick for the real DU reality-based community. n/t
bobthedrummer
Jun 2016
#140