DID YOU KNOW?
" While
you probably didn't hear about this because of the poor quality of "news"
in the USA, Henry had to "curtail" his trip to France and probably
won't be going
back there any time soon. Hitchens lays out a concise, compelling case
for the
indictment of the evilest man to ever win a Noble Prize of any sort,
let alone for
peace. If there was ANY justice in the world, the self-aggrandizing Dr.
Kissinger
would be sitting in a cell in the Hague, awaitng trial."
US Secretary
of State & National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger: Poatmodern
Aristotelian Logics &
Syllogism:
A
Democratic Politician is ... "A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger
is a
stupendous liar with
a remarkable memory."
This Plato already taught in his Academy, in The Republic!
"The charges themselves
are astonishing, as they link Kissinger to war casualties in
Vietnam, massacres in
Bangladesh and Timor, and assassinations in Chile, Cyprus,
and Washington,
D.C. "
" ... specific charges
of Kissinger's responsibility for mass killings of civilians,
genocide,
assassinations, kidnapping, murder and conspiracy involving Indochina,
East
Timor, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Greece... read more."
Now, who is really
"democratic", wants "world peace", fights against
'international
terrorism"?
Whatamansay?
How dey ken lie, man!!! This is bad, bad, bad!!!
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Date:
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:28:09 -0700
From:
Carl Zimmeman <czfz@earthlink.net>
To:
franzjutta@cantv.net, jutta@aktionspotenzial.de, billlyne@earthlink.net,
scott@imatech.com, kh9syl@sprint.ca
Hi, folks:
I'm posting this review to
show how the NWO economic elites work, not
to put the blame entirely
on Kissinger. He served his masters' well.
Thanks to Scott for calling
my attention to this book.
Carl
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Christopher Hitchens doesn't mince words when it comes to Henry Kissinger,
the
former secretary of state and national-security advisor: Kissinger deserves
vigorous prosecution "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and
for
offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy
to commit murder, kidnap, and torture." The Trial of Henry Kissinger is
a
masterpiece of polemics; even readers who don't agree that its target is
an
emanation of "official evil" will appreciate the verve and style brought
to
Hitchens's fiery brief. ("A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger
is a
stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.")
The book is best understood as a prosecutorial document--both because Hitchens
limits his critique to what he believes might stand up in an international
court of
law following precedents set at Nuremberg and elsewhere, and also because
his
treatment of Kissinger is far from evenhanded. The charges themselves are
astonishing, as they link Kissinger to war casualties in Vietnam, massacres
in
Bangladesh and Timor, and assassinations in Chile, Cyprus, and Washington,
D.C. After reading this book, one wants very badly to hear a full response
from
the defendant. Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair and The Nation, is a
man of the
Left, though he has a history of skewering both Democrats (he is the author
of a
provocative book on the Clintons, No One Left to Lie To) as well as Republicans
(Kissinger).
At the root of this latest effort is moral outrage, and a call for Americans,
of all
people, not to ignore Kissinger's record: "They can either persist in averting
their
gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and
lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which
they
continually hold everyone else," writes Hitchens. "If the courts and lawyers
of
this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and
survivors of
this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking
way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame." --John J.
Miller
From Publishers Weekly
The arrest of Augusto Pinochet signaled a significant shift in enforcing
international law, noticed by Henry Kissinger if not others. Vanity Fair
columnist
Hitchens (No One Left to Lie To, etc.), a self-described "political opponent
of
Henry Kissinger," writes to remedy the awareness gap, focusing on specific
charges of Kissinger's responsibility for mass killings of civilians, genocide,
assassinations, kidnapping, murder and conspiracy involving Indochina,
East
Timor, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Greece... read more
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19 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
An exceptional book, June 17, 2001
Reviewer: Chris Green (see more about me) from Edgewood, WA USA
Mr. Hitchens starts his case against Kissinger with a rather shaky
argument, to wit, that Dr. Kissinger collaborated with the Nixon campaign
in
1968 in helping "sabotage" the Johnson administration's negotiations in
Paris on
Vietnam through its friends in the South Vietnamese government. But after
that
he really starts to pick up the slack and puts forth really first rate
stuff.
His presentation on Kissinger's role in the slaughter in Indochina is important
enough though I think he might have left out some juicy stuff e.g. Kissinger's
acts
in the 72-73 negotiations with North Vietnam, the Christmas bombings, and
so on
though he might have been able to include it if he hadn't spent so much
time
belaboring the 68' elections. He points out from the internal record and
other
sources some banal stuff about the U.S. deliberately bombing civilians
in order to
destroy the infrastructure provided to the resistance fighters, that is
the
infrastructure of the populations of Laos (I believe the "secret" bombing
started in
this country back in the mid-60's not in 69' as Hitchens seems to imply)
,
Cambodia and Vietnam as demonstrated in the operation at the beginning
of 69'
called "Speedy Express."
He goes on to discuss Kissinger's attempt to protect the generals in Pakistan
as
they slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people as a prelude to the granting
of
independence to "East Pakistan" Bangladesh in 1971 and the making of a
military
show of force against India, Bangladesh's supporter, who inspired Kissinger's
rage at being disturbed in the conduct of his "ping pong" diplomacy with
China
through Pakistan, which is to say ruining potential photo ops for him though
it
seems that mostly he detested Bangladesh's new leader Sheikh Mujib as a
sort of
independent nationalist and helped block crucial assistance to this badly
malnourished country and seems to have been well aware of the plans and
the
implementation of a coup which killed Mujib in 1975.
He discusses Kissinger's role in helping Turkey's aggression against Cyprus
in
1974. Cyprus had been subjected to much subversion by both the fascist
regimes
in both Greece and Turkey and the colonels regime in Greece had launched
a
coup in Cyprus in July 1974 against the democratically elected Archbishop
Makarios but not before they themselves suffered the happy result of being
overthrown but Turkey invaded in response conducting a reign of mass ethnic
cleansing against Cyprus's majority Greek population as was reported in
1976 by
the European commission on human rights.
He discusses Kissinger's role in the subversion of the democratic process
in Chile,
his funding of far right wing groups and military officers, economic
destabalization and a supposed attempted kidnapping but which resulted
in the
murder of General Rene Schneider in Chile shortly before Allende took office
and
was confirmed by the Chilean parliament. He gives an all too brief account
of
Operation Condor the association of the National Security States of South
America (Videla's Argentina, Pinochet's Chile, Stroesnner's Paraguay, etc.)
which
cooperated in the assassination and kidnapping of perhaps hundreds of South
American dissidents.
He goes on to discuss Kissinger's support for Indonesia's mass slaughter
in East
Timor and how obviously he and Ford gave the approval for the invasion
when
they visited Indonesia two days before it took place and approved new arms
sales
to Indonesia whose military at the time was ninety percent armed by the
United
States. This chapter contains a transcript of a question and answer session
of a
1995 Kissinger lecture about one of his latest books when he was confronted
by
Alan Nairn and Amy Goodman, two of the most courageous supporters of East
Timor, and Constancio Pinto, the East Timorese resistance fighter. Kissinger
lied
through his teeth ("the United States can't solve all the world's
problems"........We had no idea the invasion was going to take place,"
etc.) as he
usually does and became somewhat belligerent when Nairn's argument started
to
get really devastating but fortunately for him he had a lot of supporters
in the
audience who booed and shouted down the questioners. It also contains the
transcript of a very angry Kissinger meeting with his subordinates on December
18 1975 a week and a half after the invasion of East Timor demanding to
know
why the issue of the legality of Indonesia's invasion and the U.S. selling
weapons
to it was brought up in a state department cable which, of course, could
be leaked
to congress and the media and create difficulties for Kissinger and his
public
image and towards the end declaring that "I don't care if we sell weapons
to
Indonesia or not. I get nothing from it, I get no rakeoff."
He devotes a chapter to showing pretty persuasively that Kissinger was
in on the
plans of the colonels in Greece to kidnap and murder a famous, respected
and
well connected Greek dissident journalist living in Washington D.C.
He devotes a section to Kissinger's career as a lobbyist for multinational
corporations seeking to do business with some of the most vile regimes
in the
world from Burma to Iraq to Indonesia (even the U.S. government's Overseas
Private Investment Corporations decided to cancel insurance for political
risk for
Kissinger's associates at Freeport McMoran which had created an environmental
and social catastrophe in its Grasberg mine in Irian Jaya) and in this
capacity
uttered an immortal defense of the massacre of demonstrators in Beijing
in June
1989: "No government in the world would have tolerated having the main
square
of its capital occupied for eight weeks by tens of thousands of demonstrators."
He even tries to link Kissinger with one his prime bugaboos of the last
decade,
Slobodan Milosevic.
Another reviewer brings up a question of Hitchens's "credibility." I personally
don't care if he slandered Clinton. What worried me more, since we are
on the
subject of war crimes, was his violent support for one of Clinton's greatest
war
crimes, the attack on Yugoslavia, using arguments so absurd, which he is
unfortunately still making, that it was hard to belive he was seriously
making
them. But anycase we are not dealing with what Mr. Hitchens may or may
not
have done in the past or what he may or may not be but what he has done
with
this particular book. This book is superb and honest and free of the preposterous
stuff he has been afflicting his readers with in the past few years. I
don't care
how many times he goes to speak to David Horowitz's Wednesday Morning Club
or gives Chris Mathews some agreeable platitudes on "Hardball" as long
as he
keeps doing stuff like this.
I think his treatment of the "overfed" NGO's and human rights organizations
is
somewhat unfair. Many of them do outstanding work on human rights issues
while depending substantially for support on powerful interests. Going
after
Pinochet is one thing; but going after a chief ornament of the American
empire
might get them into serious trouble. At most any legal action against Kissinger
would be symbolic but it is probably worth the effort. More effort perhaps
should
be made to concentrate on the current occupant of the white house or rather
the
current occupant's advisors who have already committed one clear war crime
(bombing Iraq) and are sure to commit many more (Colombia, Iraq or who
knows where else).
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24 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer, July 4, 2001
Reviewer: Austin Cooley (see more about me) from Houston, TX USA
Christopher Hitchens offers up a brutal condemnation of one of the most
odious
politicians of the 20th Century. From derailing the Paris Peace talks in
1968,
thereby getting Richard Nixon elected President, to formenting genocide
in East
Timor, Kissinger certainly is an accomplished sociopath. In June of this
year
(2001) Timothy McVeigh was executed; Slobodan Milosevic was placed on trial
in July. Yet Kissinger, whose crimes against humanity far outweigh both
McViegh's and Milosevic's, remains free to continue to reap the rewards
of his
murderous work. Still, Henry must be sleeping a little less easily these
days,
having been subpoenaed by a French court investigating the "disappearence"
of
French citizens in one of Kissinger's "client states", Pinochet's Chile.
While you
probably didn't hear about this because of the poor quality of "news" in
the USA,
Henry had to "curtail" his trip to France and probably won't be going back
there
any time soon. Hitchens lays out a concise, compelling case for the indictment
of
the evilest man to ever win a Noble Prize of any sort, let alone for peace.
If there
was ANY justice in the world, the self-aggrandizing Dr. Kissinger would
be sitting
in a cell in the Hague, awaitng trial. Essential reading.
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