Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

The director of the way overrated "Why We Fight" made this earlier film about Mr. Kissinger. Here are a few things I learned. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the war in Vietnam, which Kissinger helped needlessly extend because they were close to peace in 1968, when Kissinger undercut it so he could get a job with Nixon. He won the prize in 1973, but the war didn't end until 2 years later. He planned secret bombings in Cambodia, where more than 500,000 civilians died, which helped the Khmer Rouge come to power. Kissinger and Ford met Suharto right before Indonesia invaded East Timor, and they gave him the "green light" and let him use American weapons. He also supervised CIA involvement in the coup of Chile's democratically elected President Salvador Allende.

There. Now you know too, and you don't need to see the movie.

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