John McCain and Henry Kissinger
Only the surreal strategists who manage John McCain's presidential campaign would divine to top an endorsement by Sen. Joe "nothing but good news from Iraq" Lieberman with one that will give thinking Americans -- and a frightened world -- greater cause for alarm.
So it is that, on the heels of the Connecticut senator's campaign swing on behalf of McCain, comes the news that the Arizona senator is making the circuit with an even more disturbing advocate for even more disturbing foreign policies: Henry Kissinger.
The former secretary of state, whose name is synonymous in the civilized world with the term "war criminal" and whose sleazy business deals have advanced the interests of dictators, has added the dubious distinction of his support to the McCain campaign. So discredited is Kissinger that when President Bush proposed him as the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, there was near universal objection.
Kissinger is not conflicted about McCain. "I believe now that he's the best candidate to serve our nation in an extremely difficult and complicated period," he says.
Even more frightening, for McCain it's all about the next Cold War.
"We now face this threat of radical Islamic extremism," says McCain. "One of the reasons I feel so strongly about America's image in the world is because I think we'll win this struggle the same way we won the Cold War."
Those who amuse themselves with the notion that McCain is not that bad a player -- an old political misread given new life by his position on torture -- would do well to figure into their calculations the Kissinger factor. If the darkest player in post-World War II American foreign policy says a man should be president, that man definitely should not be president.
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22 Comments so far
Show AllWell, that fourth guy up there with the other dem candidates, Bill Richardson, worked for Henry the K all the way back in 1973 in the Nixon Whitehouse and he was still working for him when he first ran for Governor of New Mexico in 2002 - at that time as executive director of Kissinger/McClarty Associates. Doesn't talk much about it now does he?
It's a case for pasture: McCain turned out to it -- Kissinger turned under it.
I read a headline that said the Rudy was considering Cheney for VP. Maybe these Repug candidates are losing it in the final days.
Yep, Search Sidney Gottlieb drug experiments.
There is nothing, in my view, about being a fighter pilot and a prisoner-of-war which portends the ability to run our nation. Other than those credentials, which I admire, this guy is just another megalomaniacal hack.
I'm glad you're getting to see the big picture, folks.
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
What's amazing is that they (kissinger et al) have the balls to postion themselves in the public eye as credible - unfortunately there are (too) many who still think that they represent a reasonable and supportable ideology - rock on. Liz
KISSINGER IS A MAIN BILDERBERG-GROUP MEMBER
Now and then the Bilderberg-group (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_group) - in which Kissinger plays an important role - surfaces with public plays and displays of power. Kissinger supporting John McCain's presidential campaign is an obvious example.
The Bilderberg-group members are not ashamed of their activities. They probably mean well at core, in the middle of causing havoc and war, and don't realize how deluded they are – because they think they are the ones doing the deluding . Or in a "delusion-circle" each in their minds refer to their powerful friends and acquaintances of as the ones more responsible for bad policies and excuses themselves through that thinking, not seeing their own "small" trickeries as significant. Not realizing, of course, that the deluding they do includes themselves. Or they're simply stuck on their justifications. They know they're doing their best, not wanting to know they're doing a lot of bad too. With the conclusions always up in the air, seldom accepting responsibilities for facts on the ground. With the conclusions always up in the air, seldom accepting responsibilities for facts on the ground.
"Kissinger a bad sort? - Can't be, he won the peace-prize, forever excused now, no matter what's been revealed later..."
The Bilderberg-group and their activities are no longer secret, only rather secretive. So everyone who wants to know what this financial-political elite of the world is up to only need to look. But it does take that - actively LOOKING - searching it out, to understand the group and the horribly exploitative end of world events. The passivity of the public is the Bilderberg-group's greatest shield.
So wake up, read behind the news, and tell the rich and powerful – which to half the planet's people means us billion with internet-access – that we want and need better equality and one standard for all.
Let's not forget that McCain is a war criminal himself. Cluster bombs, napalm, you name it. McCain proudly dropped all this stuff on the innocent civilians of North Vietnam until he was shot down and arrested for his horrendous crimes.
Kissinger did this deliberately to undercut McCain's chances; Kissinger is the "Kiss of Death", A Voice Apart.
(PNAC's work, not AIPAC's)
That John McCain (and Guliani too) are even around now is Exhibit A of how corporatized and f@#ked up our media is.
Speaking of kisses of death, what about Clinton's accepting Rupert Murdoch having a fund raiser for her?
The same McCain kowtowed to the leaders of the radical Christian Right.
The same McCain tried to look as though he were walking in a street in Bagdad (?) with a couple of troops around him. Then it was exposed that there as an entire phalanx of soldiers and helicopter gunships within a stone's throw.
The same McCain sang "Bomb Iran, Bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys Barbara Ann.
Kissinger- Wasn't he the guy who refused to say who his clients were and resigned from the 9/11 Commission? My first choice for persons to be handed over to the International Criminal Court.
There used to be a time when the slime stayed in the back rooms. Like Ghostbusters, this country is being overrun by the scum of political and power elite. 2008 will be a bumpy ride. 2009 even more so.
This year would be a good year to get the hell out of dodge....its looking like a smart idea by the day. Something big is in the works its coming I can feel it.
Skipper that's truly scary and probably on the mark.
So let me get this straight -- Obama supported Liebermann who, in turn, supports McCain?
Does it all ultimately lead to Kissinger or something?
AIPAC for all to see.
Would somebody please grab that stinking, oozing, festering pile of dreck and drag him off to Nuremberg, the Hague, or Geneva for the comeuppance he deserves?
I guess the trick, if you're going to be a criminal, is to be a Really Big Criminal. Just proves the real politics don't happen where you can see them.
Henry Kissinger is one of the biggest war criminals that this country has produced and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in Vietnam. If we can't try him in a court, maybe, just maybe there will be something worse than hell. But considering his age, I am wondering if he made some pact with the devil for everlasting life.
McCain's father covered up the bombing of the USS Liberty. No wonder his son is involved with Lieberman and Kissinger.
Kiss of Death = Kissinger
That he is still alive only proves the adage: only the good die young.
Holy and most merciful Jesus, I beseech thee return now to declare it isn't so:
Henry the K is coming out of retirement, returning even temporarily from the endless shuffling of oil and blood stained geld in the so-called private business sector, in order to stand upright publicly in the sunlight before the common people once again, gracing the grubby partisan campaign trail with his presence on behalf of John McCain?
Shall wonders never cease?
Well, this is what can happen when you let war criminals escape the long arm of the law, especially when they're semi-Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Like Count Dracula when the moon is full, they arise ominously, at the most inopportune moments, to venture forth across the country side spreading some dread new pestilence we all must later endure.
Is it only the people of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Guatemala, and Chile who remember this man's real world, realpolitik track record? Certainly Henry's reprise engagement on the partisan scene must warm Little George's heart, as he quietly ponders his own retirement plans.
The whole world is indeed watching, and folks out there notice things like this.
We ain't seen shit yet when it comes to blowback.
Bill from Saginaw
When the polls came out showing McCain as the best bet against the Democrats, that is when AIPAC made their choice, evidenced by trotting out Lieberman to endorse him.
Immediately, the "lost cause" candidate soared in the polls and is now predicted to take 2nd or 3rd in Iowa and 1st in NH. (If you had any doubt who is really running things.) I'll bet you this: there will be NO push polls in SC this time, mentioning McCain's "nervous disorder," nor lies of his "having fathered a bi-racial child."
Don't be surprised at a McCain/Lieberman ticket vs. a Clinton/Clark ticket if AIPAC gets their way. Clark backed Edwards last time, but has endorsed Clinton this time, and was in Iowa with her & Bill last night. A General could certainly strengthen a woman's ticket.
And besides, Clinton/Clark has a nice rhyme to it.
This would be a win-win for AIPAC, who always plays both sides of the field. Remember 2000. If the Bushes had failed to steal the election, they still had Lieberman as the Ace in the Hole.
So there you have it. VOTE EDWARDS.
Because the US is not moving forward in its social policies nor in its democratization of economic and social institutions, it is constantly regressing toward lower and lower and constipated levels of political discourse, action and news disemination.
Yes! The iron fist is out and swinging. It offers no apologies to those it smashes. THEY got in the way of PROGRESS (i.e., regress).
So it is no suprise when vampire jackals from former imperialist times and climes rise from their coffins to, again, bless us with their presence.
I can hear the increasingly loud slurping and sucking while these vampires draw into themselve more and more of the average world citizen's lifeblood.
When GW was appointed president in 2000 I remember Kissinger saying this: There is nothing short of an international incident that would unite the american people, I have no doubt the GW will unite the american people. (words to that affect)