Henry Kissinger: Hillary Clinton's Mentor

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Henry Kissinger - Hillary Clinton's Mentor Henry Kissinger was a former national security adviser and Secretary of State during the late 60’s and 70’s. In 2014 Clinton reviewed Kissinger’s new world order book and called him a friend whose counsel she had relied on. A friend is a bit of an understatement, the two regularly take winter holidays together with his wife Nancy in the Dominican Republic. The two are very very good friends and share many of the same ideologies and practices. Greg Grandin, a history professor at the New York University, summed up Henry Kissinger quite nicely. Kissinger prolonged the Vietnam War for five pointless years. He illegally bombed Cambodia and Laos. Goaded Nixon to wiretap staffers and journalists, Bore …show more content…

Supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America and ingratiated himself within the first-generations of Neocans such as Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, who had taken American militarism into its next calamitous level. And if that wasn’t enough, here are some terrible quotes by Henry Kissinger that were recently released by WikiLeaks. “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern, maybe a humanitarian concern.” “How many people did Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Leng Sary kill? Tens of thousands? You tell the Cambodians, I the Khmer Rouge, that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs but we won’t let that stand in the way. We are prepared to improve relations with them. Tell them the latter part but don’t tell them what I said before.” “It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering the assassination. I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for

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