The former US diplomat’s actions caused, among others, 150,000 Cambodian civilians to die, an outlet investigation has claimed.
Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy eminence grise who has advised half a dozen US presidents, has caused the deaths of over 3 million people, according to an Intercept report published Tuesday to mark the realpolitik strategist’s 100th birthday.
While critics of the Nixon-era secretary of state and national security adviser often describe him as a war criminal for his pivotal role in numerous US-backed genocides and coups, the report argues Kissinger’s body count has been widely underestimated, particularly regarding the secretive, highly illegal expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia in the 1970s.
Between the genocides he sponsored in East Timor and Bangladesh, continent-wide terrorism, coups and death squads in Latin America (known as Operation Condor), the fomenting of civil wars in Southern Africa, and the carpet-bombing of Cambodia and Laos under the guise of chasing the Vietnamese, Kissinger is believed to be responsible for over 3 million civilian deaths – more if one counts the casualties that have resulted from advice he gave the private sector.
Kissinger has ‘only’ acknowledged that his actions caused the deaths of 50,000 Cambodians and blames the Vietnamese, the supposed targets of the US bombing campaign (the coordinates of which were logged incorrectly so as to be recorded as legal strikes within Vietnam).
Intercept reporter Nick Truse argues the number is closer to 150,000, pointing to numerous documented examples of egregious and deliberate undercounting of civilian casualties. The figure represents over six times more civilians than the US has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.
Transcripts from the Intercept’s “exclusive archive” of declassified US military documents from a secret Pentagon war crimes task force reveal it was Kissinger’s decision to relay then-president Richard Nixon’s often drunk, belligerent trash talk about Cambodia into coherent instructions to the Pentagon to begin a “massive bombing campaign” in the country in 1970.
Kissinger’s now-infamous directive to shoot “anything that flies on anything that moves” exploded the secret war, tripling the number of bombings by the end of the year. He allegedly approved all 3,875 individual bombings of the war, and the bombers dropped over 257,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia in 1973 alone.
The Intercept’s archive also revealed numerous brutal ground raids on Cambodian villages that have since been all but memory-holed; Truse confirmed via interviews with survivors that the raids were far deadlier than reported. While the airstrikes were frequently hushed up as “pilot error” – “errors” that were nevertheless repeated thousands of times – the US Army, in an internal investigation, actually blamed its press corps when ground troops were caught looting a village they had just raided.
Kissinger’s carpet-bombing of Cambodia paved the way for the Khmer Rouge, the genocidal dictatorship that killed 2 million Cambodians – 20% of the country’s population – which he privately (and approvingly) referred to as “murderous thugs” while helping them secure regional allies.
Kissinger has never been prosecuted – or even officially charged – with war crimes, nor has the US military made any systemic efforts to hold accountable the troops who actually did the killing.
Jewish community who suffered a great deal make now misuse of their shoa victims statute to intimidate and coerce others .
You would expect , with that kind of experience, that at least they respect life and promote peace. No, they are just as evil as their former persecutors or even worse. And many of them are now in a situation to decide the future of the usa
Kissinger was exposed by Lyndon LaRouch back in the 70’s.
LaRouch ended-up going to jail on…you guessed it…IRS Code violations.
LaRouch even ran for President at one time, as the damage that Kissinger and his J3wi$h-Zionist cronies were inflicting on the U.S. behind the scenes was truly appalling, not to mention the damage to other nations in that time frame.
Kissinger’s quotes are infamous, are are his plans for a ‘Greater Israel’ that will control the world and exploit the Goyim (us), and then murder the same en-masse when the Talmudic Zionists are finished with us!
‘God’s Chosen People’ (a mythical lie…!) have now destroyed the world’s economies, food supplies, and healthcare, media and militarised law enforcement now seek to go nuclear!
As david Icke has pointed out, once you wake up to the yamulk skull cappers and the undersized hat wearers with side dreadlocks, you will discover that YOU must find a way to get off your knees and out from under the Talmudic Noahide-Law genocidal Communist Bolshevik Zionist in short order.
DO NOT COMPLY with laws, programs and social engineering that these cursed people have implemented!
Totally agree.
‘God’s Chosen People’…I think THEY actually are.
If one looks at how they live,
look at what they think,
with whom they congregate,
how their relation is to other people,
look at how they brought their misery upon themselves since Abraham’s time,
look at how they segregate themselves from humanity with truly horrible and disgusting teachings (Talmud) and rituals,
therefore living in constant alertness, constantly looking over their shoulder,
look at their opportunism in regard to history and how they managed to ‘write’ it, israel is founded on this colossal lie,
look at the fraud and betrayal executed upon the Palestine people >>> IT IS ONE BIG FRIGGIN KONZENTRATION CAMP!!! <<<,
look at how the core of the lot has managed to wreck global economy and finance in megalomanic and psychopathic greed (reminds me of
rats eating their young when stressed)
look at the arrogance this culture emanates,
look at their self-inflicted situation, …..
If God has chosen THEM, then we ought to ask "for what?"
Imho (((THEY/THEM zionists, israel, j3ws))) are a God-damned people.