Henry Kissinger is in hospital in Korea.

[Gatekeeper]

Get well Henry K.

 

[Xenophon]

Yeah, in 1975.

US Ground forces were gone by 1972, and completely gone by 1973.

Nonetheless, that's still four long years because Nixon and his people (Kissinger included) were fucking around and playing politics while unwilling soldiers were dying or having their lives otherwise destroyed for no good reason.

You seem to have a rather distorted sense of history.

The guy that 'fucked around and played politics' was LBJ.

Nixon inherited the problem.

I hear when you do that, its never your fault, at least according to a certain current POTUS.

 

[RodISHI]

Everyone has inherited problems Xenophon. When do we demand that they actually get through those problems and clean it up?

 

[Xenophon]

Since Nixon ended US involvement in teh war, it appears he did handle it.

 

[Political Junky]

Kissinger is a war criminal. I'm surprised he travels abroad at all.

 

[RodISHI]

Kissinger released from Seoul hospital - UPI.com

SEOUL, Japan, March 14 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was discharged Sunday from a Seoul hospital where he was treated for a stomach virus.

Dr. John Linton of Yonsei Severance Hospital said Kissinger was "in good spirits" after a check-up, an MRI and X-rays found nothing serious, CNN reported.

Kissinger, 86, was admitted to the hospital Saturday after complaining of stomach pain.

Kissinger arrived in Seoul Wednesday for a security forum and met with President Lee Myung-bak Friday.

Kissinger, now chairman of a consulting firm, served as secretary of state in the 1970s under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho for negotiating a treaty to end the Vietnam War.

Kissinger underwent triple coronary bypass surgery in 1982 and had an angioplasty five years ago.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

History will record him as one of our greatest men. Get well Henry, we are praying for you.

Kissinger is the only American I'd consider being a 'war criminal' if only because of his double dealings to be on the winning side in the 1968 election.

It was his plan with Nixon that ended up doubling the deaths of Americans in Vietnam.
Vietnam War casualties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


then there is this argument:

The Case Against Henry Kissinger
Part One
The making of a war criminal
by Christopher Hitchens
Harpers magazine, March 2001

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I have nothing but disdain for a man who plays politics from the comfort of home while other men die on the battlefield of an uneccesary and meaningless war.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I have nothing but disdain for a man who plays politics from the comfort of home while other men die on the battlefield of an uneccesary and meaningless war.

Kissinger didn't start that war. He found a way for us to extricate ourselves from that quagmire without suffering additional unnecessary casualties

revisionist history.

 

[RodISHI]

I doubt they gave him an agent orange bath while his was there.

 

[Xenophon]

Kissinger is a war criminal. I'm surprised he travels abroad at all.

No he isn't.

BTW, I don't recall any country saying they would arrest giap or Ho when they were alive, and both actually were 'war criminals.'