when you and President Nixon conceived of the bombing of Cambodia you you did it in order to interdict come on we have been bombing with drones and all kinds of weapons every Gilla unit that we were opposing it's been the same in every administration of either party the consequences in Cambodia we're particular no no no we're we're particular this is a program you're doing because I'm going to be 100 years old right and you're picking a topic of something that happened 60 years ago you have to know that it was a necessary step now the
younger generation feels that if they can raise their emotions they don't have to think if if they think they won't ask that question on March 18th 1969 during the Vietnam war the US secretly began what would become a long and Relentless bombing campaign in neighboring Cambodia had there been an international criminal Tribunal for Cambodia prosecutors would have had a field day with US president Richard Nixon and his National Security adviser and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger establishing genocidal intent with these two would be a cakewalk on December 9th 1970 Nixon would phone Kissinger to
discuss the ongoing bombing of Cambodia you see operation menu as it was called was only an escalation of the bombing up to this point close to 500,000 tons of bombs had already been dropped on Cambodia 5 minutes after getting off of the call Kissinger called General Alexander hay to relay the new orders from the president he wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia he doesn't want to hear anything it's in order it's to be done anything that flies on anything that moves you got that on December 29th 2023 Henry Alfred Kissinger died in his home
in Kent Connecticut at the age of 100 his death has been met with an outpouring of sympathy and affection from major American news outlets which may be even more troubling than his legacy The Washington Post along with a lengthy obituary published a short piece on his quote carpet bombing of Cambodia in it the authors write Ben Kieran a historian at Yale University and a leading scholar of the US Legacy in Cambodia has estimated that around 500,000 tons of us bombs were dropped on Cambodia interestingly enough this figure is from a paper that Kieran wrote In
1989 called the American bombardment of campuchia where he cites a figure of 540,000 tons however either unbeknownst to the editorial staff at the Washington Post or insidiously omitted Ben Kieran actually wrote another lesser known article published in the Canadian walrus magazine in collaboration with Owen Taylor at the University of Oxford this article was reporting that in 2000 upon a state visit to Vietnam President Bill Clinton announced that he would release extensive Air Force data on All American bombings during the Vietnam war from the years 1964 to 1975 the still incomplete database reveals that from October
4th 1965 to August 15th 1973 the United States dropped far more ordinance on Cambodia than was previously believed 2,756 n41 tons worth to put 2,756 1941 tons into perspective the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all of World War II Cambodia may be the most heavily bombed country in history moreover the two announced the data released by Clinton shows the total payload dropped during these years to be nearly five times greater than the generally accepted figure Nick tur author of kill anything that moves the real American war in Vietnam has clearly
been prepared to write Kissinger's obit for years tur can appropriately be called America's leading expert if not a foremost expert worldwide on American war crimes during the Vietnam war his book is probably the only one of it kind solely dedicated to chronologize these crimes in detail Kissinger helped to prolong the Vietnam War and expand the conflict into neutral Cambodia facilitated genocides in Cambodia East teamour and Bangladesh accelerated civil wars in southern Africa and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America he had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands according to
his biographer Greg gron he quotes Reed Brody who worked on the pinoe case in the UK few people have had a hand in as much death and destruction as much human suffering in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger Kissinger was born in Germany born in the Bavarian town of fth in 1923 he was actually born hin at 15 his family escaped the Holocaust although at least 13 of their relatives would perish in concentration camps in the US he became Henry Henry was withdrawn and bookish in 1943 he was drafted into the Army
and went on to lead raids in gapo houses earning himself a bronze star he attended Harvard University where he wrote a lengthy doctoral dissertation called A World restored about European diplomacy following the fall of Napoleon from Harvard he was placed in an elite study group at the Council on Foreign Relations studying nuclear policy his work nuclear weapons and foreign policy gave him cache at Harvard and in foreign policy circles he naturally became a consultant to the Kennedy and later the Johnson administrations in 1968 he was offered a job in the Nixon Administration to his admirers
he was the brilliant architect of pax Americana the chess Grandmaster to his detractors and even some friends and former employees he was vain conspiratorial arrogant and short-tempered a man capable of praising a top Aid as indispensable while ordering the FBI to illegally tap his home phones to see if he was leaking to the Press he was lauded for foreign policy successes as the impressario of Nixon's historic opening to China and as the theoretician of deant with the Soviet Union Dr Kissinger earned much of the credit for seismic policy shifts that redirected the course of world
affairs with his German accent incisive wit owlish looks and zest for socializing in Hollywood and dating movie stars he was instantly recognized all over the world in stark contrast to most of his understated predecessors foreign policy expert Alfred W McCoy of the University of Wisconsin Madison has long been unimpressed by his record writing in 2017 Henry Kissinger was as inept as he was ruthless extending the Vietnam War by seven bloody years to mask his diplomatic fail failure turning East teamour over to Indonesia for decades of Slaughter until its inevitable Independence cratering us credibility in Latin
America by backing a murderous military dictatorship in Chile and mismanaging Moscow in ways that helped extend the Cold War by 15 years Kissinger's career as international law specialist Richard Faulk observed has been marked by his extraordinary capacity to be repeatedly wrong about almost every major foreign policy decision made by the US government over the course of the last half century it appears Kissinger's record in Bangladesh was too grave for the New York Times to ignore as the Washington Post did perhaps the most egregious episode came in the signals to Pakistan that it was free to
deal with Bengali and East Pakistan as it saw fit indeed when Pakistan's us-backed military was waging a genocidal war in East Pakistan now Bangladesh in 19 1971 he and Nixon not only ignored pleas from the American Consulate in East Pakistan to stop the massacre but they approved weapon shipments to Pakistan including the apparent illegal transfer of 10 fighter bombers from Jordan the human cost was horrific at least 300,000 people were killed in East Pakistan and 10 million refugees were driven into India they also add East teamour to his list of dastardly Deeds a country The
Washington Post did not even name a single time he and president V approved Indonesia's invasion of East teamour in December 1975 leading to a disastrous 24-year occupation by a us-backed military Declassified documents released in 2001 by the National Security archive indicate that Ford and Mr Kissinger knew of the invasion plans months in advance and were aware that the use of American Arms would violate US law I know what the law is he said they reported that more than 100,000 East team Wares were killed or starved to death what they don't say is that that is
a conservative estimate and the number could be as high as 180,000 or up to a quarter of the entire population they also don't mention that according to the un's truth commission set up after the Indonesian withdrawal that mass starvation was used as a weapon of War of course one has to mention the notorious Operation Condor unmentioned by the New York Times or the Washington Post but like I said Nick tur was prepared you did a great service to the West in overthrowing aende Kissinger later told General austo Pinos the leader of the military hun that
went on to kill thousands of Chileans in Argentina Kissinger gave another green light this time to a terror campaign of torture forced disappearances and murder Murder by a military hun that overthrew president Isabel Peron during a June 1976 meeting Kissinger told the Hun's for ad Minister if there are things that have to be done you should do them quickly the so-called dirty war that followed would claim the lives of an estimated 30,000 Argentine civilians tur reminds us that Kissinger stoked a war in Angola and prolonged departe in South Africa in the Middle East he sold
out the Kurds in Iraq after Washington Kissinger became wealthy through founding a consulting firm Kissinger Associates tur writes The Firm leveraged Kissinger's reputation and contacts to help huge multinational corporations Banks and financial institutions including American Express anheiser Bush Coca-Cola Hines Fiat Volvo Ericson and deu broker deals with governments the New York Times put it like so when Disney sought to navigate the Chinese leadership to build a $5.5 billion Park in Shanghai Mr Kissinger got the call Kissinger also continued to write policy recommendations and articles and advised every single president from Nixon onwards indeed current Secretary
of State Anthony blinkin said upon Kissinger's death that he had sought counsel from the former diplomatic Chief many times including most recently about a month ago those who may be dismayed at how long Kissinger was able to live may have some solace in the fact that a mind that could unleash such hideous man-made Horrors onto Untold millions of people throughout the world and do so without hesitation or apology will never speak or advise another sitting Us official for the rest of time and we can all breathe a deep sigh of relief for that
