New York Times: 12/24/08, pp A14.
April 1972, President Richard Nixon got on the phone with his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger.
“They dropped a million pounds of bombs.” Mr. Kissinger said.
“God damn, that must have been a good strike!” Mr. Nixon said.
But then, “Johnson bombed them for years and it didn’t do any good.”
“But, Mr. President, Johnson never had a strategy. He was sort of picking away at them. He would go in with 50 planes, 20 planes. I bet you we will have had more planes over there in one day than Johnson had in a month.”
Add to this the bombing of Cambodia and Laos. The destruction of the democratically elected government of Chili and you have a picture of American terrorists, un-indicted war criminals.
I get sick to my stomach and enraged each time I see the press trot Henry Kissinger out to make a pronouncement on some currant crisis. Why isn’t he in jail? Because he is our War Criminal.
Why is he still alive? I think he is afraid to die.
It is hard to be reminded at this time of the year.
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