Henry Kissinger and the crimes of American imperialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Many were simply massacred by American troops even as Nixon and Kissinger voiced the usual lies about America defending "freedom" and "democracy" against Communism.
55% : While Kissinger was secretary of state, George H. W. Bush, the future president, was CIA director.
51% : The crimes of American imperialism were now embellished with cynical references to the "humanitarian" concerns supposedly determining the actions of the CIA, Pentagon and State Department.
48% : Kissinger's crimesKissinger was directly in charge of US foreign policy as National Security adviser and then as secretary of state, from 1969 to 1976, a critical period of worldwide revolutionary upsurge of the working class and oppressed peoples.
45% : There were equally reactionary events in other parts of the world in which Kissinger is implicated: the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975; the military slaughter in Bangladesh in 1971; US support and aid for dictatorial regimes in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Saudi Arabia and Iran; US support for the ultra-right insurgencies against nationalist regimes in Angola and Mozambique; US backing for the Canberra Coup, which ousted the elected Labor Party government of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
40% : Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mask of AnarchyA commentary in the liberal Jewish publication Forward suggests that these lines from Shelley, directed against Lord Castlereagh, the reactionary British foreign minister of his time, would apply equally well to Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, who turned 100 years old on Friday, May 27.
38% : While he lived to be 100 years old and advised 12 presidents, Kissinger is most hated by the people of the world for the crimes he perpetrated and oversaw from 1969 through 1975, in the Nixon and Ford administrations, when he controlled foreign policy as National Security Council director and then as secretary of state.

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