Christopher Hitchens on the crimes of Henry Kissinger 2/6

Christopher Hitchens details his research on the war crimes of Henry Kissinger.
Hitchens details Kissinger's involvement in assassination, torture and mass murder
in in Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, Bangladesh, and the USA.

This speech was given on the book tour for Hitchens's book: 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger'
Portland, Oregon April 18, 2001

Part 2/6

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News & Politics

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• Christopher Hitchens
• Henry Kissinger
• Richard Nixon
• Gerald Ford
• Lyndon Johnson
• Robert MacNamara
• War Crimes
• Vietnam
• Cambodia
• Chile
• Bangladesh
• Argentina
• Augosto Pinochet
• genocide
• Seymour Hersh

[BigCasinoable]

Fantastically compelling video.

[2PaperTigers]

Does anyone know what became or if there was ever a suit filed?

[TheNovelty8theory]

@Killerjosh89 it was attacked by terrorists but these terrorists were trained by the CIA and bin laden more than likely on the CIA payroll. Building 7 was the biggest giveaway and to believe that building fell by fire is delusional!! To have Kissinger investigating 9/11 is like having hitler investigate the mass genocide of the Jews in ww2! People need to wake up and see to truth.

[wovokanarchy]

@mclark1972 Can you provide any evidence as to the "numerous instances'' of Hitchen's assessment of Bush's "realpolitik'' of the Iraq War. I highly doubt George Bush even understands the concept of realpolitik in any give situation.

[mclark1972]

@wovokanarchy Hitchens challenged the popular notion at that time by many right-wing commentators and Bush officials that the Persian Gulf War was a "just war." He pointed out numerous instances that showed that the Bush administration only had real politick interests in throwing out Saddam out of Kuwait, and were not interested in preserving human rights or justice in the region.

[Killerjosh89]

i dont believe in the 9/11 conspiracy- islamic terrorist did attack us on 9/11, however why would the bush administration have henry kissinger lead the 9/11 commission report and official story? always been strange to me

[wovokanarchy]

@blackaddera Why did Hitchens oppose the first Gulf war in Iraq back in 90/91 ?

[blackaddera]

@Lawlow1978 I think Hitchens' reasons to attack Iraq are ligit for his arguement is that it was not ethical to let Sadam torture, murder and suppress the iraqi's anylonger. Unfortunatly Bush and his clan did not handle the after war well, Instead of letting the army police till a transition was inplace he ordered them to do nothing. in other words the war was just but mishandled and fought for the wrong reason. Unfortunatly for Hitch cause his reputation suffered by it

[wovokanarchy]

@Quex01 Actually I've read his Hitch 22 and his family was not rich at all. His mother commited suicide and his father was an absent taciturn alcoholic.

[Quex01]

@wovokanarchy What did you expect? He is an establishment guy since birth.

[JLDoggard]

@roussean23 Yeah, I'm kind of dumbfounded by his position on Iraq. But I haven't got round to watching those videos fully, so I await education by the Hitch :)