According to this film, and I have no reason to doubt it, Nixon and Kissinger were responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Viet Nam and Cambodia and later in East Timor that had nothing to do with U.S. national security.
They also ordered the CIA to get rid of a general in Chile, who was upholding that country's constitution, and to eliminate Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile. Both men were murdered by the CIA.
These actions were illegal and outside the bounds of normal U.S. policy. Of course, Kissinger never admitted them and has fixed it so his relevant papers remain secret until five years after his death.
I believe that Kissinger was reacting to the Holocaust deaths of his family members. Unconsciously, I think, his whole life is based on his attitude, you want death, I'll give you death. Power through brutality, that was his motto. He was brilliant and masterful at it.
We in this country think of ourselves as the good guys. We won WWII and stopped the Nazis and the Imperialist Japanese. Yes, we were the good guys, back then.
But since then? Not always. Take a look at this and decide for yourself. This documentary is shocking, because it shakes to the core our belief that we are the good guys.
Individually, we may be. But not our government. Certainly not Nixon and Kissinger. Take a look and decide for yourself.
-- Roger
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© Copyright 2011, Roger R. Angle
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It is my personal belief that Watergate was really a media cover to take the U.S publics attention away from S.E Asia so the U.S could bomb Cambodia secretly.
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