HA-ha!

MONTEVIDEO (AFP) - An attorney for a victim of Uruguay’s 1973-1985 dictatorship has asked his government to request the extradition of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger over his alleged role in the notorious Operation Condor.  Read more 

As we all know, Henry Kissinger has, “Jeff Gannon” style, been discreetly slipping into the Bush Bunker White House to give Inerrant Boy advice. So, it’s interesting that Henry the K just published an Op-Ed in the the United Arab Emirates Khaleej Times Online, and not in Pravda on the Potomac or Izvestia on the Hudson. (Readers? I’m Googling on this article, and can’t find it anywhere else.) I imagine that’s because Kissinger imagines that, when he makes a case for continuous war without end, the autocrats of the oil states in the Gulf are a more appropriate audience than the people who do the dying, the voting, and the paying: The American people. After all, Our Henry’s an Aristocrat like the rest of the Beltway Wienie Chompers. That said, Henry always has been a fine writer:  Read more 

This will probably be another desultory post of mine, but three stories I read today seem worth talking about. The first is from the WaPo in which War Criminal and “statesman” of the First Iraq dribbles these little pearls of wisdom. I can’t believe he’s not dead yet:

He said Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been telling Bush and Cheney that “in Iraq, he declared very simply, ’Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.’”  Read more