Henry Kissinger, America's Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies At 100

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : After serving as national security adviser under Nixon, Kissinger became secretary of state under President Gerald Ford.
54% : Hillary Clinton leaned on him for advice as secretary of state and called him a friend.
53% : Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks to State Department employees on Sept. 28, 1973.
52% : Because there are not enough churches for them, they went into the Department of State.
47% : The same year, Kissinger visited Brazil and showered praise on the country's military dictatorship, which had come to power in a coup in 1964, before Kissinger entered government.
47% : A country that so often predicates its concern for human rights on the specific humans in question, and in which elite accountability for even the most blatant crimes and abuses is so rare, seems to have made up its mind about morality's place in politics and public policy without much need for Kissinger's help.
45% : Near the end of his time as secretary of state, Kissinger relayed similar messages to Argentina's military dictatorship, which overthrew its government in 1976.
43% : " Kissinger, who became secretary of state just a month after Pinochet's coup, told State Department officials in October 1973 that the United States should not position itself as a defender of the military regime's human rights abuses.
41% : Samantha Power, who served as Obama's ambassador to the United Nations, often criticized Kissinger and argued that human rights should play a much more prominent role in American foreign policy.
38% : Kissinger served as secretary of state and national security adviser under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, positions that allowed him to direct the Vietnam War and the broader Cold War with the Soviet Union, and to implement a stridently "realist" approach that prioritized U.S. interests and domestic political success over any potential atrocity that might occur.
32% : And the U.S. government has carried out decades of endless war that have resulted in significant civilian death tolls, the expanded use of torture, indefinite detention, illegal rendition and extrajudicial murder since Kissinger left government.
26% : Former President George H.W. Bush, who served as ambassador to the United Nations under Nixon, described Kissinger as paranoid, according to Princeton historian and Kissinger critic Greg Bass, and this paranoia about communism appeared repeatedly during his career.

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