Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain has kicked protesters out of a budget hearing, calling them “low-life scum.”
The upheaval came Thursday on Capitol Hill after members of an anti-war group calling itself Code Pink approached a witness table where former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George P. Shultz were testifying. The protesters carried signs calling the 91-year-old Kissinger a war criminal.
“Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes!” the protesters chanted.
McCain shot back, “Get out of here, you low-life scum.”
Capitol Police removed the protesters from the room.
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This is absolutely disgraceful of McCain for defending a war criminal. I've lost the tiny amount of respect I've had for McCain, which wasn't very much.
Some background info on Kissinger's crimes if those are unaware: In Chile, Kissinger helped Augusto Pinochet overthrow the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, sent thousands of political dissidents to their deaths, and installed a military dictatorship (fascism). From 1969 through 1973, Kissinger, working for Richard Nixon, oversaw the slaughter in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, which led to the deaths of millions of people. Many thousands more died from the affects of massive doses of Agent Orange and from unexploded US bombs that cover the countryside. Later, in 1975, while working for President Gerald Ford, Kissinger pre-approved the Indonesian dictator Suharto’s bloody invasion of the small island of East Timor. This illegal act of aggression was carried out with weapons furnished by the US. By the time the Indonesian occupation finally ended in 1999, 200,000 Timorese – 30 percent of the population – had been wiped out (in other words, genocide).
Kissinger is a war criminal, for starting illegal wars, overthrowing elected leaders, dropping chemical weapons, or committing slaughter and genocide against those helpless. Sadly, he will most likely not be charged, and history, at least in America, will forget his heinous war crimes and crimes against Humanity.
What are your thoughts on McCain calling the protesters "low life scum"? Also, what are your thoughts on Henry Kissinger?
I think both are scum, personally.
