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{{Important}}{{Villain_Infobox|image = Henry Kissinger today.jpg|fullname = Henry Alfred Kissinger|alias = Heinz Alfred Kissinger|occupation = Secretary of State (formerly)<br>National Security Adviser (formerly)|skills = Foreign advisor for Nixon and Ford (formerly) | {{Important}} | ||
{{Villain_Infobox|image = Henry Kissinger today.jpg|fullname = Henry Alfred Kissinger|alias = Heinz Alfred Kissinger|occupation = Secretary of State (formerly)<br>National Security Adviser (formerly)|skills = Foreign advisor for Nixon and Ford (formerly) | |||
Living a life of relative ease as a celebrated war hero, despite his [[crimes against humanity]].|hobby = Bombing Cambodia and Vietnam | Living a life of relative ease as a celebrated war hero, despite his [[crimes against humanity]].|hobby = Bombing Cambodia and Vietnam | ||
Denying his [[war crimes]]|goals = Bomb Cambodia to kill North Vietnamese soldiers (succeeded) | Denying his [[war crimes]]|goals = Bomb Cambodia to kill North Vietnamese soldiers (succeeded) | ||
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Support brutal dictatorships in Chile and Cambodia (succeeded) | Support brutal dictatorships in Chile and Cambodia (succeeded) | ||
Get away with war crimes, and be deemed as a hero instead (succeeded)|type of villain = Celebrated War Criminal}}{{Quote|The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."|Henry Kissinger}}'''Henry Alfred Kissinger''' (born in Furth Germany on May 27<sup>th</sup>, 1923) is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as National Security Adviser under [[Richard Nixon]] and Gerald Ford (1969 - 1975) and Secretary Of State under Gerald Ford (1973-1977) among other advisory roles, and is the founder and chairman of Kissinger Associates an international consulting firm founded in 1982. | Get away with war crimes, and be deemed as a hero instead (succeeded)|type of villain = Celebrated War Criminal}} | ||
{{Quote|The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."|Henry Kissinger}} | |||
'''Henry Alfred Kissinger''' (born in Furth Germany on May 27<sup>th</sup>, 1923) is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as National Security Adviser under [[Richard Nixon]] and Gerald Ford (1969 - 1975) and Secretary Of State under Gerald Ford (1973-1977) among other advisory roles, and is the founder and chairman of Kissinger Associates an international consulting firm founded in 1982. | |||
== Villainy == | == Villainy == | ||
Due to his controversial and borderline illegal actions as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, he is considered by many a war criminal. | Due to his controversial and borderline illegal actions as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, he is considered by many a war criminal. | ||
This is for overseeing the mass bombings of Cambodia and Laos during the Nixon administration (especially during the [[Vietnam War]]) resulting in the deaths of between 50,000 - 150,000 Cambodian men, women, and children rather than the intended targets of North Vietnamese troops and National Liberation Front militias. | This is for overseeing the mass bombings of Cambodia and Laos during the Nixon administration (especially during the [[Vietnam War]]) resulting in the deaths of between 50,000 - 150,000 Cambodian men, women, and children rather than the intended targets of North Vietnamese troops and National Liberation Front militias. | ||
These bombings destabilized governments while displaying Kissinger's callous disregard for human life. | These bombings destabilized governments while displaying Kissinger's callous disregard for human life. | ||
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These bombings led to the rise of the [[Khmer Rouge]] and [[Pol Pot]], who carried out a [[Cambodian Genocide|genocide]] against millions of Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians. | These bombings led to the rise of the [[Khmer Rouge]] and [[Pol Pot]], who carried out a [[Cambodian Genocide|genocide]] against millions of Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians. | ||
Another crime of his was his pivotal involvement in pressuring Nixon to overthrow democratically elected president Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973. | Another crime of his was his pivotal involvement in pressuring Nixon to overthrow democratically elected president Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973. | ||
He oversaw the overthrow of the government and its replacement with the regime of [[Augusto Pinochet]], a mass murdering dictator who killed several thousands of his own citizens and interned and tortured thousands more | He oversaw the overthrow of the government and its replacement with the regime of [[Augusto Pinochet]], a mass murdering dictator who killed several thousands of his own citizens and interned and tortured thousands more; this was apart of [[Operation Condor]], a multi-year campaign of [[state terrorism]] in South America that was backed by the CIA and established a number of right-wing military dictatorships in South America. | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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Henry Kissinger en 1976.jpg | Henry Kissinger en 1976.jpg | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
[[Category:List]] | [[Category:List]] | ||
[[Category:Political]] | [[Category:Political]] |