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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)
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{{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.
 
This was apart of [[Operation Condor]], a multi-year campaign of state terror in South America that was backed by the CIA and established a number of right-wing military dictatorships in South America.


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Henry Kissinger en 1976.jpg
Henry Kissinger en 1976.jpg
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