The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for August 25, 2009

Steal a loaf of bread, go to prison. Steal a country, go to Stockholm…

anybody know the details of this?

Kissinger is an unindicted war criminal. He helped Nixon’s war in Southeast Asia spread and go on for years and years. He doesn’t deserve a Nobel Peace Prize any more than A. Hitler.

The only reason he was awarded the peace prize was his heading the U.S delegation to the Paris peace talks re the Vietnam war. Le Duc Tho, the Viet representative, was a co-recipient with Kissinger, but declined to accept. There were a number of groups and individuals who protested Kissinger receiving this Nobel and still want him tried for war crimes - not just for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, but also the deaths he is held responsible for in South America and Timor.

Edit Excellent summation, pbarnrob.

It is sickening that Kissinger is widely regarded as a great man in some circles, just as it was sickening that Nixon was forgiven by the media and became something of a foreign policy expert for the media in his later years. Both of them should have been locked up with the key thrown away.