Oh, Right. Nixon & That Bastard Ford

Forty yrs. ago today, our long national nightmare began when cretinous stumblebum President-by-I-dunno-what Ford let that shitheel Nixon off the hook for Constitutional subversion & other high crimes.

Watergate’s most lasting sin:
Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and the pardon that made us all cynics

I can't narrow the factors that made me a complete cynic (if it was anything specific) or exactly when I crossed that bridge & burned it behind me. (Turned 21 that Sep't.; the realization that from there it's a brief uphill struggle until the inevitable slide downhill begins should make everyone a cynic.) What didn't make me cynical would be a better question. And what wouldn't make one a bitter cynic is the best question of all.

Ronald Reagan, left, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford, far right, pose with George Bush
in the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in 1990. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

Speaking of criminal assholes connected w/ the Nix, Dr. Kissinger is trying to wash something off his hands by pointing & yelling: "I blame Obama!"

The Bureau for Investigative Journalism has been the leader in documenting the effects of America’s drone wars. Its estimate of the number of casualties in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia since 2002 is at least 571 and at most 1225 civilian deaths.

In the four-year secret bombing campaign of Cambodia which Kissinger instigated, “the U.S. dropped 540,000 tons of bombs, killing anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 civilians.”

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Kissinger doesn’t have to worry about his legacy because with very few exceptions, Americans are all Kissingers now.