{"id":2971,"date":"2006-09-10T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/10\/henry-kissinger-on-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2006-09-10T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T22:07:24","slug":"henry-kissinger-on-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/10\/henry-kissinger-on-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Kissinger on Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few conservative magazines worth reading, <em>The New American<\/em>, reports that Henry Kissinger told an Italian\u00c2\u00a0reporter in 1972 that the war in Vietnam had &#8220;been a useless war.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0I think if I was one of the 58,000 soldiers killed or one of the 304,000 soldiers wounded or one of the 75,000 soldiers disabled (23,000 totally disabled) in that &#8220;useless war&#8221; that I would be quite upset at Kissinger and the government that was responsible for that crime.<\/p>\n<p>When will we hear Bush or Rumsfeld admit that the war in Iraq is likewise a &#8220;useless war&#8221;? Probably not until after a few thousand more American soldiers die for a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few conservative magazines worth reading, The New American, reports that Henry Kissinger told an Italian\u00c2\u00a0reporter in 1972 that the war in Vietnam had &#8220;been a useless war.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0I think if I was one of the 58,000 soldiers killed or one of the 304,000 soldiers wounded or one of the 75,000 soldiers disabled (23,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}