Sen. John McCain didn’t mince words with the protesters who challenged Henry Kissinger at a Senate hearing.
“Get out of here, you low-life scum,” the Arizona Republican said Thursday to members of Code Pink, the anti-war group.
Code Pink members chanted “Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes” as the former secretary of State walked into the Armed Services Committee hearing chaired by McCain, R-Ariz. The hearing featured testimony from Kissinger, George Shultz and Madeleine Albright, all former secretaries of State, on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy.
Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger (H.Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)
McCain had U.S. Capitol Police remove the protesters, who said they were acting in the name of the people of Chile, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia and Laos. Shultz, secretary of State in the Reagan administration, can be seen on the video standing up at one point to get the protesters to leave.
“I’ve been a member of this committee for many years and I have never seen anything as disgraceful and as outrageous and as despicable as the last demonstration that just took place,” McCain said, telling the protesters that “you’re going to have to shut up or else I’m going to have you arrested.”
McCain received applause for his comments and apologized “profusely” to Kissinger, whom he called “a man who served his country with the greatest distinction.”
Kissinger, secretary of State under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize to Kissinger is considered one of the Nobel committee’s most controversial because he was accused of war crimes for his role supporting America’s secret bombing of Cambodia. Le Duc Tho, who was jointly awarded the peace prize with Kissinger, declined to accept the award because he believed peace had not been achieved in Vietnam.
he says it at 2:29
fukking senile old fart
“Get out of here, you low-life scum,” the Arizona Republican said Thursday to members of Code Pink, the anti-war group.
Code Pink members chanted “Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes” as the former secretary of State walked into the Armed Services Committee hearing chaired by McCain, R-Ariz. The hearing featured testimony from Kissinger, George Shultz and Madeleine Albright, all former secretaries of State, on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy.
Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger (H.Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)
McCain had U.S. Capitol Police remove the protesters, who said they were acting in the name of the people of Chile, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia and Laos. Shultz, secretary of State in the Reagan administration, can be seen on the video standing up at one point to get the protesters to leave.
“I’ve been a member of this committee for many years and I have never seen anything as disgraceful and as outrageous and as despicable as the last demonstration that just took place,” McCain said, telling the protesters that “you’re going to have to shut up or else I’m going to have you arrested.”
McCain received applause for his comments and apologized “profusely” to Kissinger, whom he called “a man who served his country with the greatest distinction.”
Kissinger, secretary of State under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize to Kissinger is considered one of the Nobel committee’s most controversial because he was accused of war crimes for his role supporting America’s secret bombing of Cambodia. Le Duc Tho, who was jointly awarded the peace prize with Kissinger, declined to accept the award because he believed peace had not been achieved in Vietnam.
he says it at 2:29
fukking senile old fart
