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Iceland.

They're still finding unexploded bombs
in some of the lands where Kissinger played his pranks.
Elsewhere there are graves & unmarked digs;
oh plenty he has wreaked upon the world.

And all the pomp & honors that can spew
will follow his mild departure unironically
since if we had to admit our nation's wrongs
we'd die of shame upon the very spot.

But a scant few lies suffice, it seems, to justify
any harm we could ever devise to hurl,
as Kissinger was not the first to show.

With a bitter cloud of virtual insults goes
one villain vastly rewarded in his day,
nor will this noise deter those living still.

Night-Fighter.

"The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people." --Spencer Ackerman in Rolling Stone

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