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Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

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Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100.

Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, even over a man such as McVeigh � necessary questions about the legitimacy of killing even an unrepentant soldier of white supremacy � his death provided a measure of closure to the mother of one of his victims. �It�s a period at the end of a sentence,� said Kathleen Treanor, whose 4-year old McVeigh killed.

McVeigh, who in his own psychotic way thought he was saving America, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger, the most revered American grand strategist of the second half of the 20th century.

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. That includes �crimes of commission,� he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia�s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan�s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.