Memo to Kissinger: Shut Up, Go Away, Drop Dead

It's Nobel Prize time again, and my mind inevitably drifts to the moment when I realized the awards were a sham: That would be 1973 when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Peace Prize.

Kissinger is a war criminal. He is a shyster, a liar, a turncoat, a duplicitous two-faced skunk and a traitor. He is scum, and word that he has been lurking behind the curtain in the unmitigatd disaster called the Iraq war set the hair on my neck on end.

Think I have strong feelings? Check out what Christopher Hitchens has to say in a Salon essay.