Article: Henry Kissinger is a poor choice to investigate Sept. 11.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Henry Kissinger should be tried for crimes against humanity, not put in charge of a commission to investigate the Sept. 11 tragedy.

During his years working for the disgraceful Nixon regime and the unelected Ford administration, Kissinger prosecuted private and illegal wars that cost hundreds of thousands of Cambodian, Vietnamese, Timorese and Chilean lives. He is not independent of the failures of the U.S. military intelligence complex. Rather, he is a party to them.

The Bush administration fought for more than a year to prevent any genuine investigation into the circumstances of Sept. 11, and now _ on the advice of Dick Cheney _ we get Kissinger. The ...

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