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Henry Kissenger "Terminated" an interview on a CBC national radio program called "The Current" when confronted with the possibility of his being brought before the International War Crimes Court. 

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The Current for Show April 21, 2003

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It's Monday, April 21st.

Henry Kissinger is saying the war in Iraq could permanently alter the transatlantic balance of power.

In a recent op-ed, the former US Secretary of State declared the United States might reevaluate its ties with France, Germany and Russia.

Currently.... Europe has been warned. Next time any of you former allies want to join the US for some good old-fashioned carpet bombing ... or maybe a little propping up of a fascist dictator ...don't even THINK about crawling back to Henry Kissinger.

This is The Current.

Henry Kissinger

He is the most famous and the most controversial diplomat to ever come out of Washington.

Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace prize for ending the Vietnam war. He's occupied a post under every American president since Richard Nixon. And so, when Henry Kissinger -- now the head of a private consulting firm -- wrote an article in the Washington Post last week, arguing that the war in Iraq could create long-term damage to the European alliances he helped create, we wanted to know more.

We also wanted to ask about the issues that won't go away -- how Kissinger's role in creating and executing US foreign policy from the Vietnam War, to Cambodia, to the coup that toppled Allende in Chile -- now has writers and activists arguing he should face a war crimes trial. He joined us from New York.

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