Well, if you insist on denying these fact...wait a minute. You didn't deny them, did you? Intriguing. But in case folks have any doubt:

On Cambodia: I don't think anyone serious disagrees anymore that the bombing did indeed take place and was indeed quite illegal, but here's a tidbit nonetheless: an interview with former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird in which he mentions, among other things, his advice to Kissinger and Nixon that the bombings could not be kept secret.

On the 1968 peace talks: I'll let Hitchens himself make his case here: See Part I of his Harper's article (which later became the book, which then became the movie), beginning on Page 5, where he lays out the evidence that Kissinger was a key player in Nixon's sabotage of the peace negotiations.

On East Timor: The National Security Archives has the actual State Department transcript, recently declassified, of the meeting which took place between Ford, Kissinger, and Suharto directly prior to Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, which removes any need for anyone to take my or Hitchens word for the fact that Ford and Kissinger were indeed informed of the attack prior to it occurring, and gave a clear green light to Suharto. The actual transcript PDF is here (the relevant bits begin on page 8) and a summary article can be found here.

There isn't, of course, going to be any such war-crimes trial of Henry Kissinger - forget that, just to begin with. The man responsible for Vietnam and Cambodia was President Richard Nixon. The man responsible for East Timor is President Gerald Ford.

Not so fast with the simple declaration that Kissinger won't see trial, sir. You may well be right that he will never see a war crimes trial. But it is growing increasingly likely that he will stand trial at some point, even if only to defend himself against civil lawsuits. In fact, he's been summoned by a Spanish judge to discuss his knowledge of the Latin American international death squad regime known as "Operation Condor", been presented with a summons to testify before a French judge regarding the disappearance of French Citizens in Chile and Argentina, and is currently being sued by the family of murdered Chilean General Rene Schneider. Certainly, the list of countries where Kissinger can travel without fear of legal inquiries grows shorter every year (a fact which Hitchens gleefully points out at any opportunity).

Nixon is gone, but why isn't Hitchens calling for the trial of Gerald Ford as a war criminal? The answer is that Mr. Ford is not, so to speak, a photogenic war criminal, someone the sight of whom behind bars or swinging on a noose would give Jacobinical satisfaction. What is contemplated by the Hitchens offensive is, quite simply, denigration.