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�� U.S. Must Face the Truth ‑ 25 Quotes

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�� "Bob Jones" <[email protected]>

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�� U.S. Must Face the Truth: Know Who is The Terrorist

�� 25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony

�� by "TruthTeller"

�� 1."It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."

�� ‑General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who

�� were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign

�� (200,000 people!)]

�� 2."I will never apologize for the United States of America ‑ I don't care what

�� the facts are."

�� ‑President George Bush 1988 [Bush was demonstrating his patriotism by

�� excusing an act of cold‑blooded mass‑murder by the U.S. Navy. On July 3,

�� 1988 the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian commercial

�� airliner. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed. The plane was on a

�� routine flight in a commercial corridor in Iranian airspace. The targeting of it

�� by the U.S. Navy was blatantly illegal. That it was grossly immoral is also

�� obvious. Except to a patriot.]

�� 3."To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic‑military

�� supremacy)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and

�� day‑dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unreal

�� objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and

�� democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in

�� straight power concepts.... The less we are then hampered by idealistic

�� slogans, the better."

�� ‑George Kennan [Director of Policy Planning U.S. State Department 1948]

�� 4."If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs

�� (surface‑to‑air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their

�� airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great

�� about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of

�� oil out there we need."

�� ‑U.S. Brig. General William Looney (Interview Washington Post, August 30,

�� 1999) [Referring, in reality, to the brutal mass‑murder of hundreds of civilian

�� Iraqi men, women and children during 10,000 sorties by American/British

�� war criminals in the first eight months of 1999]

�� 5."The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."

�� ‑Ramsey Clark [Former U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon

�� Johnson]

�� 6."I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked

�� fingers out of the business of these [Third World] nations so full of

�� depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And

�� if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the

�� 'haves' refuse to share with the 'have‑nots' by any peaceful method, at least

�� what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they

�� don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by

�� Americans."

�� ‑General David Sharp [Former United States Marine Commandant 1966]

�� 7."We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is

�� to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our

�� investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against

�� guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken

�� is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that

�� come from the immense profits of overseas investment."

�� ‑Martin Luther King, Jr. ["A Time to Break the Silence" speech given at

�� Riverside Church New York City April 4, 1967]

�� 8."Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world ‑

�� particularly the Third World ‑ since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the

�� elite‑owned media."

�� ‑Ralph McGehee [Former CIA analyst & Author] CIABASE; The Crisis of

�� Democracy Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA

�� 9."The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to

�� governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political

�� killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world."

�� ‑Amnesty International ["United States of America ‑ Rights for All" October

�� 1998]

�� 10."We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely

�� controlled and dominated Governments in the world ‑ no longer a

�� Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and

�� vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small

�� groups of dominant men."

�� ‑Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]

�� 11."We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source,

�� of at least a proportion of the oil which we require."

�� ‑ British Royal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards

�� Iraq, 1913

�� 12."What we want to have in existence, what we ought to have been creating

�� in this time is some administration with Arab institutions which we can

�� safely leave while pulling the strings ourselves; something that won't cost

�� very much, which the Labour government can swallow consistent with its'

�� principles, but under which our economic and political interests will be

�� secure. [.....] If the French remain in Syria we shall have to avoid giving

�� them the excuse of setting up a protectorate. If they go, or if we appear to

�� be reactionary in Mesopotamia, there is always the risk that [King] Faisal

�� will encourage the Americans to take over both, and it should be borne in

�� mind that the Standard Oil company is very anxious to take over Iraq."

�� ‑ Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Head of the British government's 'India Office Political

�� Department.' 1919

�� 13."If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with

�� Anglo‑American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the

�� world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have

�� a better propaganda effect."

�� ‑ Private memo from The Council of Foreign Relations to the U.S. State

�� Department, 1941

�� 14."Our strategic and security interests throughout the world will be best

�� safeguarded by the establishment in suitable spots of 'Police Stations', fully

�� equipped to deal with emergencies within a large radius. Kuwait is one

�� such spot from which Iraq, South Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf

�� could be controlled. It will be worthwhile to go to considerable trouble and

�� expense to establish and man a 'Police Station' there."

�� ‑ British Foreign Office, policy memo, 1947

�� 15."We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its' population.

�� In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our

�� real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which

�� will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive

�� ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world

�� benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal

�� objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and

�� democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in

�� straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic

�� slogans, the better."

�� ‑ George Kennan, former Head of the U.S. State Department Policy

�� Planning Staff, Document PPS23, 24th February 1948

�� 16."I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard

�� existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of

�� freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime."

�� ‑Albert Einstein, 1947

�� 17."The target suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad."

�� ‑ CIA officer testifying to U.S. Senate hearing, after bloody CIA aided Ba'th

�� Party coup overthrew Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Kassem, 1963

�� 18."Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to create a

�� counterproductive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly to

�� increase the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union.

�� Destruction of locks and dams, however ‑ if handled right ‑ might offer

�� promise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drown

�� people. By shallow‑flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread

�� starvation (more than a million) unless food is provided ‑ which we could

�� offer to do 'at the conference table'."

�� ‑ John McNaughton, U.S. State Department Vietnam policy, as quoted in

�� 'The Mentality of the Backroom Boys.' Article by Noam Chomsky, 1973

�� 19."The U.S. must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its

�� determination to continue to be a world power."

�� ‑ Henry Kissinger, post‑Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post,

�� April 1975

�� 20."It would not have been possible for a political party to be more committed

�� to a national home for the Jews in Palestine than was Labour."

�� ‑ Harold Wilson, former British Labour Party Prime Minister, 1981

�� 21."One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about

�� everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't

�� upset my breakfast at all."

�� ‑ Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President, basking in the triumph that was the

�� U.S. invasion of Grenada, 1983

�� 22.Q. "Mr. President, have you approved of covert activity to destablise the

�� present government of Nicaragua?"

�� A. "Well, no, we're supporting them, the ‑ oh, wait a minute, wait a minute,

�� I'm sorry, I was thinking of El Salvador, because of the previous, when you

�� said Nicaragua. Here again, this is something upon which the national

�� security interests, I just ‑ I will not comment."

�� ‑ Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President, Washington press conference,

�� February 13th, 1983, as quoted by John Pilger in 'Heroes'

�� 23."After seeing 'RAMBO' last night, I know what to do the next time this

�� happens."

�� ‑ Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President, as reported by Daily Express, July

�� 2nd, 1985

�� 24."Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on the battlefield

�� could be significant with potential radiological and toxicological effects. [...]

�� Under combat conditions, the most exposed individuals are probably

�� ground troops that re‑enter a battlefield following the exchange of

�� armour‑piercing munitions. [...] We are simply highlighting the potential for

�� levels of DU exposure to military personnel during combat that would be

�� unacceptable during peacetime operations. [...DU is..]... a low level alpha

�� radiation emitter which is linked to cancer when exposures are internal,

�� [and] chemical toxicity causing kidney damage. [...] Short term effects of

�� high doses can result in death, while long term effects of low doses have

�� been linked to cancer. [...] Our conclusion regarding the health and

�� environmental acceptability of DU penetrators assume both controlled use

�� and the presence of excellent health physics management practices.

�� Combat conditions will lead to the uncontrolled release of DU. [...] The

�� conditions of the battlefield, and the long term health risks to natives and

�� combat veterans may become issues in the acceptability of the continued

�� use of DU kinetic penetrators for military applications."

�� ‑ Excerpts from the July 1990 Science and Applications International

�� Corporation report: ' Kinetic Energy Penetrator Environment and Health

�� Considerations', as included in Appenix D ‑ U.S. Army Armaments, Munitions

�� and Chemical Command report: 'Kinetic Energy Penetrator Long Term

�� Strategy Study, July 1990' These documents state clearly and equivocally

�� that the U.S. army was well aware of the radioactive and toxic dangers of

�� Depleted Uranium ammunition long before the first shots of the war were

�� fired.

�� 25."We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special

�� defense or security commitments to Kuwait."

�� ‑ Margaret Tutweiller, U.S. State Department spokeswoman, 24th July 1990,

�� nine days before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait References

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