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

����������������� 25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony

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�������� 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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