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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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