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4th September 2002, 15:32
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
www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/classicquotes.htm
free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/
www.geocities.com/americanterrorism/
www.geocities.com/americanstateterrorism/
americanterrorism.tripod.com/
August 22, 2002 Bulatlat.com
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
www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/classicquotes.htm
free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/
www.geocities.com/americanterrorism/
www.geocities.com/americanstateterrorism/
americanterrorism.tripod.com/
August 22, 2002 Bulatlat.com