27 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony
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- Q. We have heard that a half million children have died (because of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
A. I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
-Madeleine Albright, [US Secretary of State, on the death of Iraq children because of US sanctions against Iraq, talking to Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes.” May 12, 1996]
3- “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.]
4- “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]
American Terrorism
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui - just 1 example of American Terrorism
Hot chips helped calm Bin Laden driver – Reuters
Guantanamo Bay (Reuters Published: July 26, 2008, 23:25) : Hot McDonald’s french fries and a call home encouraged Salim Hamdan to cooperate under interrogation, but Osama Bin Laden’s driver did not like cold fries and isolation upset him, witnesses said at his war crimes trial on Friday….
He is facing charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism in the first US war crimes trial since the Second World War. Prosecutors are relying largely on Hamdan’sQaida. statements during interrogations in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay during more than six years of captivity in an attempt to show he was an active, important supporter of Bin Laden and Al
…Hamdan was one of several drivers for Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden. Prosecutors say he was captured in Afghanistan at the wheel of a car with two surface-to-air missiles.
OK!!!
So the US is conducting… as they put it…US war crimes trials, against those they captured in Afghanistan.
war effing crimes?!??!!
and so now these “enemy combatants” are being put on trial for “War effing crimes”… and what about the close to a million Iraqis killed by leaders of the free world? Well OK.. when there’s war, people die. That makes sense. 1 million Iraqis against 4000 Americans.
Kinda puts the value of non-American lives in today’s times into focus. About 250 Iraqis for 1 American. and we aren’t even talking about Afghanistan yet, where innocent civilians are being killed every day in air strikes and other wise.
Actually, whats interesting about Afghanistan is, every other day, American and coalition troops conduct helicopter strikes in afghan weddings. Yes, that’s true. Afghan weddings are being targeted now. And one might say, that cant possibly be possible. But the truth of the matter is, Americans, the ignorant idiots that they are, often mistake the gunfire that is customary to afghan celebrations, a part of their culture actually, for an attack, and off they go, killing children, women, and innocent men. All for just attending a wedding.
How’s THAT for war crimes?
CNN: Child bride gets divorced after rape, beatings
This is the MOST viewed story on the CNN website today.
Nujood Ali is 10 years old, but she already has been married and divorced. It was an arranged marriage in which she said a husband three times her age routinely beat and raped her.
“When I got married, I was afraid. I didn’t want to leave home. I wanted to stay with my brothers and sisters and my mom and dad,” she said, speaking to CNN with the permission of her parents.
“I didn’t want to sleep with him, but he forced me to. He hit me, insulted me.”
As she plays marbles with her brothers and sister, Nujood is a portrait of innocence, with a shy smile and a playful nature….”
The news story is followed by a long discussion of readers on Islam and the west.. totally getting off topic.. the westerners going on about how this is a religious problem and the muslims (supported by a few correct minded westerners) trying to prove otherwise, branding it a cultural problem.
But are we really dealing with a problem here? The world is full of bad people. If one person does something, and I am not talking about a group of people, like American interogators at Abu Gharaib or Guantanamo, I am talking about ONE person, can it be generalized to the entire region, nation, or religion???
Like every other faith, Islam has its own guide lines. You have a problem with them, take a hike! Muslims are not going to stop practicing their religion just because some illiterate, ignorant fool who dropped out of high school in his freshman year, and who’s sitting somewhere in small town USA, listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching FAUX (fox) news decides that it is wrong for muslims to marry their children young.
BIG DEAL! So Islam tells muslims to marry their girls when they start menstruating! Could there be ANYTHING better than that? If only every society, including the modern day so called muslim societies, were practicing this today, we would have a lot less messed up teenagers, a lot less headache for parents, a morally healthy and ethical society and much less bastards in this world.
They object that men marry more than once. Islam allows them to. Now lets compare. And i am not comparing islam with christianity or judaism or hinduism or any other religion. My comparison is between the fundamental Islam and the modern western society… the society of the so called leaders of the free world. Coming to the point, In America, according to the federal government statistics posted HERE, an average male sleeps with 7 women in his life time. 29% men sleep with 15 or more partners. 9% of women say the same. Not the mention that 16% of Americans lost their virginity before the age of 15, and another 16% waited till they were 21.
Do I even need to go into the details of moral and ethical implications of these figures? And let me remind again. Muslim men are allowed UPTO 4 wives at a time. There are more than 1 billion muslims in this world. How many of them do you think marry 4 women at the same time? Would it be better to marry early than to get drunk and loose your virginity to a stranger at the age of 16? And would it be better to marry more than one woman legally, than to marry one and cheat on her?
According to another article on the MSNBC website, HERE, 22% of married men who participated in a survey said they had had extra marital affairs, for “thrills or true love.” The articles goes on to say that it is believed that the true number is supposed to be twice more than what the survey calculated, that is, 44%. That is almost half of the married population of the leaders of the free world.
So I ask again… where exactly is the problem???
