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]

Musharraf Scampers

Another era of army dictatorship has come to an end in Pakistan; and for once, the dictator has stepped down himself. Musharraf’s resignation, amid the preparations of his impeachment by the ruling coalition, has been getting mixed reactions, no doubt. I, for one, would ike to see him impeached, tried, brought to justice, and hanged. Yes! Hanged. And that wouldn’t even be close to what I think he deserves.

I remember back in 99, when he took over, it was during my first semester in college. I heard the news from the Pakistani’s on campus when I went out for dinner that day. And yes, I was happy. In fact, I was excited. Very excited that Pakistan had gotten rid of a corrupt and looting government of Nawaz Sharif, even if that meant a dictatorship; a dictatorship that promised to hold elections in a very short time and let go of power.

But I guess I am no different from the rest of Pakistanis, am I? I believed what we were told. I ignored the past, and was swayed by the false promises; exactly like our nation has been doing for the past 61 years. Ignorant and stupid as we are. And as we watched, Musharraf followed in the footsteps of the former military dictators, the absolute power getting to his head, and he just grabbed on to it.

Amid mounting tension with India, with our forces amassed on the border, despite Musharraf’s trip to Agra earlier to make peace, he managed to sit on the shoulders of his core commanders, doing their bidding, for he had no choice. Musharraf was not a powerful dictator. He had not come into power on his own. If we look back, I am sure you’ll remember how he grabbed power. It wasn’t actually him who deposed Nawaz Sharif, it were the army elements loyal to him. Musharraf had simply gotten off his flight and told that, hey, you are the new president. And those who made him the president, controlled him as well. But only until September 11, 2001.

His fate changed that day. No matter how bad that day was for America, it was the luckiest day of Musharraf’s life. In an instant, he became the best friend of the most powerful man in the world. A buffoon, yes, but most powerful still. Bush, who when asked during his 2000 campaign if he knew who the president of Pakistan was, had said that he didn’t know, “Some military general?” I guess that’s what his answer had been. And now Musharraf found himself showered with favors.

He was accepted by the international community at last. Pakistan was re-accepted into the BCommonwealth, having had her membership revoked after Musharraf’s coup in 1999. The sanctions placed on Pakistan for the 1998 nuclear tests and the 1999 military take over were removed. And Pakistan was given the status of the most important non-NATO ally by the US.  It made him strong at home, because people thought he was responsible for everything good happening to the country, and it made him strong internationally. And above all, he didn’t need his core commanders’ support anymore; he had America backing him now. And Musharraf was a powerful Dictator at last.

But then he lost it. Musharraf’s idea of “Moderate Enlightenment” was the stupidest thing he could’ve done. The idea was to please the west. I don’t claim to be a man of faith, but a muslim, I am. And it is my strong belief that a muslim nation cannot prosper if it lets go off it’s faith. Musharraf made every attempt to eradicate Islam from the society; all to please the Americans. The outcome of his policies on religion are a totally different debate, but that is where he went wrong.

That is what made him most enemies, killing Pakistanis inside Pakistan, kidnapping muslims inside Pakistan and handing them over to the US, to be sent to Guantanamo, carrying out operations against people of his own country and houses of worship, the mosques…. all to please his masters, the leaders of the free world.

Musharraf was an asshole. IS an asshole. He writes very boldly about how Nawaz Sharif was loosing it and getting rid of all army chiefs who disagreed with him. And it was because of that that Musharraf had to come into power. And what did he do himself? Dismissed the Supreme Court judges because they were going to rule against his being elected president??

I’ll just end this rambling by saying that I am not one of those who are happy that Musharraf resigned, nothing better could be expected from that coward, I am just sad.. to see what direction Pakistan is moving into.

Shooting in the name of.. WHAT??

This is just plain weird. I heard the story on news earlier today and just read the details on USA Today.

A man in Knoxville goes and shoots up people in a church.

and Why?

Because he hated liberals.

In details, this dude didn’t have a job, lost his food stamps, and hated gays and those who tolerated them… so he decided to load up a gun and go on a shooting rampage.

Where on earth do such things happen? Only in America, the land of the free.

Let me come to my point now, a man ties up explosives to his body, goes into a crowded street, and blows himself up, killing everyone around him. Innocent people. We term him a terrorist. A menace to the global society. And rightly so.

But how come the war against terror is not against Americans and their school and college kids who randomly pick up a gun and do exactly the same, except that they don’t kill themselves. And rightly so.

See in a country like Pakistan, where if someone plants a bomb that kills people and, if by chance the authorities manage to catch that person, his punishment would surely be death. So these brain washed zombies take their own lives, supposedly making a political statement and committing mass murder at the same time.

In the US, well I dont have the exact figures, but from what I remember from 8 years ago, when Bush was running for president and appeared on the Letterman show, David Letterman said that almost half of the United States still have death penalty. And even then, it is not practiced easily. There are too many loopholes, best of them, claim of mental disorder, which I am sure this person can easily use if his state tries to put him to death. Not to mention the constant anti-death penalty activist who make a big hoo haa over any such thing.

As Bush put it back in 2001.. “They hate us for our FREEDOM!”

That’s right Mr. Bush, which is why they decided to turn into suicide bombers to practice the same kind of freedom your people have.

p.s.

People in Iran hate gays too by the way… so if you had only two choices, who would YOU kill?