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]
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?
