If they do it, it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom.
–
\nAnthony Quainton, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1984 – to a group of
\nconcerned U.S. citizens when asked to explain the difference between
\nU.S. government actions in Nicaragua and the violence it condemns as
\nterrorism elsewhere in the world. <\/p>\n
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It is in the nature
\nof imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the
\nlast to know–or care–about circumstances in the colonies.
– Bertrand Russell<\/p>\n
=<\/p>\n
The
\npresident has adopted a policy of ‘anticipatory self-defense’ that is
\nalarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl
\nHarbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it
\nwould, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it
\nis we Americans who live in infamy.
– Arthur Schlesinger<\/p>\n
=<\/p>\n
I
\nam tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those
\nwho have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
\nwounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. Some
\nof these young men think that war is all glory but let me say war is
\nall hell.
– William Tecumseh Sherman<\/p>\n
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Why is this
\nman in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him.
\nWhy is he there? And I tell you this morning that he’s in the White
\nHouse because God put him there for a time such as this.
– Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003<\/p>\n
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God
\ngave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and
\nunshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany
– Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler<\/p>\n
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A
\ntyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
\nSubjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
\nthey consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less
\neasily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
– Aristotle<\/p>\n
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If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier – just so long as I’m the dictator.
– George W. Bush, 18 December 2000<\/p>\n
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International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn’t bring that up to me.
– George W. Bush, 12 December 2003<\/p>\n
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…
\nthe United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but
\nopposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one
\nof U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of
\nends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency
\nspecialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote
\nlocations with little notice in the national press. That allows the
\npublic to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed
\nsecurity and economic interests are still protected in secret.
– Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author<\/p>\n
=<\/p>\n
Our
\nmen . . . have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners
\nand captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of 10
\nup…. Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to “make them
\ntalk,” and have taken prisoners people who held up their hands and
\npeacefully surrendered, and an hour later. . . stood them on a bridge
\nand shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float
\ndown, as examples to those who found their bullet-loaded corpses.
–
\nPhiladelphia Ledger newspaper in 1901, from its Manila [Philippines]
\ncorrespondent during the US war with Spain for the control of the
\nPhilippines<\/p>\n
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The only place you and I disagree . . . is
\nwith regard to the bombing. You’re so goddamned concerned about the
\ncivilians, and I (in contrast) don’t give a damn. I don’t care. .
\n. . I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just
\nwant you to think big.
– Richard Nixon to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the Watergate tapes<\/p>\n
=<\/p>\n
This
\nbusiness of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s
\nhomes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate
\ninto veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark
\nand bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically
\nderanged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
– Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n
=<\/p>\n
The
\nessence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the
\npersistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life … A
\nruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its
\nsuccessors… Who wields power is not important, provided that the
\nhierarchical structure remains always the same.
– George Orwell, 1984<\/p>\n
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\nhave pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them;
\ndestroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows
\nand orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens
\nof disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining ten millions by
\nBenevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket; we
\nhave acquired property in the three hundred concubines and other slaves
\nof our business partner Sultan of Sulu, and hoisted our protecting flag
\nover that swag. And so, by the Providences of God \u2013 and the phrase is
\nthe government’s, not mine \u2013 we are a World Power
– Mark Twain http:\/\/www.wilsonsalmanac.com\/mark_twain_war_prayer.html<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJap’s a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty… This coast
\nis too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a
\npermit from my office.
– General John L. DeWitt, head, Western Defense Command; before the US House Naval Affairs Subcommittee<\/p>\n
\nvested interests – if we explain the situation by their influence – can
\nonly get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion,
\nby playing either upon the public’s indifference, confusions,
\nprejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power
\nof the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by
\nbringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the
\nabsurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing
\nthat it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened
\nby dangers which are nonexistent.
– Sir Norman Angell 1872 – 1967<\/p>\n
\ncommitted in this world, produces not fruit immediately, but, like the
\nearth, in due season, and advancing by little and little, it eradicates
\nthe man who committed it. …justice, being destroyed, will destroy;
\nbeing preserved, will preserve; it must never therefore be violated.
– Manu 1200 bc<\/p>\n