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| Quotes on American Foreign
Policy "It's really not a number I'm terribly
interested in." "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.] "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." "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." "The greatest crime since World War II
has been U.S. foreign policy." "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." "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." "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." CIABASE; The Crisis of Democracy Deadly
Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA "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." "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." Source: The Reliable Source Rep. John Cooksey
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