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US Must face the Truth Know who is the Terrorist25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony1- "Its re all toldy non a build Im terribly interested in." -General ColinPowell When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughteredby Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign (200,000 people)2- "I will never apologize for the United States of America - I dont frettingwhat the facts are." -President George Bush 1988 Bush was demonstratinghis 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 heap an Iraniancommercial airliner. alone 290 noncombatant people in the aircraft were killed.The plane was on a modus operandi flight in a commercial corridor in Iranianairspace. The targeting of it by the U.S. Navy was blatantly illegal. Thatit was grossly immoral is also obvious. Except to a patriot.3- "To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-militarysupremac y)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality andday-dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unrealobjectives such(prenominal) as human rights, the raising of the living standard anddemocratization. The day is not far off when we are breathing out to have to dealin straight power concepts.... The less we are then hampered by high-soundingslogans, the better." -George Kennan Director of Policy Planning U.S.State Department 19484- "If they turn on the radars were going to blow up their goddamn SAMs(surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own theirairspace... We tell the way they live and talk. And thats whats greatabout America right now. Its a good thing, especially when on that points a lotof oil out there we need." -U.S. Brig. General William Looney (InterviewWashington Post, August 30, 1999) Referring, in reality, to the brutalmass-murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during10,000 sorties by Amer ican/British war criminals in the prototypal eight monthsof 19995- "The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. international policy."-Ramsey Clark Former U.S. Attorney General under President LyndonJohnson6- "I believe that if we had and would harbour our dirty, bloody, dollarsoaked fingers out of the business of these Third World nations so fullof depressed, utilize people, they will arrive at a solution of theirown. And if unfortunately their conversion must be of the violent typebecause the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peacefulmethod, at least what they get will be their own, and not the Americanstyle, which they dont want and above all dont want crammed down