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Kuwait.”—Margaret Tutweiller, US State Department spokes-
woman, July 24th 1990, nine days before Iraq's invasion of
Kuwait.

“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivi-
lized tribes. The moral effect should be good...and it would
spread a lively terror...“Winston Churchill commenting on the
British use of poison gas against the Iraqis after World War I.

“If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their god-
damn 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.”—US Brig. General William Looney (Interview
Washington Post, August 30, 1999) (Referring, in reality, to the
brutal deaths of Iraqi men, women and children during
10,000 sorties by American/British forces during the first eight
months of 1999.]

“To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-mili-
tary supremacy)...we will have to dispense with all sentimen-
tality 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 con-
cepts... The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the
better.”—George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning US
State Department 1948.

“The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign
policy."—Ramsey Clark, Former US Attorney General under
President Lyndon Johnson.

“I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dol-
lar soaked fingers out of the business of these [Third World]

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nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive
at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolu-
tion 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.”—General David Sharp,
Former United States Marine Commandant 1966.

“We have no honourable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal
expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and main-
tain 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.”—Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Time to Break the
Silence” speech given at Riverside Church New York City
April 4, 1967.

“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.”—Woodrow Wilson, US President during
World War I.

“I came to America because of the great, great freedom which
I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting
America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the
balance of my lifetime.”—Albert Einstein, 1947

“The men who possess real power in this country have no
intention of ending the Cold War.”—Albert Einstein

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