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US Must face the Truth Know who is the Terrorist25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony1- "Its really not a number 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 carewhat the facts are." -President George Bush 1988 Bush was demonstratinghis patriotism by excusing an act of cold-blooded mass-murder by the U.S. naval forces. On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot d have got an Iraniancommercial airliner. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed.The plane was on a routine 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 contrariety (U.S. economic-militarysupremacy)... we wi ll have to dispense with all sentimentality andday-dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unrealobjectives such as human rights, the raising of the support standard anddemocratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to dealin straight power concepts.... The less we are and so hampered by idealisticslogans, 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 dictate the way they live and talk. And thats whats greatabout America right now. Its a good thing, especially when at that places 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 American/British war criminals in the first eight monthsof 19995- "The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."-Ramsey Clark Former U.S. Attorney General under President LyndonJohnson6- "I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar steady fingers out of the business of these Third World nations so fullof depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of theirown. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the risky 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 higher up all dont want crammed down