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Nya citat 2005-07-25
We should expect conflicts in which adversaries, because of cultural affinities different from our own, will resort to forms and levels of violence shocking to our sensibilities.
Department of Defense, 1999
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force.
William Blum
We instituted civil affairs [in 1982] which provides development for 70 percent of the population, while we kill 30 percent. Before, the strategy was to kill 100 percent.
Guatemalan Defense Minister Hector Gramajo Morales, on "a more humanitarian" means used to deal with perceived dissenters
When history is written, the Contras will be folk heroes.
Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State under President Reagan
It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.
Colin Powell answering a question about the number of Iraqis killed in the Gulf war, 1991
Asked whether he wants to apologize for the suffering he caused, he looks genuinely confused, has the interpreter repeat the question, and answers 'No'...'I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.'
Journalist Nate Thayer interviewing a dying Pol Pot, I997
It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don't forget, that while "wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages" is a war crime of long standing, the bombing of cities from airplanes goes not only unpunished but virtually unaccused. Air bombardment is state terrorism, the terrorism of the. rich. It has burned up and blasted apart more innoocents in the past six decades than have all the antistate terrorists who ever lived.
C. Douglas Lummis, political scientist, 1994
NATO is not under investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. There is no formal inquiry into the actions of NATO tring the conflict in Kosovo.
The Hague Tribunal, four days after the publication of an interview with the chief prosecutor Del Ponte, where she state that "If I am not willing to do that [press charges against NATO personnel], I am not in the right place."
- Does NATO recognize Judge Arbour's jurisdiction over their activities?
- I think we have to distinguish between the theoretical and the practical. I believe that when Justice Arbour starts her investigation [of the Serbs], she will because we will allow her to ... NATO countries are those that have provided the finance to set up the Tribunal, we are amongst the majority financiers.
Jamie Shea on the role of the Hague Tribunals chief prosecutor Louise Arbour,
at a NATO Press Briefing, May 16, 1999
Casualty Estimate 50-100 Government/Party employees. Unintended Civ Casualty Est: 250—Apts in expected blast radius.
NATO planners, before the bombing of a Belgrade office building
If you wake up in the morning and you have no power to your house and no gas to your stove and the bridge you take to work is down and will be lying in the Danube for the next 20 years, I think you begin to ask, "Hey, Slobo, what's this all about? How much more of this do we have to withstand?"
Lt. Gen. Michael Short, commander of NATO's air war against Serbia
The two operating reactors they had are both gone, they're down, they're finished.
Colin Powell, celebrating the illegal bombing of two live nuclear reactors in Iraq during the Gulf War, 1991
If President Milosevic really wants all of his population to have water and electricity all he has to do is accept NATO's five conditions and we will stop this campaign.
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea
In the United States we would not consider for the presidency a man who had once thrown a bomb into a crowded restaurant, but we are happy to elect a man who once dropped bombs from airplanes that destroyed not only restaurants but the buildings that contained them and the neighborhoods that surrounded them.
C. Douglas Lummis, political scientist, 1994
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the [Khmer Rouge]. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, on the U.S. strategy against Vietnams occupation of Cambodia
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