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Nya citat 2005-08-01
En klick amerikanska storindustrialister är vilt beslutna att ersätta vår demokratiska stat med en fascistisk. I Berlin hade jag många tillfällen att se hur nära våra ledande familjer står naziregimen.
William Dodd, historieprofessor och den dåvarande amerikanske ambassadören i Berlin, 1937, om risken för en statskupp i USA
Mitt fortplantningssystem är mitt och bara mitt. Det tillhör ingen nnan än mig. Jag beståmmer vad som ska hända med det, vad jag gör med det och det är mitt att ta hand om. Vad jag gör med min kropp stannar mellan min doktor och mig. George Walker Bush! Ta bort dina smutsiga händer från min kropp!
Margarita Lopez, New York
Det är rätt otrevliga grejer
Presstalesman för Saab Bofors Dynamics om pansarvärnsvapnet Carl-Gustaf, 2003
It shall be unlawful for a foreign national direcdy or through any other person to make any contribution of money or other thing of value, or to promise expressly or impliedly to make any such contribution, in connection with an election to any political office or in connection with any primary election...
Title 2, United States Code Amended (USCA), Section 441e(a)
What we're doing in Vietnam is using the black man to kill the yellow man so the white man can keep the land he took from the red man.
Dick Gregory
To identify barriers to private sector development at the local and federal levels in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and to push for legislative change ... [and] to develop strategies for private sector growth.
National Endowment for Democracy, describing one of its 1997-98 programs
A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.
Allen Weinstein in 1991, about the National Endowment for Democracy, which he helped to set up in 1983
German politicians still support the rather naive idea that political allies should not spy on each other's businesses. The Americans and the British do not have such illusions...
Udo Ulfkotte, journalist specializing in European industrial espionage, on the German industry complains about the disadvantage they get because their government forbids its security services from conducting industrial espionage
One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.
President Reagan, 1983, in response to a overwhelming majority in the UN General Assembly voting to disapprove of the US invasion of Grenada
[Nicaragua under the Sandinistas was] exceptional in the strength of that government's commitment ... to improving the condition of the people and encouraging their active participation in the development process.
Oxfam, an international development organization, comparing their experiences from working in 76 different developing countries
In the United States, as you know, we are sympathetic with what you are trying to do here... We wish your government well.
Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, to Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile
What we are really seeing is a ratcheting up of a counterinsurgency policy masquerading as a counter-drug policy.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), in 1999, about the US military support to the Colombian regime
[The Mexican government] will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and of security policy ... [and] will need to consider carefully whether or not allow opposition victories if fairly won at the ballot box.
Riordan Roett, a consultant working for Chase Manhattan Bank, in a memorandum from 1995
U.S.-supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against narcotics traffickers, was being used by the colombian military to commit these abuses in the name of 'counter insurgency'.
Amnesty International, 1994, estimating that more than 20,000 people had been killed in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the military and its paramilitary allies
The guidance that was sent from the U.S. was that what had to be done with the captured guerrillas was to get information, and that afterwards they didn't deserve to live.
Eladio Moll, retired Uruguayan Navy rear admiral and former intelligence chief, testifying in 1998 on US involvement in Uruguay's "dirty war", 1972-1983
American diplomats exercise more control over domestic politics in Honduras than in any other country in the hemisphere, and in private that fact is universally acknowledged here.
New York Times, 1988
A melding in the American public's mind and in Congress of this connection would lead to the necessary support to counter the guerrilla/narcotics terrorists in this hemisphere ... Congress would find it difficult to stand in the way of supporting our allies with the training, advice and security assistance necessary to do the job. Those church and academic groups that have slavishly supported insurgency in Latin America would find themselves on the wrong side of the moral issue. Above all, we would have the unassailable moral position from which to launch a concerted effort using Department of Defense (DOD) and non-DOD assets.
Col. John Waghelstein, Special Forces commander, in 1987 about the importance of linking Latin American guerrillas to narcotics trade
If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace ... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great ahout 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, on the continous attacks on Iraq in the end of the 1990s
Iran, like ourselves, has seen benefit in a stalemate situation ... in which Iraq is intrinsically weakened by the Kurds' refusal to relinquish semi-autonomy. Neither Iran nor ourselves wish to see the matter resolved one way or the other.
CIA memo from 1974, about the military aid they provided to the Kurds fighting for their autonomy in Iraq
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
Henry Kissinger, on why the U.S. suddenly let the Iraqi regime crush the Kurdish rebellion in 1975
This policy was not imparted to [the Kurds], who were encouraged to continue fighting. Even in the context of covert action, ours was a cynical enterprise.
The congressional Pike Committee, about the CIA prefering the Kurds in Iraq not to win, but still supported their struggle with military aid in order to keep the Iraqi forces busy
'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. 'They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.'
From a U.S. military news release, July 13, 2005. The almost exact same quote was used in another news release on July 24, also citing an 'Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified'.
You say that there are some who say we should have been more openly critical. I think it depends upon your first premise; do you believe that Chechnya is a part of Russia or not? I would remind you that we once had a Civil War in our country in which we lost on a per-capita basis far more people than we lost in any of the wars of the 20th century over the proposition that Abraham Lincoln gave his life for, that no State had a right to withdraw from our Union.
President Clinton during a visit in Moscow in April 1996, three years before his decision to bomb Yugoslavia for trying to prevent Kosovos withdrawal
Once you kill people because you don't like what they say, you change the rules of war.
Robert Fisk, British foreign correspondent, on the US bombing of the Serbian TV
Our situation, or better or worse, is that Korea is a treaty ally, and the US has a very strong security interest in that part of the world.
US State Department spokesman, after a US-supported crackdown on students and workers in the city of Kwangju 1980, killing hundreds or thousands of people
In the view of some observers, continued dictatorship in Thailand suits the United States, since it assures a continuation of American bases in the country and that, as a US official put it bluntly, 'is our real interest in this place'.
Washington Post, 1966
He's our kind of guy.
Senior official of the Clinton administration, about general Suharto, dictator of Indonesia, in 1995
You've done much to strengthen the tradition of 5,000 years' commitment to freedom.
President Ronald Reagan to Korean military strongman Chun Doo Hwan, in 1981. In 1996, a Korean court convicted Chun of treason and murder, and sentenced him to death, for his role in the Kwangju massacre of 1980.
It really was a big help to the army ... They probably killed a lot of people, and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands. But that's not all bad. There's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.
US diplomat on the list of about 5000 names of suspected communists that the US emabassy gave Indonesian army during their mass slayings in 1965
United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Moynihan, US ambassador to the UN, on the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975
I made the numbers up
US Philippine embassy official, on their information to the media in 1991 that embassy polls indicated that 68 percent, 72 percent or even 81 percent of the Philippine people supported the US military bases
[Even] where armed domestic opposition is negligible or nonexistent, U.S. forces are teaching armies how to track down opponents, surprise them in helicopter attacks, kill them with more proficiency, or, in some cases, how to lead house-to-house raids in 'close quarters combat' designed for cities.
Washington Post, in 1998, on US military aid and training to Third World regimes
I asked Talbot whether America could have intervened the e night of the coup, to prevent the death of democracy in Greece. He denied that they could have done anything about it. Then Margaret asked a critical question: What if the coup had been a Communist or a Leftist coup? Talbot answered without hesitation. Then, of course, they would have intervened, and they would have crushed the coup.
Andreas Papandreou, about a visit he and his wife Margaret had with American ambassador Phillips Talbot eight months after the military coup in April 1967
[Mobuto was] our best friend in Africa
President George Bush, about of Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire
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