"If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn 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."

--U.S. Brig. General William Looney (Interview Washington Post, August 30, 1999) [Referring, in reality, to the brutal mass-murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during 10,000 sorties by American/British war criminals in the first eight months of 1999]

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."

--Ramsey Clark [Former U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson]

"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 [U.S. President during World War I]

"The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world."

--Amnesty International ["United States of America - Rights for All" October 1998]

"Israel controls the United States Senate."

- Sen. William Fulbright

"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."

-- Ronald Reagan, former US President, basking in the triumph that was the US invasion of Grenada, 1983

"We do not have any defence treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defence or security commitments to Kuwait."

-- Margaret Tutweiller, US State Department spokeswoman, 24th July 1990, nine days before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

"Stopping terrorism is simple. Just quit screwing around with other people's countries and the terrorists will go home. But the government of the United States wants to go on screwing around with other people's countries, refuses to stop, indeed views it as Manifest Destiny for the United States Government to persist in screwing around with other people's countries, and views the inconvenience, increased tax burden, loss of civil liberties, and even deaths among the American people as just another cost of doing business.  
-- Michael Rivero

"I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized 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

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

-- Leading Nazi leader, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death

" Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the (U.S.) media."

-- Noam Chomsky

"It's a hard decision, but we think the price ... is worth it."

-- Secretary of State Madelaine Albright talking about Iraqi children starving and dying as a result of the US embargo of food and medicine

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

-- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, about Chile prior to the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of socialist President Salvadore Allende in 1973


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Man, thank god I live in America.  I'd hate to be on the wrong side of a country that bad-ass.  

these quotes hold much truth and offer a powerful perspective into the politics of the west - for that i respect you

but aint there plenty quotes for every other culture that makes them look just as bad, why couldnt these have been posted as well instead of solely having a go at the west?