"We Love Freedom." Is this what you mean Mr.Bush?
A History of US Freedom and Democracy In Their Own Words.
The Untaught Syllabus. 26.


"Negroes in the great numbers that exist here must of necessity be slaves.
Theoretical notions of humanity and religion cannot shake the commercial fact
that their labour is of great value and cannot be dispensed with."

(US Union general William Sherman.)



"I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of
responsibility."

(US actor John Wayne.)



"Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great
truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery - subordination
to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition."

(US Vice President Alexander Stephens, 1861.)



"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There
were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly
trying to keep it for themselves."

(US actor John Wayne.)



"Segregation in the South is a way of life. It is a precious and sacred custom.
It is one of our dearest and most treasured possessions. It is the means by
which we live in social peace, order and security."

(US Judge Thomas P.Brady.)



"The Negro baby born in America today, regardless of the section or the stage in
which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing a high school
as a white baby born in the same place, on the same day; one-third as much
chance of completing college; one-third as much chance of becoming a
professional man; twice as much chance of becoming unemployed; about one-seventh
as much chance of earning $10,000 a year, a life expectancy which is seven years
shorter, and the prospects of earning only half as much."

(US President Kennedy, in his broadcast to the nation, June 11, 1963.)



"I saw about five squaws hiding under a bank for shelter. When the troops
came... they ran out to show the soldiers that they were squaws and begged for
mercy, but the soldiers shot them all. I saw one squaw lying on the bank...
soldier came up to her with a drawn sabre; she raised her arm to protect
herself, when he struck, breaking her arm; she rolled over and raised her other
arm, when he struck, breaking it, and then left her without killing her...
indiscriminate slaughter of men, women and children... thirty or forty squaws
collected in a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years
old with a white flag on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she
was shot and killed. All the squaws in that hole were afterwards killed... the
squaws offered no resistance... I saw one squaw cut open with an unborn child,
as I thought, laying by her side... quite a lot of infants in arms killed with
their mothers."

(Robert Bent, riding with American troops at the Sand Creek massacre of Cheyenne
Indians, 1864.)



"...they had about seventy or seventy five people all gathered up. So we threw
ours in with them... started pushing them off... into the ravine... and just
started using automatics on them... men, women, children... and babies."

(Private Paul Meadlo, My Lai, Vietnam, 1969.)



"The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists
and manufacturers of the United States."

(US President Woodrow Wilson, 1913.)



"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that the measures of the
Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor
poorer."

(US President William Harrison, speech, 1840.)



"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the
people."

(US President Abraham Lincoln.)



"The capitalist class has banded together all over the world and organised the
modern dynasty of associated wealth, which maintains an unquestioned ascendancy
over most of the civilised portions of our race."

(US lawyer, statesman, Samuel Tilden.)



"The working men have been exploited all up and down the line by employers,
landlords, everybody."

(Henry Ford.)



"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant
octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus
of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen... At the head of
this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of
powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The
little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States
government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both
political parties."

(New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922.)



"We always contribute to the funds of the political parties for their election
campaigns in the states. Where the issue is too uncertain, the (sugar) trust
subscribes to the funds of both parties, in order to have some influence on the
winning side."

(US sugar boss Henry Havemeyer.)



"I needed the good will of the legislature of four states. I "formed" the
legislative bodies with my own money. I found that it was cheaper that way... I
can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

(US millionaire Jay Gould, 1836-1892.)



"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in
the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew
Jackson."

(US President Roosevelt, November 21st, 1933.)



"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure."

(US President Kennedy's father, Joseph Kennedy, New York Times, July 26 l936.)



"You can't mine coal without machine guns."

(US industrialist Richard B. Mellon, Time, June 14 1937.)



"What do I care about the law. Haven't I got the power?"

(US millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.)



"Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can't afford to let it in. We have got
to organise ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast.
We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away
from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy."

(Ronald Reagan? Margaret Thatcher? No, Al Capone.)



"As long as I am Mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear
about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear
these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist". You
never hear a real American talk like that."

(US politician Frank Hague, 1938.)



"Have you a book by John Reed?
There is a suspicion that you are in sympathy with the underprivileged. Is that
true?
Are you in favour of the Marshall Plan?
Did you or your wife ever invite a Negro into your home?
Would you say that your wife has liberal political views?
Were any of your relatives ever members of the Communist Party?
Did you ever attend any affairs with your wife where liberal views were
discussed?
Do you ever recall attending a meeting of the American League for Democracy?
Were you ever a subscriber to the Literary Guild?
What kind of books did they put out?
Have you ever discussed the Truman Doctrine?
How do you feel about the segregation of Negroes?
Suppose you found out that your wife was a communist, what would you do?

(US Loyalty Board questionnaire for American citizens.)



Rankin:"Is it true that they eat human bodies there in Russia?"
Bullitt:"I did see the skeleton of a child eaten by its parents."
Rankin:"Then they're just like human slaves in Russia?"
Bullitt:"There are more human slaves in Russia than ever existed anywhere in the
world."
Rankin:"You said before that sixty percent of the Communist Party here are
aliens. Now what percent of these aliens are Jews?
... Is it true, Mr. Bullitt, that the Communists went into the southern states
and picked up niggers and sent them to Moscow to study revolution?
Are you aware they teach niggers to blow up bridges?"

(Testimony of William C. Bullitt to US Un-American Activities Committee.)



"America is the best half educated country in the world."

(Nicholas Murray Butler.)



"An educated proletariat is a constant source of disturbance and danger to any
nation."

(US educator, Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Murray Butler.)



"Why should we subsidise intellectual curiosity?"

(Ronald Reagan.)



"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"

(Richard Nixon.)



"So long as our society is dominated by the spirit of the counting house, so
long will the press continue to express that spirit. In fact, the press is the
most class-conscious segment of big business, since its stock in trade consists
of the legends and folklore of capitalism."

(US educator and political scientist Max Lerner.)



"The daily press has got more power in the shaping of public opinion than any
other force in America."

(US publisher Jerome Barnum, American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1936.)



"The newspaper trade, as now conducted, is prostitution. It mows down the boys
as they come from the colleges. It defaces the very desire for truth and leaves
them without a principle to set a clock by. They grow to disbelieve in the
reality of ideas."

(US writer John Jay Chapman.)



"And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word
capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the "free enterprise system" and run
to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American way of life."

(US movie executive, diplomat, Eric Allen Johnston, New York Times Jan 26 1958.)



"All we have to do is continue to think and talk of war and we will soon create
the national state of mind that is ready for war."

(US, Editor and Publisher. Sept 7 1947.)



"A warlike spirit, which alone can create and civilise a state, is absolutely
essential to national defence and to national perpetuity."

(US General Douglas MacArthur.)



"Delete any footage which includes the idea that war is not altogether glamorous
and noble."

(Hollywood film executive Joseph L.Breen, in a memo to film producers.)



"Our independent American press, with its untrammelled freedom to twist and
misrepresent the news, is one of the barriers in the way of the American people
achieving their freedom."

(US criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow.)



"When you pick up your morning or evening newspaper and think you are reading
the news of the world, what you are really reading is a propaganda which has
been selected, revised, and doctored by some power which has a financial
interest in you... Journalism in America is the business and practice of
presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege."

(US author Upton Sinclair.)



"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know
that it doesn't know. They don't even know what's going on at that remote and
secret level of decision making. That's a real success in the long-term task of
depriving formal democratic structures of any substance."

(Noam Chomsky.)



"The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed on nothing but
lies. We begin with lies and half our lives we live with lies. Most human beings
today waste some twenty-five to thirty years of their lives before they break
through the actual and conventional lies which surround them."

(US dancer Isadora Duncan.)



"The setting up of a new, invisible and all powerful government in this country,
within the last twenty years, in open violation of fundamental and statutory
law, could not have been accomplished under the steady fire of a free and
independent press... Except for the subserviency of most of the metropolitan
newspapers, the great corporate interests would never have ventured upon the
impudent, lawless consolidation of business. control of production, markets and
prices. When the Morgan and Rockefeller interests harmonised to consummate the
great wrong, they well understood that they could not achieve their purpose
against a hostile press. Hence they "took over" the newspapers. .control can be
achieve through that community of interests, that independence of investment and
credits which ties the publisher up to the banks, the advertisers, and special
interests."

(US reformist Robert LaFollette Sr, Fooling the People as a Fine Art, April
1918.)



"I believe that few people aside from myself have any idea of the tremendous,
the almost invincible power and force of the daily press. .the press rules the
country; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practice... The
publisher who has succeeded... is necessarily a capitalist... The press of this
country is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of
the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people
that correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects
which it is necessary that the mass of the people shall have, in order that they
shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the
brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class."

(US newspaper boss Edward Scripps.)



"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and
other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and
respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have
been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject
to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much
more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The
supranational sovereignty of. world bankers is surely preferable to the national
auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

(David Rockefeller, Trilateral Commission, June, 1991.)



"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder
interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the
newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in
the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy
of the daily press... They found it was only necessary to purchase the control
of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers
was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper
to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of
preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and
international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

(U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917.)



".the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state
itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an
individual, by a group. or by any other controlling private power... Among us
today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing..."

(President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, April 29 1938.)



"Fascism is dictatorship from the extreme Right, or to put it a little more
closely into our local idiom, a government which is run by a small group of
large industrialists and financial lords... Now one of the first steps which
Fascism must take in any land in order to capture power is to disrupt and
destroy the labour movement. It must rob trade unions of their power to use the
strike as a weapon."

(US journalist Heywood Broun.)



"Fascism is a dictatorship, and a dictatorship is an authority possessing
irresponsible power... Fascism is an effort to freeze the economic crises
arising from the application of great technology - to freeze it by the pressure
of military forces sustained openly or tacitly by the middle classes."

(US historian Charles Beard.)



"I see only one danger - and it is a grave danger - the purchase by corporations
which have "interests to protect" , and by enormously wealthy men who have
ambitions to serve, .to give the people only such information as will help their
owners, suppressing all information that might injure them, on the one hand, and
on the other hand, giving them information that will help the owners. This of
course poisons the source of the people's information, and, so far as their
influence goes, makes them a good deal worse than ignorant, because it makes
them misinformed."

(US statesman A.J.Beveridge.)



"Reactionaries call the tune and the daily press dances to it."

(US statesman Henry Wallace.)



"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and
sterile."

(US writer Sinclair Lewis, in a letter declining the Pulitzer Prize.)



"There is no such thing in America as an independent press... There is not one
of you who dare to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand
they would never appear in print... We are the tools and vassals of rich men...
they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents... our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

(US newspaper editor John Swinton, 1883.)



"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less
than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to
dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a
whole. This system was to be controlled .by the central banks of the world
acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings
and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International
Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the
worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of
financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control
and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect
injury of all other economic groups."

(US Professor Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University, 1966.)



"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were
his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his
thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for
him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. .The
UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for
financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World
revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power... The One World Government leaders
and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and
credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal
Reserve Bank."

(US President Roosevelt's son-in-law Curtis Dall, in his book "My Exploited
Father-in-Law".)



"The planning of UN can be traced to the 'secret steering committee' established
by Secretary [of State Cordell] Hull in January 1943. All of the members of this
secret committee, with the exception of Hull. were members of the Council on
Foreign Relations. They saw Hull regularly to plan, select, and guide the labors
of the [State] Department's Advisory Committee. It was, in effect, the
coordinating agency for all the State Department's postwar planning."

(US Professors Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, "Imperial Brain Trust: The
CFR and United States Foreign Policy." Monthly Review Press, 1977.)



"The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational
consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the
political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents
a skilful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers
of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the
Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior
to the political governments of the nation states involved. As managers and
creators of the system, they will rule the future."

(U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964, in his book "With No Apologies.")



"Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and can be
ours. And we shall get it, as our Mother England has told us how... We will
cover the ocean with our merchant marine. We will build a navy to the measure of
our greatness... Our institutes will follow our trade. American law, American
order, American civilisation, and the American flag will plant themselves on
shores hitherto bloody and benighted, by those agencies of God henceforth made
beautiful and bright."

(US Senator Albert Beveridge, 1898.)



"...an American Empire which will be... capable of exercising decisive world
control. .the United States cannot .win the leadership of a viable world
political order merely by appeals to rational conviction. Power must be there,
with the known readiness to use it, whether in the indirect form of paralysing
economic sanctions, or in the direct explosion of bombs. As the ultimate reserve
in the power series there would be monopoly control of atomic weapons.
'Independence' and 'freedom' are after all abstractions."

(US theorist James Burnham, "The Struggle for the World." Published in Life
magazine 1947.)



"The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main
uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world
order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new
order will be born no later than early in the next century."

(Richard A. Falk, "On the Creation of a Just World Order." 1975.)



"A world once divided into two armed camps now recognises one sole and
pre-eminent power, the United States of America. And they regard this with no
dread. For the world trusts us with power, and the world is right. They trust us
to do what's right."

(US President Bush, New York Times, January 29 1992.)



"We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the
collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms."

(Washington Post, May 1991.)



"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from
the top down... but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece
by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."

(Richard Gardner, Foreign Affairs, US Council on Foreign Relations, April l974.)



"The United States will in fact have no other choice but to establish a world
order it is able to live with, a world where there is relatively free access to
the world's resources."

(US Wall Street Journal, Nov 26 1979.)



"The US is leader of the free world, and under this administration is beginning
to act like it. If the Europeans don't like it, that's too bad, it's too late to
do anything about it now."

(US Vice President George Bush, Chicago, August 16 1982.)



"Commercial and industrial predominance forces a nation to seek markets, and
where possible to control them to its own advantage by prepondering force, the
ultimate expression of which is possession... An inevitable link in a chain of
logical sequences: industry, markets, control, navy bases."

(US naval historian Alfred Mahan.)



"For defensive purposes the sovereignty of the United States extends to the
whole continent."

(US Secretary of State Richard Olney, 1895.)



"We make use of the Monroe Doctrine [control of Latin America and the Caribbean
BM.] according to our needs, our will and the power of our weapons."

(US Secretary of State Knox, 1919.)



"It is still possible, I believe, to fight some wars using conventional forces
that don't involve nuclear weapons... but I think that if you advise potential
opponents in advance that you do not intend to cross certain lines, then you
have almost assured another Vietnam... Any time you get into a war the
possibility that you will use every weapon available has to be left open."

(US Defence Secretary Casper Weinberger, Jan 6 1981.)



"We must be prepared for waging a conventional war that may extend to many parts
of the globe. Many of the resources that we need for energy and many essential
strategic minerals are found thousands of miles from our shores... If we are to
safeguard our access, and the access of the free world, to these resources, we
must increase our military and naval strength."

(US Defence Secretary Casper Weinberger, April 28 1981.)



"The plan says that 'we must revitalise and enhance special-operations [nuclear
B.M.] forces to project US power where the use of conventional forces would be
premature, inappropriate or infeasible'... As outlined in the paper, the
strategy for Southwest Asia, including the Persian Gulf, directs American forces
to be ready to force their way in if necessary, and not to wait for an
invitation from a friendly government, which has been the publicly stated
policy."

(US Defense Dept, New York Times May 30 1982.)



"Today, our national security can be threatened in far away places. It is up to
all of us to be aware of the strategic importance of such places and to be able
to identify them. ...all are vital to us and if it went to world powers hostile
to the free world, there would be a direct threat to the United States and to
our allies."

(Ronald Reagan, in a Television Address, Oct 27 1983.)



"Fundamental national interests require the United States to use military force
in defense of our interests with comparative freedom if it should become
necessary to do so not only in Europe, but in other strategically critical parts
of the world. In my view - and I speak for President Reagan - this must remain
the minimum goal of our nuclear arsenal."

(Former Director of US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Eugene Rostow.)



"US global power projection rests upon a co-operative Caribbean and a supportive
South America. The exclusion of Old World maritime powers from Cuba, the
Caribbean and Latin America has helped the United States generate sufficient
surplus power for balancing activities on European, Asian and African
continents... Latin America, like Western Europe and Japan, is part of America's
power base. Any United States power base, be it in Latin America, Western Europe
or the Western Pacific, cannot be allowed to crumble if the United States is to
retain adequate extra energy to be able to play a balancing role elsewhere in
the world. For a balancing state like the United States, there is no possibility
of flexible global action if its power is immobilised or checked in any one
area."

(From the Santa Fe Document, Inter-American Security Inc. Washington, 1980.)



"It will become increasingly difficult in the near future to protect US overseas
interests with conventional weapons... the use of, at least, tactical nuclear
weapons is the only option available to us. I think in the future we may get
into areas where it will be increasingly difficult to maintain stability with
conventional forces, and nuclear weapons will be our only alternative. I have
in mind situations far from our shores,... where we would have difficulty, from
a logistics point of view, at least, in reaching the areas in which we have
considerable US interests. Such situations could well involve a non nuclear
power... We just would not have the capability, quantitatively and
qualitatively, to take care of the situation with conventional force...

That motivation is the need for the United States to look more and more overseas
for the resources to provide economic strength... we will be looking
increasingly towards Africa and the Middle East, as well as South America, for
the materials required by our industrial economy... We will require free access
and intercourse with many far distant nations of the world in order to remain a
leading export - import nation.

We may have confrontations with non-nuclear states such as Cuba. We may have
confrontations with nuclear or non-nuclear nations whose geographical location
is such that we have no adequate means of protecting our interests with
conventional weapons... The use of nuclear weapons with varying capabilities
might be the only effective method of accomplishing our objectives, protecting
our interests, and minimising the overall death and destruction that might
accrue."

(Testimony of Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller, US Navy, March 18 1976.)



"...under certain circumstances likely to develop in Europe, we may be forced to
make first use of nuclear weapons. We will never be able to put into effect our
joint plans in this vital area unless quite exceptional efforts are made to
check European tendencies towards neutralism, pacifism and unilateralism. To
achieve this it is necessary, I feel, to emphasise the theme that the nuclear
weapons balance, particularly in the European theatre, has changed sharply in
favour of the East. We should constantly bear in mind the necessity of
directing attention to the Soviet military threat and of further activising our
collaboration with the mass media. If argument, persuasion and compacting the
media fail, we are left with no alternative to jolt the faint-hearted in Europe
through the creation of situations, country by country, as deemed necessary, to
convince them where their interests lie. This would call for appropriate action
of a sensitive nature which we have frequently discussed..."

(Ex US NATO Supreme Commander Alexander Haig, in a letter to ex Nazi Secretary
General of NATO Joseph Lunz. June 1979.)



"High Military Officers in the Pentagon have been saying they cannot be expected
to fight a conventional war for longer than a few days if millions of Americans
are able to watch it night after night on their television screens. Public
revulsion would create intolerable pressures to scale back or end the fighting
altogether, as happened in Vietnam."

(Washington correspondent of the London Evening Standard, Nov 5 1986.)



"Military needs have now become the single dominant factor in American economic
policy overseas."

(The Times Sept 17 1951.)



"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or
consent."

(Council on Foreign Relations member James Warburg, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, February 17, l950.)



"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will
recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great
idea after all."

(US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot, Time, July 20, l992.)



"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from
the top down... but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece
by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."

(Richard Gardner, Foreign Affairs, US Council on Foreign Relations, April l974.)



"Leadership towards a new system of international relationships in trade and
other economic affairs will devolve largely on the US because of our great
economic strength. We should assume this leadership and the responsibility which
goes with it, primarily for reasons of pure national self interest."

(Roosevelt's US Secretary of State Cordell Hull.)



"Whether we like it or not, we must all recognise that the victory which we have
won has placed upon the American people the continuing burden of responsibility
for world leadership. The future peace of the world will depend in large part
upon whether or not the United States shows that it is really determined to
continue its role as a leader among nations."

(US President Truman's message to Congress, Dec 19 1945.)



"...to set forth the political, military, territorial and economic requirements
of the United States in its potential leadership of the non-German world area,
including the United Kingdom itself as well as the Western hemisphere and the
Far East. The first and foremost requirement of the United States in a world in
which it proposes to hold unquestionable power in the rapid fulfilment of a
programme of complete re-armament... to secure the limitation of any exercise of
sovereignty by foreign nations that constitutes a threat to the minimum world
area essential for the security and economic prosperity of the United States."

(Economic and Financial Group of the US Council of Foreign Relations. 1940.)



"Geographically, our territory extends to the Aleutians, Hawaii and Guam in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean... We are a global power with global tasks. We have
to be prepared to fulfil the tasks facing us in Asia in the same ways as we are
prepared to fulfil them elsewhere."

(Former US Defence Secretary Brown.)



"Now the Pacific has become an Anglo-Saxon lake, and our line of defence runs
through the chain of islands fringing the coast of Asia."

(US General MacArthur, Daily Mail March 2 1949.)



"The United States, as an island nation heavily dependent on overseas raw
materials, must continue its forward deployment of forces in Asia and the
Pacific region. There is no cheaper way to American security."

(US Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci.)



"It has been suggested that we announce that we will not use atomic weapons
except in retaliation against prior use of such weapons by an aggressor...
Unless we are to abandon our objectives, we cannot make such a declaration in
good faith until we are confident that we will be in a position to obtain our
objectives without war, or, in the event of war, without recourse to the use of
atomic weapons for strategic or tactical purposes."

(From US security document NSC Directive 68, April 14 1950.)



"We must maintain armed forces all over the world. The United States may have to
occupy more countries before the cold war is ended."

(US Vice President Barkley, New Orleans, May 22 1950.)



"A persistent trend in American thought - the belief that there can be no peace
and security for the American states until every Communist government has been
rooted out in Asia and in Europe. This is a policy of unlimited liability."

(The Times May 22 1951.)



"Over two-thirds of the globe, along the great area stretching from Europe to
Japan, no treaty can be signed, no alliance can be forged, no decision can be
made without the approval and support of the United States Government."

(The Times Aug 29 1951.)



"In Asia our efforts were far less successful... the conception of force was too
nakedly shown, too much stress was laid on the military side, while we largely
ignored the importance of preliminary economic preparations for the alliances we
wished to make. But the same military measures will often be found
unobjectionable if the way to them is paved with economic aid...

The most significant example in practice of what I mean was the Iranian
experiment with which, as you will remember, I was directly concerned. By the
use of economic aid we succeeded in getting access to Iranian oil and we are now
well established in the economy of that country. The strengthening of our
economic position in Iran has enabled us to acquire control over her foreign
policy and in particular to make her join the Bagdad Pact. At the present time
the Shah would not dare even to make any changes in his cabinet without
consulting our Ambassador...

For us to have in Asia, Africa and other under-developed areas a political and
military influence as great or greater than we obtained through the Marshall
Plan in Europe. It is necessary for us to act carefully and patiently, and in
the early stages confine ourselves to securing very modest political concessions
in exchange for our economic aid (in some exceptional cases even without any
concessions in return). The way will then be open to us, but at a later stage,
to step up both our political price and our military demands...

In this case governmental subsidies and credits may take the form of military
appropriations. The hooked fish needs no bait. At the same time economic support
for those strata of the local business community which are ready to co-operate
with the US should be increased and the necessary conditions would be created
for businessmen of this type to be put in key economic positions and accordingly
for their political influence to be increased.

...the main emphasis in economic assistance as regards government subsidies and
credits should be on creating conditions in which eventually the economic
relations established by us would work for and make it natural for these
countries to join military pacts and alliances inspired by us. The essence of
this policy should be that the development of our economic relations with these
countries would ultimately allow us to take over key positions in the native
economy... By this means we can hope to divert the foreign policy of these
countries in a more desirable direction...

...support should be given in particular... to native businessmen who are
struggling against their colonial status. ...if we do not support them we lose
all hope of exercising a restraining influence on them until it is too late. If
this happens the desire for independence may result in a nationalism so strong
as to escape not only from the control of the old colonial powers but also from
our own control. Extensive economic aid... should always be presented as an
expression of a sincere and disinterested desire on the part of the US to help
and co-operate with them."

(Letter from US Council on Foreign Relations member millionaire Nelson
Rockefeller to President Eisenhower, January 1956.)



"The conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank with a great deal of clout
in Mr Reagan's White House, argues that Vietnam, Kampuchea, Libya, Laos, Angola,
Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Iran are ripe for covert American activity
aimed at destabilising their governments."

(The Guardian November 22 1984.)



"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as
well as in words and money."

(Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Foreign Affairs July/August 1995.)



"As the largest producer, the largest source of capital, and the biggest
contributor to the global mechanism, we must set the pace and assume the
responsibility of the majority stockholder in this corporation known as the
world... Nor is this for a given term of office. This is a permanent
obligation."

(Leo D. Welch, Secretary-Treasurer of US Standard Oil Company, 1946.)



"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."

(US President Reagan, New York Times, November 4 1983.)



"Power must be there, with the known readiness to use it, whether in the
indirect form of paralysing economic sanctions, or in the direct explosion of
bombs. 'Independence' and 'freedom' are after all abstractions."

(US theorist James Burnham, Life magazine 1947.)



"Many of the resources that we need for energy and many essential strategic
minerals are found thousands of miles from our shores... If we are to safeguard
our access, and the access of the free world, to these resources, we must
increase our military and naval strength."

(US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger, April 28 1981.)



"Western industrialised societies are largely dependent on the oil resources of
the Middle East region and a threat to access to that oil would constitute a
grave threat to the vital national interests. This must be dealt with; and that
does not exclude the use of force if necessary."

(US Secretary of State Alexander Haig, March 11 1981.)



"The economic health and well-being of the United States, Western Europe, Japan
depend upon continued access to the oil from the Persian area."

(President Carter, Department of State Bulletin, April 1978.)



"Our aim is not simply to appropriate oil in one way or another (say in easily
accessible Nigeria or Venezuela) but to crush OPEC. Therefore we have to use
direct force in order to get hold of large and concentrated oil deposits which
can be opened up rapidly so as to put an end to the artificial oil shortage and
thus to lower the price... Since this is the ultimate and there is only one
target possible: Saudi Arabia... Fortunately, these are not only rich oilfields
but they are also concentrated in a very small area, a fraction of the Saudi
Arabian territory... While Vietnam was full of trees and brave people and our
national interest was almost invisible, what we have here is no trees, very few
people and a clear objective."

(Advisor to the US Defence Department Professor Miles Ignotas, March 1975.)



"By the use of economic aid we succeeded in getting access to Iranian oil. The
strengthening of our economic position in Iran has enabled us to acquire control
over her foreign policy. the Shah would not dare even to make any changes in
his cabinet without consulting our Ambassador."

(US Council on Foreign Relations member Nelson Rockefeller to President
Eisenhower, January 1956.)



"In the future, we are more likely to be involved in Iraq-type things,
Panama-type things, Grenada-type things. Our position should be the protection
of the oilfields. Now whether Kuwait gets put back, that's subsidiary stuff."

(Chairman of US Armed Services Committee Les Aspin, 1990.)



"It would be tragic if the nations of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf were
now to embark on a new arms race."

(US President Bush, March 23 1991.)



"The US has emerged from the war as the Gulf's premier arms seller. The White
House has told Congress in a classified report it wanted five Middle East allies
to buy an $18 billion package of top drawer weapons."

(New York Times March 26 1991.)



"They know we own their country [Iraq]. 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 Brigadier General William Looney, Washington Post, August 30 1999.)



"Historical data shows a strong correlation between US involvement in
international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United
States."

(US Department of Defence, October 1997.)



".you only have to go to Lebanon, to Syria or to Jordan to witness first hand
the intense hatred among many people for the United States because we bombed and
shelled and unmercifully killed totally innocent villagers - woman and children
and farmers and housewives - in those villages around Beirut."

(Former US President Jimmy Carter, New York Times, March 26 1989.)



"We think the price is worth it."

(US Ambassador to UN Madeleine Albright, when asked on TV whether half a million
children dying as a result of US sanctions against Iraq, May 12 1996. Albright
was then appointed US Secretary of State.)



"Regret what? That secret operation [supporting Mujaheddin against the Afghan
Government BM] was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians
into the Afghan trap and you want me to forget it? The day that the Soviets
officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the
opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War. Indeed, for almost 10 years,
Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that
brought about the demoralisation and finally the break-up of the Soviet empire."

(US National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, January 15 1998.)



"Give me the order to do it and I can break up Russia's five A-bomb nests in a
week. And when I went up to Christ, I think I could explain to him why I wanted
to do it - now - before it's too late. I think I could explain to him that I had
saved civilisation."

(Major General Orville Anderson, US Army Air Force, 1950.)



"The stage is set, the destiny disclosed. It has come about by no plan of our
conceiving, but by the hand of God who led us into the war... We can only go
forward, with lifted eyes and freshened spirit, to follow the vision."

(US President Wilson, 1919.)



"God... has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in
the regeneration of the world."

(US Senator Albert Beveridge, 1900.)



"To see freedom sent around the world, this is our mission... It was God's
charge to us."

(US Senator Barry Goldwater.)



"I have long believed that there is a divine plan which has entrusted this land
to a people with a special destiny."

(Ronald Reagan, 1981.)



"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this,
the last best hope for man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last
step into a thousand years of darkness."

(Ronald Reagan, 1964.)



"I have read the Book of Revelations and yes, I believe the world is going to
end."

(Caspar Weinberger.)



"You know, I turn back to your ancient prophets in the Old Testament and the
signs foretelling Armageddon, and I find myself wondering if - if we're the
generation that's going to see that one come about."

(Ronald Reagan, Oct 18 1983, in Watchtower (Jehovah's Witness) Jan 1 1985.)



"If it takes a bloodbath... let's get it over with."

(Ronald Reagan, Governor of California, 1966-1974.)



"What are they going to say about us? What are those people 100 years from now
going to think? They will know whether we used those weapons... Well; what they
will say about us a hundred years from now depends on how we keep our rendezvous
with destiny. Will we do the things that we know must be done and know that one
day down in history, a hundred years or perhaps before someone will say 'thank
God for those people back in the 1980s for preserving our freedom, for saving
for us this blessed planet called Earth'."

(Ronald Reagan, in his 1984 television election debate.)



"Mr James Forrestal (US Secretary of Defence) is out of his mind and has been
partly for some weeks... Mr. Forrestal became obsessed with the idea that the
Russians were invading the United States, and when a fire siren blew he jumped
out of bed and had to be restrained. Later the siren blew a second time and
Mr.Forrestal then ran out of the house in his pyjamas, screaming about the Red
Army, and it was with some difficulty that he was caught and brought back into
the house... It is hoped that important decisions made while he was possibly not
in his right mind will be reviewed."

(US radio commentator Drew Pearson, in a radio broadcast, April 10 1945.)



"There was never, from about two weeks from the time I took charge, any
illusions on my part, but that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was
carried out on that basis. I didn't go along with attitude of the whole country
that Russia was our gallant ally."

(General Groves, director of the Manhattan atom bomb project.)



"In March 1944 I experienced a disagreeable shock. In a casual conversation,
General Leslie Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "You realise, of
course, that the real purpose of making the bomb is to subdue our chief enemy,
the Russians!" Until then I thought that our work was to prevent a Nazi
victory."

(Professor Joseph Rotblatt, The Times July 17 1985.)



"I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan
was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary...
Japan was at that very moment seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss
of face. .It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

(Dwight D. Eisenhower.)



"...it wasn't necessary to use the bomb against the cities of Japan in order to
win the war but our possession and demonstration of the bomb would make the
Russians more manageable in Europe."

(US Secretary of State James Byrnes.)



"The assertion that the new American bombs brought the Japanese war to an end is
a myth. As we know, weeks before the appearance of the atom bombs, the Emperor
Hirohito had already asked Stalin to mediate; thus openly admitting defeat. In
reality Japan had been brought down by the interruption of her sea
communications by Anglo-American sea power and the danger of a Soviet thrust
across Manchuria cutting off the Japanese armies in Asia from home."

(The Times Aug 16 1945.)



"Why did we drop the bomb? Or why didn't we try it out under the auspices of the
allied powers, to show its tremendous effectiveness, and on that basis, send an
ultimatum to Japan, and throw the responsibility on to the Japanese themselves?
Whatever the answer to that question, if the aim of the atomic bomb lay in the
fact that we had to beat Japan before the Soviet Union could take part in the
war (with Japan), no experiment could take place."

(Saturday Review, June 15 1946.)



"There was not enough time between 16 July when we knew at New Mexico that the
bomb would work, and 8 August, the Russian deadline date, for us to have set up
the very complicated machinery of a test atomic bombing involving time-consuming
problems of area preparations, etc... No, any test would have been impossible if
the purpose was to knock Japan out before Russia came in - or at least before
Russia could make anything other than a token of participation prior to a
Japanese collapse."

(Thomas K. Finletter, Chairman of US Air Policy Committee.)



"We wanted to get through the Japanese phase of the war before the Russians came
in."

(US Secretary of State James Byrnes.)



"The bomb might well put us in a position to dictate our own terms at the end of
the war."

(US Secretary of State James Byrnes.)



"Anyone who doesn't realise that the great struggle of our time is an
ideological one, is not looking the question squarely in the face."

(US President Eisenhower.)



"The community of arms is there to defend the community of ideas."

(Ronald Reagan, speaking on NATO, on the visit of Helmut Kohl, Washington, Nov
15 1982.)



"Today, as never before, we are engaged in a fierce battle of ideas, our
adversary is the Soviet Union... This competition is not new... it has been
going on since the end of World War II. Our strategy, however, has remained
virtually unchanged... The time has come to take the initiative, to make our
case boldly and well. It is time to reorganise USIA [United States Information
Agency B.M.] as an important component of the American foreign affairs
community. Indeed, USIA is on the cutting edge of the struggle for men's minds."

(USIA Director Charles Wick, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
March 1983, requesting $711.4 million for USIA's 1984 "Project Democracy.")



"Three-fourths (one may say nine-tenths) of the people of the world are poor...
but the miserably poor want to turn the world upside down - today. They regard
the United States as basically in favour of the status quo. All rich people are
supposed to be that way. More significant, perhaps, is the fact that Moscow is
regarded by most of the poor people around the world as the friend of the poor
and of the rebel... In a nation motivated by revolutionary fervour, including
countries which have recently become independent and those undergoing rapid
social change, there is great enthusiasm for planning for the future. Five,
seven, and even ten-year plans are popular. People are told to sacrifice present
living for future benefits to the nation and to their children. Emphasis on
consumer goods for the present generation seems disloyal, unpatriotic, and even
immoral... Russians, who are pictured as sacrificing themselves today for the
benefit of their children of tomorrow, are somehow regarded as more admirable
than profligate Americans."

(US Information Agency Director George Allen.)



"New Democracy, New Business; US Drive to Stop Communism Abroad Means Heavy
Financial Outlays for Bases, Relief and Reconstruction. But in Return, American
Business is Bound to Get New Markets Abroad."

(Feature article headlines in US "Business Week" March 22 1947.)



"We cannot afford, through any misguided and perilous idea of avoiding an
aggressive attitude, to permit the first blow to be struck against us. Our
government, under such conditions, should press the issue to a prompt political
decision, while making all preparations to strike the first blow if necessary."

(US Joint Chiefs of Staff directives 1496/2 and SWNCC 282.)



"To use our strategic air power successfully we must have bases so located
around the world that we can reach any target we may be called upon to hit."

(US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.)



"War! As soon as possible! Now!... We must start by hitting below the belt. This
war cannot be conducted according to Marquis of Queensberry rules."

(US Military Attache in Moscow General Grow, 1952.)



"The American people would execute you if you did not use the bomb in the event
of war."

(US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.)



"British opinion had not yet crystallised to the extent that ours had."

(Ex US Secretary of State James Forrestal.)



"In the event of a major war, certain objectives were clear. The United States
should follow "what has been our one and only basic policy in the last thirty
years. This is that we prefer to fight our wars, if they be necessary, in
someone elses territory." Through its farflung system of bases and the mobility
of its forces, the United States would shield itself..."

(US researcher M.S.Sherry, quoting from US declassified documents JCS 1496/2 and
JCS 1519, of September and October 1945, in his book "Preparing for the Next
War.".)



"The US deliberately constructed out of the ruins of the war an international
monetary order based on the dollar... With its nuclear and armed forces, the US
stood ready to guarantee this open economic system against threats from the
Soviet Union on the outside and enemies that might close off certain markets and
needed resources such as oil on the inside. As both banker and cop, the US was
the guarantor of the postwar global economy."

(Business Week March 12 1979.)



"For us, outer space is primarily a theatre of military operations."

(Deputy head of US Space Command Lieutenant General R. Henry.)



"He who controls outer space can keep the whole world on target."

(US Under Secretary of State.)



"Secretary of State Marshall accuses the Soviet Union of waging a propaganda
campaign for peace. .Twice this year Stalin tried for direct peace talks with
Truman. Once Truman tried for a direct peace talk with Stalin. On each occasion
the military diplomats and bankers in uniform moulding American foreign policy
prevented a meeting. We have the atom bomb. The Russians seem to have a weapon
more terrifying: the peace feeler."

(I.F.Stone, New York Star, Nov 15 1948.)



"The adoption of these concepts... would be equivalent to saying that it was our
objective to overthrow Soviet power. Proceeding from that point, it could be
argued that this is in turn an objective unrealisable by means short of war, and
that we are therefore admitting that our objective with respect to the Soviet
Union is eventual war and the violent overthrow of Soviet power."

(US security document NSC 20/1. Declassified 1975.)



"The United States should plan to defeat the Soviet Union and to do so at a cost
that would not prohibit US recovery. Washington should identify war aims that in
the last resort would contemplate the destruction of Soviet political authority
and the emergence of a post-war world order compatible with Western values."

(Reagan's foreign policy advisers Keith Payne and Colin S. Gray, in "Foreign
Policy" No.39, 1980.)



"That is where we are today. We are preparing for a nuclear war. We are
preparing this strategy with the aim of prevailing over the Soviet Union."

(Former US Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Rear Admiral Eugene
Carroll, Toronto , Canada, April 5 1984.)



"You have survivability of command and control, survivability of industrial
potential, protection of a percentage of your citizens, and you have a
capability that inflicts more damage on the opposition than it can inflict on
you. That's the way you can have a winner..."

(George Bush, asked by the Los Angeles Times in 1980 to explain how a nuclear
war could be won.)



International Herald Tribune, Question: "Do you honestly think, in the final
analysis as a human being, a Christian, a father, you could actually recommend
to the President to push the button and kill millions of people?" Chief of US
National Security Council Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Certainly I think I would and I
certainly think I would without too much hesitation." Question: "Even though
that might make the chance of regeneration of human society that much more
difficult, even impossible?" Brzezinski: "Well, first of all, that really is
baloney... the fact of the matter is that if we used all our nuclear weapons and
the Russians used all of their nuclear weapons, about ten percent of humanity
would be killed... but descriptively and analytically, it's not the end of
humanity..." Question: "Don't you find it emotionally difficult to make that
jump?" Brzezinski: "Not at all. Not in the least. If I did I would feel I
shouldn't be here."

(Chief of US National Security Council Zbignew Brzezinski, Oct 10 1977.)



"We fought World War I in Europe, we fought World War II in Europe, and if you
dummies will let us we will fight World War III in Europe."

(Former strategic planner in the Pentagon US Rear Admiral Gene La Roque.)



"The idea of a "limited" nuclear war is a myth... A nuclear conflict, even if it
starts in Europe, will turn into a general nuclear war within hours, and its
flames will spread to the US too."

(Gene Laroque, Director of the Centre for Defense Information, Washington, Sept
5 1983.)



"In reality, any war in central Europe would rapidly escalate into an all-out
nuclear war."

(British American Security Information Council.)



"The simple fact of the matter is that... it is possible that with nuclear
weapons there can be some use of them... in connection with what is up to that
time a war solely within a European theatre."

(US Defence Secretary Casper Weinberger, Oct 27 1981.)



"Any discussion on the limitation of armaments should be pursued slowly and
carefully with the knowledge constantly in mind that proposals on outlawing
atomic warfare and long-range offensive weapons would greatly limit United
States strength... The United States should realise that Soviet propaganda is
dangerous (especially when American "imperialism" is emphasised) and should
avoid any actions which give an appearance of truth to the Soviet charges."

(US Special Council Report on American relations with the Soviet Union, 1946.)



"It would be advantageous to use tactical nuclear weapons and chemical weapons
at an early stage. Options at this stage should include deep nuclear strikes."

(From US Army Training Manual "Airland Battle 86".)



"General Eisenhower said that he was concerned at the apparently growing opinion
that the United States should never drop the atom bomb first. 'To my mind the
use of the atom bomb would be on this basis: Does it advantage me or does it
not, when I get into a war? If I thought the net gain was on my side, I would
use it instantly.'"

(US Senate Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Joint Committee, March 11 1951.)



"You can have a limited nuclear war. The USA has already fought such a war, in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese not only lived through it but are
flourishing."

(Eugene Rostow, director of US Arms Control and Development Agency.)



"We will never be the first to use nuclear weapons."

(USSR, June 18 1982.)



"For us that is unacceptable."

(White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes, June 18 1982.)



"I would request the use of theatre nuclear weapons at a time when I could not
accomplish my mission conventionally."

(NATO Supreme Commander in Europe, US General Rogers, two days after the Soviet
Union's "no first use" pledge at the UN.)



"The hard truth is, as my recent visits in both the East and the West have made
clear to me, that many peoples of the world have less fear of the Red Army than
they fear that the United States may rashly precipitate atomic warfare against
which their population centres are utterly defenceless."

(John Foster Dulles, Conference of Christians and Jews, May 12 1952.)



"The main reason why a good part of the world does not love us is a double fear
that we will bring about World War III and economic disaster."

(New York Times April 11 1952.)



"The United States must be prepared to equip the soldiers of other nations and
let them send their boys into the holocaust, so that we won't have to send our
boys. That's what the atom bomb means to us."

(Chairman of the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, April
1949.)



"It is cheaper to fight with soldiers of other nations even if we have to equip
them with American arms, and there is much less loss of American life."

(US Senator Taft, Washington, May 19 1951.)



"It takes a man and a gun to fight. The United States is providing the gun,
Europe the man."

(US General Eisenhower, Paris, August 1951.)



"We are proposing dollars to arm men other than our own men. We are contributing
dollars rather than men."

(US General Marshall, August 1 1951.)



"We love you sir... we love your adherence to democracy."

(US Vice President George Bush, toasting the honour of President Marcos, Manila,
Phillipines, 1981.)



8 year-old Marela had first hand experience of Marcos's adherence to democracy:



"They began shooting us, mother put her arm around me. When everything was quiet
I stood up. My mother's head was wounded. My little brother's body was cut in
half. I felt my head, it was all bloody. My mother's brains were all over my
hair."

(Marela, aged 8, Samar Island, Philippines, September 1981.)



"The CIA had just closed down three long-term para-military operations in
S.E.Asia, Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos. They had over a thousand para-military
case officers come flooding back to Washington. .morale was rock-bottom low.
They wanted a covert action; they wanted a para-military encounter. Angola was
convenient... The rationale was that the Soviet Union was trying to take
advantage of the United States' weakness right after the Vietnam war, that
Angola was getting its independence and they (the Soviets) were trying to snap
it up... Our own files disproved that. We moved into Angola first and the
Russians were responding to us... The basic theme was to make it look like a
Russian-Cuban aggression in Angola, and so any kind of story that you could
write and get into the media anywhere that pushed that line, you did. One third
of my staff in this task force was covert action, was propagandist whose
professional career was making up stories and finding ways to get them into the
press."

(Ex CIA officer John Stockwell, Diverse Reports TV programme, Oct 1985.)



"So he (CIA staff propagandist) came up with another story, which was in fact
kept going for weeks, and it was a good story in terms of the CIA's propaganda
interests. He had some Cuban soldiers raping some young Angolan girls. Then
there was a battle and he had that Cuban unit cut off and captured. And he had
the victims identifying their rapists. Then there was a trial and they were
convicted. And then he had them executed by a firing squad of women who had
supposedly been violated, with photographs of young African women with weapons
shooting down the Cubans.

(Ex CIA officer John Stockwell, Diverse Reports TV programme, Oct 1985.)



"Those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out
and make their own... They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so
they'll have something to report on... It's become a government all of its own
and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody."

(Harry Truman, quoted by Merle Miller in "Plain Speaking.")



"Planes of friendly governments are fitted out in the United States with still
and movie cameras and other instruments... Information thus collected is to be
transferred to the America government... Officials say they fear that such
activities may lead to the death of innocent passengers."

(San Francisco Examiner Sept 5 1983.)



"President Reagan and his news handlers have been making, shaping and faking
news. This is an administration that has thought as much about news management,
and practised as much disinformation as any in peacetime history. The milestones
of its progress - yellow rain, the El Salvador White Paper of 1961, the Pope
plot, KAL 007, Sandinista gun running, stretch through the years."

(The Wall Street Journal.)



"We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them
every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be.
They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups."

(CIA officer in South Africa, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, June 11 1990.)



"Foreign propaganda must be employed as an instrument of war - a judicious
mixture of rumour and deception, with truth as bait, to foster disunity and
confusion... In point of fact propaganda is the arrow of initial penetration in
preparing the people of a territory where invasion may be contemplated. It is
the first step; then fifth column work; then militarised raiders or 'commandos',
then finally the invading divisions."

(General William Donovan, Director of OSS (forerunner of CIA),in the early
1940s.)



"The US intelligence service can calmly, either directly or through the obliging
information of other countries, propagate those news items which are best suited
to serve US domestic and foreign policy."

(Ex NATO General Nino Pasti.)



"No employee of the United States shall engage in, or conspire to engage in,
political assassination."

(US President Ford, Presidential Order, 1976.)



"For secret assassinations. the contrived accident is the most effective
technique. The most effective accident. is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard
surface. Drugs can be very effective. Absolute reliability is obtained by
severing the spinal cord in the cervical region."

(US CIA document on overthrowing the Guatemalan Government in 1954.)



"There are no rules to such a game. Hitherto accepted norms of human conduct do
not apply. We must. learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies. It may
become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand
and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy."

(US Government report on CIA activities, 1954.)



"Declassified documents released today state that the US army considered using
Aedes Aegypti mosquitos to spread yellow fever inside the USSR."

(Washington, Oct 29 (P.L.) in Granma, Oct 30 1980.)



"Within the next five or ten years it would probably be possible to make a new
infective micro-organism which would differ from any known desease-causing
organism. Most important, that it might be refractory to the immunological and
therapeutical properties on which we depend on to maintain our relative freedom
from infectious diseases."

(US Appropriation Committee, Washington DC, 1969.)



"By engineering the genetics of individual strains, micro-biologists aim to
produce a single strain containing the most deadly combination of properties."

(W.D.Lawton (Fort Detrick) and R.C.Morris and T.W.Burrows (Porton Down) in the
Journal of Genetic Microbiology.)



"A woman working in the laboratories of Fort Detrick received the Army Medal for
Distinguished Services (the highest American military award to civilians) for
her contribution to the development of a fungus which destroys rice."

(Science Jan 13 1967.)



"Psychological warfare... can be an extremely important weapon in promoting
dissention and defection among the Soviet people, undermining their morale,
creating confusion and disorganisation within the country... A major
undertaking of the United States will be the conduct of an extensive
psychological warfare campaign whose basic objective will be to destroy the
support accorded by the people of the USSR and her satellites to their present
system of government."

(US secret Plan Dropshot



"To the greatest extent tolerated by the Soviet Government, we should distribute
books, magazines, newspapers and movies among the Soviets, beam radio broadcasts
to the USSR... Within the United States, communist penetration should be exposed
and eliminated."

(Report on American Relations with the Soviet Union, Sept 24 1946.)



"Employ incessant counter propaganda and psychological warfare by every possible
method through both government and private agencies such as "Crusade for
Freedom", and aim this against the Red leaders."

(From US President Truman's official papers, Freedom and Union, Dec 1950.)



"...primarily media related activities, including unattributed publications,
forgeries, and subsidation of publications ; political action involved
exploitation of dispossessed persons and defectors, and support to political
parties; paramilitary activities included support to guerillas and sabotage;
economic activities consisted of monetary operations."

(US National Security Council Directive 4/A Dec 14 1947.)



"International military information .influence the emotions, motives, objective
reasoning and ultimately the behaviour of foreign governments, organisations,
groups and individuals."

(US government International Public Information charter, Washington Post, July
28 1999.)



"Frank Wisner, Deputy Director for Operations of the CIA B.M.] built his
propaganda apparatus... propaganda assets throughout the world, from CIA funded
newspapers in English and other languages to local publishers, editors and
reporters who could be counted upon to plant CIA stories from time to time."

(Thomas Powers, in his book "The Man Who Kept the Secrets.")



"A special place in the activity of the Western communications media belongs to
their links with the secret services which not only supply them with falsified
information but also use their services for carrying out their own propaganda
activities. The leading role is played by the CIA which has a worldwide network
of journalist-agents."

(Emil Hoffmann, in his book "Medienfreiheit?" (Is the Mass Media Free?))



"Without superior aggregate military strength, ...a policy of 'containment' -
which is in effect a policy of calculated and gradual coercion - is no more than
a policy of bluff. ...could only be a tactic... to gain public support for the
programme. ...overt psychological warfare... with a view to fomenting and
supporting unrest and revolt in selected and strategic satellite countries.
...emphasis should be given to the essentially defensive character and care
should be taken to minimise, so far as possible, unfavourable domestic and
foreign reactions."

(US National Security Council document NSC 68.)



"a) Get books published or distributed abroad without revealing any US
influence, by covertly subsidising foreign publications or booksellers. b) Get
books published which should not be "contaminated", by any overt tie-in with the
US government, especially if the position of the author is "delicate". c) Get
books published for operational reasons, regardless of commercial viability.
d) Initiate and subsidise indigenous national or international organisations for
book publishing or distributing purposes. e) Stimulate the writing of
politically significant books by unknown foreign authors - either by directly
subsidising the author, if overt contact is feasible, or indirectly, through
literary agents or publishers.

(From Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations With
Respect to Intelligence Activities. US Senate, Book 1, p193)



"Falsehoods are fed to newspapers obedient to the CIA or to capitalist press
giants to be refined and passed on to the reading masses."

(Albert Norden, "Poisoned Weapon against Peace and Socialism.")



"In peace time it is the accepted custom and normal manners of modern government
to conceal all important facts from the public, or to lie about them; in war it
is a political vice which becomes a public necessity."

(US economist Virgil Dustin Jordan, Investment Bankers Association December 10
1940.)



"I am against any interference in the internal affairs of the Latin American
countries. But under certain conditions I consider exceptions possible."

(Henry Kissinger.)



These 'exceptions' seem to occur quite frequently:



In 1916 the US landed troops in the Dominican Republic and occupied till 1924.
And in 1965 the US overthrew a progressive government there. US troops occupied
Cuba in 1898-1902, 1906-1909, and 1917-1923. The 1901 Cuban constitution gave
the US the right of intervention. The US practised this "right" at Playa Giron
(the Bay of Pigs) in 1961. The US still has an illegal base on Cuban soil at
Guantanamo. In 1914 the US landed marines in Haiti and occupied till 1934. In
1954 the US overthrew the progressive government of Arbenz in Guatemala. (See
below.) US troops occupied Nicaragua in 1912-1925, and 1926-1933 when they set
up Somoza's National Guard which murdered Sandino. The US crushed a popular
uprising in Puerto Rico in 1950. The US overthrow of Chile's progressive
Allende government in 1973 is well enough known and documented. And the above
incomplete list was added to by the US invasion and continuing occupation of
Grenada in 1983.



"Intervention is justified as a policy of the United States whenever its
citizens and capital is at stake."

(US Secretary of State Elihu Root, 1908.)



"Intervention is justified wherever it becomes necessary to guarantee the United
States' capital and markets."

(US President Taft, 1912.)



"We do control the destinies of Central America... Until now Central America has
always understood that governments which we recognise and support stay in power,
while those we do not recognise and support fail."

(US Under Secretary of State Robert Olds, 1927.)



"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service as a member of our
country's most agile military force - the Marine corps... And during that time I
spent most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall
Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism... Thus I
helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in
1914. I helped to make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the national city bank
boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central
American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is
long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown
Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the
American sugar interests in 1916. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that
Standard Oil went its way unmolested. I helped make Honduras right for American
fruit companies in 1903.

...Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best
he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. I operated on
three continents."

(Testimony of General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps, to the McCormack
Dickstein Committee. 1935.)



"On April 6, the US notified the United Nations, of which the World Court is the
judicial agency, that the US would not abide by any decisions involving Central
America for two years."

(Financial Times Nov 27 1984.)



"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a nation go communist due to the
irresponsibility of its own people."

(Henry Kissinger, referring to Chile under Allende.)



"That guy may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."

(US President Roosevelt, on Nicaraguan dictator the first Somoza.)



"Now that's the kind of anti-communist we like to see down there."

(US President Nixon, on Nicaraguan dictator the second Somoza, November 15
1983.)



"The United States could never permit another Nicaragua, even if preventing it
meant employing the most reprehensible means."

(Zbigniew Brzezinski, June 1980.)



"Mr President, have you approved of covert activity to destabilise the present
government of Nicaragua?" "Well, no, we're supporting them, the - oh, wait a
minute, I'm sorry, I was thinking of El Salvador. when you said Nicaragua. Here
again, this is something upon which the national security interests, I just - I
will not comment."

(US president Reagan, press conference, Washington, February 13 1983.)



"President Reagan may order a naval blockade of Marxist Nicaragua. His top aides
are urging him to allow US warships to intercept Communist merchant vessels
suspected of ferrying arms to the Central American country. ...Reagan has
approved military action - either by air or by a commando sabotage team - to
destroy the MiGs if the Kremlin does give them to Nicaragua. Russian arms...
being delivered... go far beyond the country's defence needs."

(Daily Mirror Nov 12 1984.)



"We are not doing anything to try and overthrow the Nicaraguan Government...
because that would be violating the law."

(Ronald Reagan, April 18 1985.)



"It makes the water come to my mouth when I think of the State of Cuba as one in
our family."

(US financier, 1895.)



"The real threat of Cuba is that they offer a model to be emulated by people who
are dissatisfied with their lot or who are struggling to change things for the
better."

(US President Carter, April 9 1980.)



"We must shore up our remaining friends in the area and carry out, for once,
some preventative measures... Among these steps will be the establishment of a
Radio Free Cuba, under open US government sponsorship, which will beam objective
information to the Cuban people... If propaganda fails, a war of national
liberation against Castro must be carried out."

(From a Council for Inter-American Security document on Cuba.)



"Four days before the invasion... I became involved in the air action. As
another of the last-minute efforts to mask United States involvement... Three
Cuban airfields were to be bombarded, but in a manner which would make it appear
that defecting Castro pilots had done it, rather than the exile planes from
Central America. It was my assignment during the next twenty-four hours to
stage-manage the incredible charade."

(Ex CIA participant in invasion of Cuba David Phillips.)



"Let us suppose we lose Indochina. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value
from that area would cease coming. We are voting for the cheapest way that we
can to prevent the occurence of something that would be of a most terrible
significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and
ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indochinese
territory and from Southeast Asia."

(US President Eisenhower, justifying US aid to France's war against Vietnam, Aug
4 1953.)



"It [Indochina BM.] is rich in many raw materials such as tin, oil, rubber and
iron ore... This area has great strategic value."

(US Secretary of State Dulles, March 29 1954.)



"One of the world's richest areas is open to the winner of Indo-China. That's
behind the growing US concern... tin, rubber, rice, key strategic raw materials
are what the war is really about. The US sees it as a place to hold - at any
cost."

(US News and World Report, April 4 1954.)



"Geographically, Vietnam stands at the hub of a vast area of the world -
Southeast Asia. He who holds or has influence in Vietnam can affect the future
of the Philippines and Formosa [now Taiwan B.M.] to the East, Thailand and Burma
with their huge rice surpluses to the West, and Malaysia and Indonesia with
their rubber, ore and tin to the South... Vietnam thus does not exist in a
geographical vacuum - from it large store-houses of wealth and population can be
influenced and undermined."

(Former US Ambassador to South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, Boston Sunday Globe,
Feb 28 1965.)



". strategic resources of Southeast Asia and their significance for the global
system that the US was then constructing, incorporating Western Europe and
Japan. It was feared that successful independent development under a radical
nationalist leadership in Vietnam might 'cause the rot to spread', gradually
eroding US dominance in the region and ultimately causing Japan, the largest
domino, to join in a closed system from which the US would be excluded. The idea
that US global planners had national imperialist motives is intolerable to the
doctrinal system, so this topic must be avoided in any history directed to a
popular audience."

(Noam Chomsky, "The Vietnam War In The Age Of Orwell.")



"It is above all the abundance of oil which explains why the American companies
are taking part in the exploitation and why they are indending to prospect
through the huge stretch reaching from South Korea to the Gulf of Thailand. Vast
territories have been allotted to them in the entire Indonesian archipelago, off
the shores of the Malaysian mainland and North of Borneo."

(French newspaper Le Monde, January 8 1971.)



"In 5 years the offshore oil fields of Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, South
Vietnam, and Indonesia will be ready to produce 400 million barrels a day - or
more than is now produced in the entire Western world."

(US geological specialist, Le Monde, January 8 1971.)



"To make the illusion a reality, the CIA undertook a series of operations that
helped turn South Vietnam into a vast police state. The purpose of these
operations was to force the native South Vietnamese to accept the Catholic
mandarin Diem, who had been selected by US policymakers to provide an
alternative to Communism in Vietnam. From 1950 to 1953, .Diem. was living in the
US in Maryknoll seminaries.

Diem arrived in Saigon in mid-1954 and was greeted by Colonel Edward Lansdale,
the CIA's man in South Vietnam. Diem was opposed by virtually all elements of
South Vietnamese society. He had no troops, no police, no government, and no
means of enforcing his rule. What he did have was the complete support of
Colonel Lansdale and all the money, manpower, weapons, training, propaganda, and
political savvy in the CIA's covert action war chest.

To create Diem's government, Lansdale's men. stimulated North Vietnamese
Catholics. to flee south. To help them make up their minds, the teams circulated
leaflets falsely attributed to the Viet Minh telling what was expected of
citizens under the new government. The teams spread horror stories. the CIA
provided free transportation. Nearly a million North Vietnamese were scared and
lured into moving to the South.

Lieutenant Tom Dooley, who operated with the US Navy. A medical doctor.
Dr.Dooley's concocted tales of the View Minh disembowelling 1,000 pregnant
women, beating a naked priest on the testicles with a bamboo club, and jamming
chopsticks in the ears of children to keep them from hearing the word of God,
aroused American citizens to anger and action. Dr.Dooley's reputation remained
unsullied until 1979, when his ties to the CIA were uncovered during a Roman
Catholic sainthood investigation.

The agency's operation worked. It not only convinced the North Vietnamese
Catholics to flee to the South, thereby providing Diem with a source of reliable
political and military cadres, but it also duped the American people into
believing that the flight of the refugees was a condemnation of the Viet Minh by
the majority of Vietnamese.

. The picture drawn to justify US involvement was that the Communist North was
invading the Free World South. The CIA was ordered to sustain that illusion
through propaganda and, through covert operations, to make the illusion a
reality. Its intelligence, with an occasional minor exception, was only a
convenient vehicle to sell the lie to the US bureaucracy and people.
Unfortunately, nearly everyone, including later policy-makers, was deceived by
this big lie."

(CIA Medal of Commendation winner Ralph McGehee, in his book "Deadly Deceits: My
25 Years in the CIA.")



"Beware! The Virgin Mary has fled South. Follow her or be slaughtered by the
barbarian communists."

(Leaflet dropped by US Air Force on Catholic area of Hanoi in 1954.)



"I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indo-Chinese
affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the
fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the
Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader."

(US President Eisenhower, in his memoirs "Mandate For Change.")



"In this region 1,200 families are to be moved voluntarily or forcibly from the
forests controlled by the Viet Cong and resettled in new strategic villages. The
abandoned villages will be burned... Some families had been allowed to carry
away beds, tables and benches before their homes were burned. Others had nothing
but the clothes on their backs."

(New York Times March 29 1962.)



"...teach 'em a damned good lesson. They are all VC or at least helping them -
same difference. You can't convert them, only kill them. Don't lose any sleep
over those dead children - they grow up to be commies too."

(US military advisor in Vietnam, in US Green Beret hero Donald Duncan's "The New
Legions.")



"We should give priority to the prevention of subversive insurgency... Where do
you find symptoms of subversive insurgency? The answer is that they are found
in virtually every emerging country in the world."

(US General Maxwell Taylor.)



"Here we have a going laboratory where we see subversive insurgency, the Ho Chi
Minh doctrine, being applied in all its forms... On the military side... we have
recognised the area as a laboratory. We have teams out there looking at the
equipment requirements of this kind of guerrilla warfare... so even though not
regularly assigned to Vietnam, they are carrying their experience back to their
own organisations."

(US General Maxwell Taylor, to a Congressional Committee, 1963.)



"If France stops fighting in Indo-China and the situation demands it... the
United States will have to send troops to prevent the Communists from taking
over this gateway to Southeast Asia."

(US Vice-President Nixon, New York Times April 18 1954.)



"For the past eleven years the United States has backed a succession of
quasi-dictatorial, sometimes oppressive regimes in Saigon that were despised or
even hated by the Vietnamese people. Most Vietcong guerrilla leaders are not
communists but genuine nationalists who fought with the Vietminh and against the
French colonial forces in the Indo-China war solely to win independence for
Vietnam... Sources in the Liberation Front itself have confirmed that only 10
per cent of their followers are communists."

(New York Times Dec 16 1964.)



"People ask me who my heroes are. I have only one - Hitler. We need four or five
Hitlers in Vietnam."

(US backed Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky.)



"Even Premier Ky told this reporter today that the Communists were closer to the
people's yearnings for social justice and an independent national life than his
own government."

(New York Times Sept 1 1965.)



"Victory for the Vietcong [US name for the South Vietnamese National Liberation
Front B.M.] ...would mean ultimately the destruction of freedom of speech for
all men for all time not only in Asia but in the United States as well."

(Nixon, New York Times, 1965.)



"In Vietnam, only the Communists represent revolution and social change... The
Communist Party is the only truly national organisation that permeates both
North and South Vietnam. The men who lead the party today, Ho Chi Minh and the
other members of the Politburo in Hanoi, directed the struggle for
independence... the Communists... remaining the only Vietnam capable of rallying
millions of their countrymen to sacrifice and hardship in the name of the nation
and the only group not dependent on foreign bayonets for survival."

(New York Times Magazine Oct 9 1966.)



"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from
home to do what Asian boys should be doing for themselves."

(President Johnson, Ohio, October 1964.)



"Boys. I want you to come back with that coonskin on the wall."

(President Johnson, Vietnam, October 1966.)



"We'll win! All we gotta do is grab em by the balls and their hearts and minds
will follow."

(Sign in US Military HQ in Saigon.)



"What the United States is doing in Vietnam is the most significant example of
philanthropy extended by one people to another that we have witnessed in our
times. Primitive peoples with savagery in their hearts have to be helped to
understand the true basis of a civilised existence."

(David Lawrence, editor of US News and World Report, 1966.)



"America's purpose in Vietnam and Indochina remains what it has been - a peace
in which the people of the region can devote themselves to development of their
own societies, a peace in which all the people of S.E. Asia can determine their
own political futures."

(US President Nixon, Washington, June 20 1970.)



"Our one desire - our one determination - is that the people of S.E. Asia be
left in peace to work out their own destinies in their own way."

(US President Johnson, signing the Tonkin Resolution, Aug 10 1964, authorising
the bombing of North Vietnam.)



"We want... only that the people of South Vietnam be allowed to guide their own
country in their own way."

(US President Johnson.)



"I've got on my watch the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you.""

(US President Johnson, Jan 6 1964.)



"Now as to bombing civilians, I would simply say that we're making an effort
that is unprecedented in the history of warfare, that we do not."

(US President Johnson, Nashville, March 15 1967.)



"I regret the necessities of war have compelled us to bomb North Vietnam."

(US President Johnson, Washington, April 17 1965.)



"We must be willing to continue our bombing until we have destroyed every work
of man in North Vietnam."

(US General Curtis E. Le May, USAF, April 1 1967.)



"It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it."

(US Army Major referring to Ben Tre, South Vietnam, A.P. Despatch, Feb 7 1968.)



"We flattened cities in Germany and Japan in World War II. I don't know what's
so sacred about Hanoi. Let world opinion go fly a kite."

(Mendel Rivers.)



"There are also a lot of nice buildings in Haiphong. What their contributions
are to the war effort I don't know, but the desire to bomb a virgin building is
terrific."

(US Commander Henry Urban Jr.)



"You want to know my solution to Vietnam? Tell the Vietnamese they've got to
draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone-Age."

(USAF Chief of Staff General Curtis E. Le May, May 1964.)



"As battle rages we will continue as best we can to help the good people of
South Vietnam enrich the condition of their life."

(President Johnson, Washington, July 28 1965.)



"There was nobody in the village, except women, children and old people. Today
there remains nothing of that area, everything is razed. I've seen my believers
burning amidst napalm. I've seen the bodies of children and women dismembered by
bombs. I've seen all our villages levelled to the ground."

(Father Currien, Vietnam, Match magazine, October 2 1965.)



"Many communities in Vietnam are living a better life because of the
encouragement and help our American troops have given to them. A true missionary
zeal among our troops is commonplace and this is one of the characteristics of
this war. I am constantly impressed by the concern for the lives of others shown
by the men of my command."

(US General Westmorland.)



"As far as the United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam is
concerned, one mishap, one innocent civilian killed, one civilian wounded, or
one dwelling needlessly destroyed - is too many... We will not and cannot be
callous about these people."

(US General Westmorland.)



"Life is plentiful. Life is cheap to those people... You have to realise that an
individual life there isn't as important as an individual life in America."

(US General Westmorland.)



"The American attitude towards war is wholesome."

(US General Westmorland.)



"I don't know any subject on which the American public has been more informed
than Vietnam."

(US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 1966.)



"How our government can lie to its people - it's something you wouldn't think a
democratic government could do."

(USAF Captain Edwin Shank Jr, May 1964.)



"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is and to
tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the
truth. That's what we will do."

(Richard Nixon, in his nomination acceptance speech, Miami, Aug 8 1968.)



"The freedom to know the truth - and let the truth make us free - must never be
compromised or destroyed."

(President Johnson, Chicago, April 1 1968.)



"And if there's any doubt... here at home about our purpose in Vietnam, I never
find it in those letters from Vietnam."

(President Johnson, 1966.)



"Dear Mom and Dad, Today we went on a mission and I'm not very proud of myself,
my friends or my country. We burned every hut in sight... My buddy... threw a
hand grenade into the shelter... After the explosions we found the mother, two
children... and an almost new born baby... The three of us dragged out the
bodies onto the floor of the hut. It was horrible. The children's fragile bodies
were torn apart, literally mutilated. We looked at each other and burned the
hut."

(Letter home from US soldier in Vietnam, 1967.)



"No one has any feeling for the Vietnamese. They're not people. Therefore it
doesn't matter what you do to them."

(Private Sproul of Texas, in Sunday Times Nov 23 1969.)



"They [the US. B.M.] have shown great interest in the new and most effective
poison gas which is being developed in West German laboratories on the basis of
the gas used by IG-Farben at the time of the Second World War. The German
military leaders and a number of industrial firms in the Federal Republic are
helping the Americans... in Vietnam... Thus an arrangement was made to send
several experts from the Farbwerke Hoechst AG to the USA and to let the USA have
the necessary technical data and documents for the production of gas with lethal
effects of the Zyklon B type, which the Nazis had used to a great degree in
their concentration camps... and which the Americans have already begun to use
in South Vietnam... According to recommendations of the American-German
Military Strategical Guidance Centre in Treves - which were approved by the
governments of both countries - the most recent data on the production and
employment of chemical and bacteriological weapons are being exchanged..."

(Eastern World, London July-August 1966.)



"People today are much more willing to accept the humane use of bacteriological
and chemical warfare than most world leaders recognise... The Communists have
claimed we are using chemical warfare and killing many people with these agents.
These chemicals are relatively harmless to warm blooded animals including
humans... I do not think chemical and bacteriological warfare has the horror it
is pictured."

(Brigadier General J. Rothschild, Chemical Officer, US Far East Command, in
"Let's Use Gas Warfare in Vietnam," US journal "Science and Mechanics." April
1966.)



"Of course, it is little short of fantastic that a country facing such domestic
problems as we now face, and one that stands on the brink of a major
international financial humiliation, should be continuing to pour its substance,
to the tune of a full forth of its budget and more than half a million of its
young men, into a military adventure on the other side of the world."

(George Kennan, US News and World Report June 17 1968.)



"We should be proud of our country because the American Division rules of
engagement are based on Judeo-Christian traditions and are moral."

(Chief Chaplain, American Division, Chu Lai, Nov 29 1969.)



"I poured about five clips into the group... we started to gather them up, more
people... we put them into the hootch, and we dropped a hand grenade in there
with them... they had about seventy or seventy-five people all gathered up. So
we threw ours in with them and Lieutenant Calley... started pushing them off...
into the ravine... and just started using automatics on them... men, women,
children... and babies.. it just seemed like it was the natural thing to do at
the time."

(Private Meadlo, American Division, My Lai, Nov 24 1969.)



"Frank, this is your President, and yesterday your boys shat on the American
flag."

(US President Johnson, to CBS News chief after his news crew filmed US Marines
burning Vietnamese villages.)



"I wanted to do something my wife and my mother could be proud of... It was
just another lousy hamlet... mostly old men, women and children, had been
gathered together, the shooting started. So far as I can remember I had killed
three or four. One of the women had a gunshot wound in her neck. It sounded as
though she was crying under water. I figure the blood was gushing into her lungs
or something. She sank to her knees and fell flat on her face. After the
shooting we took three or four ten year old girls from the hamlet along with us
into the jungle... After they had been raped the girls were shot where they were
lying. It was a rather nauseating sight."

(Private Jerry, 26th Infantry Division, Vietnam.)



"All I can say is that he felt he had to be there to prevent the communists from
coming here... We're proud of that boy. We're good Christian folk you see."

(Mother of one of the last two Americans to die in Vietnam.)



"If this doesn't work, it'll be your ass Henry."

(US President Nixon to Henry Kissinger, just before invading Cambodia, April
1970.)



"The temperature in Saigon is 112 degrees and rising." Followed by Bing Crosby
singing I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas.

(Coded US radio message in Vietnam signalling all US personnel and "endangered
Vietnamese" (eg: murderers and collaborators working for the CIA) to quit
Vietnam, April 1975.)



"I, the American Ambassador, am not going to run away in ther middle of the
night. I give you my word."

(US Ambassador Graham Martin, on Saigon television, during the NLF attack, April
1975. A few days later, early in the morning of April 29, he was in his
bullet-proof car on his way to the air base to be evacuated.)



"We should declare war on Vietnam, then we could flatten the whole country by
midday and be back home in time for dinner."

(Ronald Reagan, Time magazine, June 1980.)



"Well, the damage was mutual. We owe them nothing."

(US President Carter, on Vietnam, 1978.)



"United States policy is exactly to squeeze Vietnam. If Vietnam suffers
economic hardships, I think that is just great."

(Roger Sullivan, US National Security Council, April 1980.)



"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.)



"If we'd known about them in the first place, there would never have been a
war."

(US Vietnam veteran, TV Times, 24-30 April 1982.)



"All your strength, America - is in your bombs! - What were your eagles - are
now carriers of death. - What fear turns you to this terror? - To drive people
into the trenches and tunnels, - to poison their land..."

(American poet Thanasis Maskaleris; written during the Vietnam war.)



"Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It
succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster in which
the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe had grown to appalling
dimensions."

(Frantz Fanon.)



"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land: will
never be purged away; but with blood. I had as I now think: vainly flattered
myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done."

(US abolitionist John Brown.)



"One ought to colour the white stripes in the star-spangled banner black and
replace the stars with skulls."

(Mark Twain.)



"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked
fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited
people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. That they design and want.
That they fight and work for. And if unfortunately their revolution 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 M. Shoup, Commandant of the US Marine Corps, 1966.)



"To see freedom sent around the world, this is our mission... It was God's
charge to us."

(US Senator Barry Goldwater.)



"Don't forget, there are two hundred million of us in a world of three billion.
They want what we've got - and we're not going to give it to them!"

(US President Johnson.)



"Before people can do anything they have got to eat. And if you are looking for
a way to get people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their
cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific."

(US Senator Hubert Humphrey, 1957.)



"The US is not a party to any treaty now in force, that prohibits or restricts
the use in warfare of toxic or non-toxic gases, or of bacteriological warfare."

(From: US Army Field Manual "The Law of Land Warfare.")



"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the
lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."

(Lawrence Summers, chief economist for the World Bank, December 1991, in an
internal memo that the Bank should encourage the migration of "dirty industries"
to less developed countries because pollution costs would be lower.)



British school and college history, economics, sociology and business studies
syllabus teaching and books do not contain any of this information.

All the material and information I have presented here is readily available to
historians, writers, journalists, teachers, educators and syllabus publishers.
Although I have spent many hundreds of hours gathering it all together, I did
not have to look very far to find any of it.

When as a trainee history lecturer, it was suggested I take the class on a trip
to the Tower of London and then set them an essay on what life was like for a
soldier in King Charles' Army centuries ago - his living conditions, what he had
in his sandwiches. Very useful knowledge that! A sociology of the past perhaps?
But certainly not history in its most important sense; unless history is to mean
anything old or 'interesting' that you can do in evening classes, like antiques,
flower arranging or basket weaving. When instead I taught real history, learning
from the past in order to change the future, the collective life-experience of
humanity, I was got rid of. The head of the history department complained that
the students had remarked that I made them think; which the head of history had
probably never done in a lifetime of teaching. I ended up washing and cleaning
and emptying human surgical waste in a hospital.

Unless teachers learn to be brave and intellectually honest (difficult when they
have a mortgage and bills to pay), future historical, social and economic
education and popular 'knowledge' will also not refer to the US or British
history and continuing complicity in global plunder, exploitation, domination
and control, wars of aggrandisement and acquisition, causing the deaths and
devastation of the homes and lands of millions of people - the thousands of
children under the age of two who will die tonight through simple lack of clean
water, medicine and education - the untold millions of unnecessary deaths among
the overwhelming majority of humanity on this incredibly rich and abundant and
ultimately sustainable earth.



Quotes from Brian Mitchell. Evolution.



Responses and criticisms welcomed. Reply to my personal e-mail if you prefer. My
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"We Love Freedom." Is this what you mean Mr.Bush? A History of US Freedom and
Democracy In Their Own Words. The Untaught Syllabus. 26.



"The most remarkable thing about the world is that you can understand it."
(Einstein.)


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