Remarkable Similarities:
Britain's Subserviance To The US and The "Vietnamisation" of Iraq".
In Their Own Words - The Untaught Syllabus. 27.


"America has embarked on a career of imperialism in world affairs... Even though
by our aid England should emerge from this struggle without defeat, she will be
so impoverished economically and crippled in prestige that it is improbable that
she will be able to resume or maintain the dominant position in world affairs.
At best, England will become a junior partner in a new Anglo-Saxon imperialism
in which the economic resources and the military and naval strength of the
United States will be the centre of gravity."

(President of the US National Industrial Conference Board Virgil Jordan, to the
Annual Convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, Hollywood,
Dec 10 1940.)



"My dear Americans, we may be short of dollars, but we are not short of will...
We won't let you down. Standards of life may go back. We may have to say to our
miners and to our steel workers: "We can't give you all we hoped for. We can't
give you the houses we want you to live in. We can't give you the amenities we
desire to give you." But we won't fail."

(British Labour Foreign Secretary Bevin to the American Legion, Savoy Hotel,
London, Sept 10 1947.)



"Mr. Bevin went to New York, determined to prevent the precipitate rearmament of
Germany... He failed... Faced with an American ultimatum... he toed the line."

(New Statesman and Nation, Dec 2 1950.)



"We British must recognise that American policy must prevail, if there is an
honest difference of opinion between us as to what to do next in the world
struggle. He who pays the piper calls the tune."

(Labour MP Commander King-Hall, National Newsletter, June 28 1951.)



"Behind the conflict in the Near East is OIL. Britain owns rich wells in Iraq .
Socialists . [must] . condemn the Oil Imperialism of Britain and America and
demand the pooling of all the oil resources of the world according to the needs
of the peoples."

(British Lord Fenner Brockway, 1947.)



"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."

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



"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...
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.)



"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.)



"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.)



"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 Caspar Weinberger, April 28 1981.)



"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.)



"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.)



"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 is rich in many raw materials such as tin, oil, rubber and iron ore... This
area has great strategic value... It has major naval and air bases."

(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.)



"Vietnam stands at the hub of a vast area of the world... 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, Feb 28 1965.)



"It is above all the abundance of oil which explains why the American companies
are. intending 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. 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.)



"The so-called Vietnamisation of the war, that is, the plan to have Vietnamese
kill Vietnamese in Washington's interests, and the extension of the aggression
to Cambodia and Laos - non of this will get the USA out of the bog of its dirty
war in Indochina or wash away the shame heaped upon that country by those who
started and are continuing the aggression."

(Leonid Brezhnev, to 24th Congress of the CPSU.)



"To make the illusion a reality, the CIA undertook a series of operations that
helped turn South Vietnam into a vast police state. .[Diem BM.] had been
selected by US policymakers to provide an alternative .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... The CIA was ordered to sustain that illusion through propaganda and,
through covert operations, to make the illusion a reality. .a convenient vehicle
to sell the lie to the US bureaucracy and people."

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



The so-called Vietnamisation of the war, that is, the plan to have Vietnamese
kill Vietnamese in Washington's interests. non of this will get the USA out of
the bog of its dirty war in Indochina or wash away the shame heaped upon that
country by those who started and are continuing the aggression."

(Leonid Brezhnev.)



"I cannot truly sympathise with Americans who help promote a fascist state and
then get angry when it doesn't act like a democracy."

(CIA chief in Vietnam Colonel Edward Lansdale.)



"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.)



"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.)



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

(US President Johnson.)



"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... 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.)



"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.)



"Foreign eye-witnesses that morning saw blood flow, saw bound men beaten. They
saw French colonial culture being restored to Saigon."

(American reporter Harold Isaacs "Independence for Vietnam?")



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

(US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 1966.)



"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.)



"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.)



"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.)



"The United States will not continue its military involvement or intervene in
any way in the internal affairs of South Vietnam."

(The Paris Agreement, January 27 1973.)



"Well folks, that just about wraps up Vietnam. So let's all have a party and
get outta here."

(Admiral of the US command fleet on the USS Blue Ridge, to evacuated US military
and Embassy staff and their "endangered" Vietnamese dependents, May 1 1975



"In the final analysis, it's their war."

(Kennedy, Sept 2 1963.)



"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.)





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.



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