(2)
"There was Haiti in 1915, where United States Marines brought `order' by shooting 2,000 Haitians..." Howard Zinn - ON WAR
(3)
"China is ... half encircled by American military bases in Korea, Japan, the Philippine, Formosa, Okinawa, and Thailand -- with about 250,000 United States soldiers, sailors, and airmen at those bases." Howard Zinn - ON WAR
(4)
"...one of the guiding rules for an Air Force in possession of large quantities of bombs is: `Get rid of them -- anywhere' " Howard Zinn, veteran of the Air Force - ON WAR
(4a) "To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail". Mark Twain
(5)
"Most men everywhere agree they want to end war, imperialism, racism, poverty, disease and tyranny. What they disagree about is whether these expectations can be fulfilled within the old frameworks of nationalism, representative government and the profit system."
Howard Zinn - ON HISTORY
(6)
"A Chicago newspaper, asked by a reader if it were true that for every enemy soldier it killed in Vietnam the United States was killing six civilians, replied that this was not true; we were killing only four civilians for every soldier." [Howard Zinn - On War]
(NB: Most books estimate that we killed somewhere up to 1.5 million Vietnamese soldiers during the war. Multiplied by 4 = about 6,000,000 people killed, a figure no US publication will dare print.
My years of research conclude that from 9/1945 - when we armed and transported and paid the French colonial troops from Marseilles to re-invade out of Saigon, and, with that, the first stage of the American invasion of Indochina began - until we quietly trickled out of our last Black Ops (covert) against Vietnam and Cambodia during the mid to late 1980s: an absolute minimum of 6,000,000 Indochinese people were murdered - - the vast majority being civilians.
Still, America, leading the West, can scream about the great 'evil' of Terrorism? richard manning)
(7)
".....a country's foreign policy reflects the interests of those who control the country's political system. In a country where wealth is distributed in a highly inequitable manner, where it takes enormous amounts of money to wage a political campaign, where the mass media are owned and controlled by the well-to-do, and where crucial investment decisions are in the hands of the rich, the political system will be controlled by either those who own great wealth or those who serve their interests." Steven Rosskamm Shalom - IMPERIAL ALIBIS
(8)
"Racism was one of the key founding principles of the United States. The Puritans exterminated Pequot Indians, hoping, in the Puritans' words, to `cut off the Remembrance of them from the earth.'
To George Washington, Indians and wolves were both `beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.' In the Declaration of Independence, one of the indictments against King George was that he had inflicted on the colonists `the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an indistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions' -- a rather accurate characterization of the rules of warfare employed against the Native Americans. Repeatedly, in the Indian wars that raged across the continent, U.S. soldiers would proclaim as they massacred infants, `Kill the nits, and you'll have no lice.'
`We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux,' wrote General Sherman in 1866, `even to their extermination, men women and children.'
To Theodore Roosevelt, the `most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman.' but no matter, because it was `idle to apply to savages the rules of international morality which obtain between stable and cultured communities...'
Not that Roosevelt went `…so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.' "
"Imperial Alibis" - Stephen Shalom - South End Press
(9)
"Throughout its history, the agency [CIA] has resorted to every conceivable crime and machination to make the world safe for the Fortune 500, using false propaganda, economic warfare, bribery, rigged elections, sabotage, demolition, theft, collusion with organized crime, narcotics trafficking, death squads, terror bombings, torture, massacres, and wars of attrition." Michael Parenti, in "HISTORY AS MYSTERY"
(10)
Racist Mass Murder of Arab People: The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death",
by Joyce Chediac - See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtm
Copyright © 1992 by The Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal - This extremely important information is distributed in an effort to advance knowledge and awareness of war crimes carried out in our name. You are encouraged to follow the above link. This constitutes a `fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of | the US Copyright Law.
…being unconcerned with findings of War Crime guilt despoiling America's reputation, or maybe more seriously even spoiling American somnambulism, high patriotism by Daddy Bush followed up with,
"I will never apologize for the United States of America -- I don't care what the facts are." President George Bush, Sr.
It would be extremely difficult to find a better one-sentence summary to understand why America has lost so much world respect after W.W. II. Such hubris proves disdain for other peoples and a prideful arrogance in your own presumed superiority! Also direct causes, these, of the acknowledged degradation of our national ethos suffered into "The American Century". richard manning
(11)
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want
to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in
one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England,
nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country
who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it
is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or
no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hitler's Homeland Defense #2 Man, Hermann Goering
(12)
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame
upon the nation that is attacked,
and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,
and will diligently study them,
and refuse to examine any refutations of them;
and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just,
and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process
of grotesque self-deception."
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, 1916, Ch.9
(13)
"As we were leaving, my Pakistani friend asked the school's rector a question he had posed to me, which I couldn't answer: 'How come Americans are so good at selling Coke and McDonald's to people all over the world, but can't sell their policies?'
'Because their policies are poisonous and their Coke is sweet,' said Moulana Samiul Haq". Thomas Friedman, reporting honestly, "In Pakistan, It's Jihad 101", NY Times, 13 Nov.'01
Richard's Comment:
THERE ARE MANY, MANY MORE QUOTES and TRAGIC EXAMPLES TO SUPPORT THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF VAST, CONSISTENT AND NEARLY CONTINUOUS AGGRESSION BY WESTERN SOCIETIES, ALMOST ALWAYS CHRISTIAN, AGAINST THE "OTHER". BUT, NOW, AFTER THE FIRST MAJOR ACT OF REVENGE BY ONE OF THOSE "OTHERS" AGAINST THE MAINLAND OF A WESTERN POWER (THE WTC TRAGEDY), MAYBE WE MIGHT BEST AT THIS POINT STOP TO ASK, WITH SINCERE HONESTY, WHY? - - - then, for the children's sake, ask,
WILL IT NEVER END?:
NO, THIS IS NOT THE END, MY FRIEND - for as the enlightened Jim Morrison and Bob Marley well understood, and sadly sang about, there is so much more, too much more, ignorance our White race, within Abrahamic tribal culture, has to first perceive and then understand, before their violence ENDS.
For now, but not for as long as some empires, historically self-righteous America is the "big guy" on the block; while its people, the majority consumer-sedated, or simply UNCARING, fearfully accept to be continually propagandized, never asking that supremely important question, WHY?.
….as an hypnotic patriotism covers-up the greed their own 'evil' bosses continue in their name:
- consuming, plopped in couches supported on the heads of suffocating 3rd World feudal workers,
- making US toys and trinkets, while barely feeding families, in polluted education, water, health care,
- bloated consumers, morally somnambulant, consuming the earth's stolen resources,
- stolen resources processed in feudalism, behind Western developed fearful Doors of Perception.
HOW MUCH MORE violence will the West, still now after 509 years, go on to perpetrate against all the 'others'? Especially as led since the American Century began macromanaging Fortune 500 GREED: informed by spooks, supported by military violence and managed by the unethical likes of:
- Hypnotized Baby Bush,
- Misogynist Liar Clinton,
- Sold-out Daddy Bush,
- Ignorant Stars and Star War-gazing Reagan,
- Christian Hypocrite President Carter,
- Simply Sweet Smiling Gutless Ford,
- Machiavellian Lying Nixon and Kissenger,
- Duplicity Idealistic Kennedy,
- Heroically Golfing Eisenhower,
- Haberdashery Thinking Truman,
- et. al., until ?????????????????
richard manning
Veterans Day, 12 Nov. 2001
© r. manning
Antibes, France