(28.12.2002 - 12:11 p.m.)
"Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here, that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?"
US President, Woodrow Wilson, 1919. "[The Iraqi soldiers were] like ghostly sheep, flushed from a pen... bewildered and terrified, jarred from sleep and fleeing their bunkers under a hell storm of fire. One by one they were cut down by attackers they couldn't see or understand. Some were literally blown to bits by bursts of 30mm exploding cannon... Chief Warrant Officer Brian Walker was looking forward to more action: 'There is nothing that can take them out like an Apache. It will be a duck hunt.'"
Reuters Pool Report, "Apache Pilots in Ground Attack Shooting Gallery." "The reinforced concrete roof was first pierced by a GBU-27 'Bunker Buster' bomb, creating a hole 15ft across. Four minutes later a second stealth bomber threaded another through the opening. The temperature reached over 1000 degrees fahrenheit. Many people on the top floor simply evaporated. The shelter's capacity was 1200 and it had been full every night of the war."
Grant Wakerfield, from the liner notes to the Hidden Art Recordings music album, "The Fire This Time." "Next morning we went to see what we had done... there were bodies all over the place... I remember at one point looking down at the car track and I was up to my ankles in blood. The tracks were filled with blood and there were very white faced men going around saying, 'Jesus, did we really do this?'"
Journalist Tony Clifton of Newsweek, quoted in "Late Show", BBC Television, 8th June 1991. "Iraqis will be made to pay the price whilst Saddam Hussein is in power."
Robert Gates, Former US Deputy National Security Advisor, 9th May 1991. "We do not agree with those nations who argue that if Iraq complies with its' obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction, sanctions should be lifted... We are the greatest country in the world... If we have to use force it is because we are America! We are the indespensible nation! We stand tall and we see further into the future."
Former US Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright, addressing a symposium on Iraq at Georgetown University, USA, 26th March 1997. "The process of creating and entrenching highly selective, re-shaped or completely fabricated memories of the past is what we call 'indoctrination' or 'propaganda' when it is conducted by official enemies, and 'education', 'moral instruction' or 'character building' when we do it ourselves. It is a valuable mechanism of control, since it effectively blocks any understanding of what is happening in the world. One crucial goal of successful education is to deflect attention elsewhere... to where our problems allegedly lie, and away from our institutions and their systematic functioning and behaviour, the real source of a great deal of the violence and suffering in the world. It is crucially important to prevent understanding and divert attention from the sources of our own conduct, so that elite groups can act without popular constraints to achieve their goals - which are called 'The National Interest.'"
Professor Noam Chomsky.
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