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| US diplomat and deputy director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism |
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| Americans and British were looking for a way to get Nazis to stop fighting due to many casualties. They chose to bomb the civilian town of Dresden, Germany. British dropped 750,00 fire bombs nto it causing a massive fire storm. |
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Tokyo Fire Bombings
March 9 -10,1945 |
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| more people killed immediatly than any one of the atomic boms. 300 B-49's dropped 500,000 fire bombs. Killed 100,000 people in a 6 hour period. |
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| General that headed the bombings in Germany and Japan.Was opposed to dropping the Atomic Bomb. |
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Sabra and Shatilla
Sept. 16 -18, 1982 |
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| refugess in lebanon were massacred at refugee camp. Isreal was attacking Lebanon. The camps were full of Palastines. Christian Lebanese came in to kill the Palestines.1,700 dead. |
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| Israeli who entered a mosque and gunned down Palestines inside. 29 dead. |
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| a bomb with alot of little bombs inside of it called bombletts. They explode before they hit the ground. |
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| bombed the city of Oaklahoma in 1995. Was executed for killing 168 people. Deadliest attack on US soil before 9/11. Terry Nicols was accomplice. |
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British plan to overthrow Mossadegh to get control of oil again. Mossadegh found out and threw all the British out of Iran.
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| the first Iranian Prime Minister. Was very popular. Helped to take over the oil control from the British. Time magazine Man of The Year 1952. |
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| lawyer who represented international business. Became seretary of state in US. Extremely anti- communist. |
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| Grandson to Teddy Roosevelt. Was head of CIA operations in the middle east. |
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| US general and friend of the Shah of Iran. Convinces the Shah to take over Mossadegh's place after he is overthrown. |
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| Supreme court justice who summed up the US involvement between the Britsih and Mossadegh. |
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| Put together and led the Delta Force which conducted Operation Eagle Claw mission that was unsuccessful. |
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| US marine who personally confronted Saddam Hussien. Was a weapons inspector who said that they did find WMD's and destroyed them back in 1991. He felt that Iraq had no more and for this he was obstracized. Convinces Iraqi Parliment in 2002 to let the inspecters back in to look. |
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| Radical leader of Iran. Organized a hostage situation with students holding US embassy hostage for 14 months. |
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| pushed the idea that Iraq had WMD's |
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| Meeting of top officials of British govt. that reported that a war with Iraq would be inevitable. |
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| What do the Downing Street Memos tell us? |
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- intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy
- US had no interest asking the UN
- Few in Washington were interested in the aftermath of the war
- Justification for the war was terroeism and WMD's
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| "War is about killing and maiming people.It is dishonest to pretend its not." |
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| Maher Abdallah Ahmad, al-jazzera correpsondent |
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| "Allied cheifs have made the long awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombings of German population centers as a ruthless expeindient of hastenings Hitlers doom" |
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| Associated Press following Dresden bombing, Feb. 1945 |
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| " You've got to kill people and once you've killed enough, they stop fighting" |
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| " I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal" |
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| " All criminal acts directed against a state and intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of paticular persons or groups of persons or the general public" |
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League of Nations definition of terrorism, 1937
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| " For us here there are two sorts of people in te world.There are those that are Christian and upport free enterprise, and theres everybody else" |
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| "I owe my throne to God,my people, my army and you" |
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| Mohammad Reza Shah to President Roosevelt |
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| "If you are really thinking about war and you want us Brits to be a player,we cannot unless you go to the UN" |
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| British foreign secretary Jack Straw |
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| "Simply stated there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has WMD, there is no doubt that he is amassing them against us and our friends" |
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| Vice President Dick Cheney,August 26,2002 |
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| " You can't rollout a new product in August" |
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| Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card before the Bush Administration began a campaign promoting war with Iraq in Sept. 2002 |
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| " Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play" |
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| " We know where they are" |
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| Donald Rumsfeld,talking about Iraq's so called WMD's |
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| " For burecartic reasons we settled on one issue, WMD's,because it was one reason everyone could agree on" |
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| former Bush Defense Department official Paul Wolfowitz, talking about how war with Iraq could be promoted |
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| CIA leader for Bill Clintons and Bushes administration.Recieved the Medal of Freedom |
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| the highest reward a civilian can get. |
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| Bush appointed him to run Iraq. Got a MOF. Came up with the idea of dissolving the Iraqi army and police after we took over them. |
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| Commander who led the frist set of invasions against Iraq.Let loting commence in Iraq. Got MOF. |
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| using media manipulation or humanitarian aid to persude people. |
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| How do you achieve Information Dominance? |
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- build up and protect friendly information
- degrade the info from your adversary or make sure they dont ven get theirs out.
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| " The first causality,when war comes, its truth." |
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| " I think the President would mislead the American people" |
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| Congressman Jim Mc Dermott,Sept. 2002 during trip to Baghdad |
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| " Some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen, loyal to a creed that they know they'll leave fallen comrade" |
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| Gen. Vincent Brooks, talking about the raid to save Pvt. Lynch |
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| " The administration used Pat. They tried to attach temselves t his virtue and then they wiped their feet with him" |
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| Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman |
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| " The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absoulutely heartbeaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting" |
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| Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman |
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| "Question authority,all authority, especially when they take us to war" |
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| "These guys are a disgrace.Look,everybody knoes its 101,politics 101,that you don't go to an adversary country,an enemy country,and badmouth the US,its policies and the president of the United States" |
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| Mara Liasson,NPR corespondent,talking about congressman Jim McDermott |
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| " To criticize one's country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment.It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than its doing.It is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing" |
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| Sen. J. William Fulbright |
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| " They asked us to come up with a definition of terrorism that could be used throughout the government.We produced 6, and in each and every case,they were rejected,because careful reading would indicate that our own country had been involved in some of these activities." |
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| Edward Peck,longtime US diplomat and deputy director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism |
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| "Any act intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civillians or non combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an organization to do or abstain from any act" |
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| deifinition of terrorism: UN Panel,2004 |
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| " The calculated use of unlawful violence to inculcate fear,intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in pursuit of goals that are generally political,religious or ideological" |
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| definition of terrorism: US Dept. of Defense |
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| " The most importnt thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right.He told us again and again in 2002 and early 2003.As President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair prepared us for war in Iraq that there were no weapons there.The Iraqi WMD's, the main sales of war ,did not exist" |
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| " It occured to me that the Iraqis would be in greater difficulty....if there truly were no WMD, of which they could yield possession" |
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| Former UN cheif weapons inspector Hans Blix in the days before the US launched invasion of Iraq in March 2003 |
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