In article <3f9dccc5$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, psilojoe says...

That is beautiful, truly food for thought, shame it'll never happen though,
Bush will cheat the next election like he cheated the last one, the world is
doomed, whats the fucking point?

Never give up The Faith!!

Myth and denial in the war on terrorism ... excerpt by William Blum 

As I�ve written elsewhere: If I were the president, I could stop terrorist
attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first
apologize�very publicly and very sincerely�to all the widows and orphans, the
impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of
American imperialism.

Then I would announce that America�s global military interventions have come to
an end.
I would then inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but
.. a foreign country.

Then I would reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to
pay reparations to the victims, and repair the damage from the many American
bombings, invasions, and sanctions. There would be enough money. One year of our
military budget is equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since
Jesus Christ was born. That�s one year. That�s what I�d do on my first three
days in the White House.

On the fourth day, I�d probably be assassinated. #
-- 

William Blum is a former State Department official. He is the author of three
books�KILLING HOPE: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II,
ROGUE STATE: a guide to the World�s Only Super Power, and WEST-BLOC DISSIDENT: a
Cold War Political Memoir. A signed and personalized copy of each book can be
purchased from YellowTimes.org�s gifts section.


The Weapons Of American Terrorism From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only
Superpower  By William Blum

The Weapons of American State Terrorism -
Assassination
Chemical & Biological Weapons
Cluster Bombs
Depleted Uranium
Domestic Oppression
Fuel-Air Bombs
Nuclear Bombs
Surveillance
Torture

ASSASSINATION:

In 1975, a US Navy psychologist, Lt. Com. Thomas Narut, revealed that his naval
work included establishing how to induce servicemen who may not be naturally
inclined to kill, to do so under certain conditions. He referred to these men
using the words "hitmen" and "assassin". Narut added that convicted murderers as
well had been released from military prisons to become assassins. The training
of the carefully-selected recruits ranged from dehumanization of the enemy, to
acclimating them emotionally through special films showing people being killed
and injured in violent ways.

The disclosure by Narut was pure happenstance. We can only speculate about what
programs are taking place or being planned today in that five-sided building in
Virginia.

Following is a list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or
planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the
Second World War.

1949 - Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s - CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany
to be "put out of the way" in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s - Zhou Enlai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1963 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 - Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1950s (mid) - Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 - Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959 - Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 - Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950-70s - Jose Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 - Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo
1961 - Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts and plots on his life
1960s - Raul Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 - Francisco Caamano, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 - Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970-1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 - Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 - General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 - General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 - Moammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon
his life
1982 - Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 - Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 - Miguel d'Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 - The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate, Nicaragua
1985 - Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader
1991-2000 - Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1998-2000 - Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999-2000 - Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia

The CIA: Corporation for Instruction in Assassination

"Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world;
particularly the Third World since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the
elite-owned media." Ralph McGehee--former CIA analyst.  CIABASE; The Crisis of
Democracy also author of Deadly Deceits

From Derailing Democracy: the America the Media Don't Want You to See by David
McGowan:
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"No assassination instruction should ever be written or recorded... The simplest
local tools are often the most efficient means of assassination... anything
hard, heavy and handy will suffice... The most efficient accident...is a fall of
75 feet or more onto a hard surface... Falls before trains and subway cars are
usually effective, but require exact timing... assassinations can seldom be
employed with a clear conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not
attempt it."  --  "A Study of Assassination" CIA training manual circa 1954
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"It is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as
court judges, mesta judges, police and state security officials, CDS chiefs,
etc. For psychological purposes it is necessary to take extreme precautions...
The mission to replace the individual should be followed by extensive
explanation within the population affected of the reason why it was necessary
for the good of the people." --  "Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare"
A Contra-era CIA Training Manual
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Related sites:
The US Army School of Assassins  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/soa/
Exposes the dirty deeds of the U.S. Army School of "the Americas"  (Assassins)
throughout Latin America. Special sections on Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil,
Bolivia, Peru, Grenada, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

School of the Americas Watch  http://www.soaw.org/index.html

The United States Army "School of the Americas," in Fort Benning, Georgia,
teaches its students how to torture human beings.  Graduates of the U.S. Army
School of the Americas have been responsible for some of the worst human rights
abuses in Latin America.  Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious
dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and
Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez
of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia.

Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include
the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the torture of countless people
throughout Central and South America and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 human
beings.

Bibliography
*The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine

"One of the best books ever written on the secret history of the Vietnam war.
Valentine presents an unsparing account of the Phoenix Program, the CIA/US Army
'pacification' program in Vietnam that practiced plunder, torture and widespread
assassination."

*Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
*Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See by David
McGowan

http://www.geocities.com/americanterrorism/WarAtHome.html
*War At Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It
by Brian Glick

*Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII by William Blum
*Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy by Javier Giraldo
* Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by
Michael Parenti
* The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee
* To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti, Ph.D.
* The Continuing Terror Against Libya by Fan Yew Teng
* The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race by Michael
Parenti, Ph.D.
* The Culture of Terrorism by Noam Chomsky
* Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA by Ralph W. McGehee
* NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition by Ramsey Clark, Sean Gervasi, Sara
Flounders, Thomas Deichmann, Gary Wilson, Richard Becker and Nadja Tesich
*  Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media by Michael Parenti, Ph.D.
*  War, Lies & Videotape: How media monopoly stifles truth edited by Lenora
Foerstel; multiple authors

http://www.geocities.com/americanterrorism/Amerikan_Terrorism.html