Omar Al-Bashir Quotes

Levy had gone to Bengasi—the center of the revolution—and returned to report to the French President. Levy had supported the President’s political opponent in the previous election. None the less, the President listened to Levy and credits him with the arguments that brought France to take the lead in supporting the rebellion.

This coup has been the biggest trauma for the Iranian people in the last centuries. The blowback from it, has soured relationships between America and Iran for decades. Khamenei personally was traumatized by the coup and publicly refers to it quite frequently. Ironically, reasons and policy logic for the CIA orchestration of the coup are even today murky. The desires of the British may well have been the main reason. “Arrogance” is the term Khamenei uses to describe the British-American alliance and their propensity to try and shape the affairs of other nations.

Fortunately for Mexicans, this has changed but it shows that there may yet be some democratic hope for those African nations who, after independence, followed this same pattern.

This quotation shows what prompted the Texas rebellion against Mexico. Military dictators had taken over the Federal Government of Mexico and Mexico was no longer a free country.

Tito often did not support Soviet policies, but in the case of the Hungarian Revolution he did. He saw Hungary was split into pro and anti Communist factions in the midst of the Cold war. He and the Russians feared that if the Hungarians were allowed to settle their own dispute, there would be a protracted civil war with neither side strong enough to win rapidly. If this happened, the Russians were treaty bound to provide arms and other assistance to the Communist Hungarian government. And if they did so, it was very likely that NATO and the United States would supply similar assistance to the Hungarian Revolutionaries. The result would surely involve enormous loss of Hungarian lives on both sides, and the clear risk of an East West clash that would lead to a World War that might be nuclear. Russian troops and tanks rolled into Hungary and the conflict was over in a few days with very little loss of life. Therefore, even though Hungary lost its independence and freedoms, it was a necessary evil in Tito’s view.

The coup which deposed and then murdered Patrice Lumumba had the help of the American CIA and French Army. Lumumba was a Marxist and Mobutu appeared to be an anti-Communist. The corruption under Lumumba was typical of most African counties but Lumumba himself was an ideologue and but not personally dishonest. Under Mobuto, the Congo—renamed Zaire—became the most corrupt nation on earth, and Mobuto, one of the richest men in the world. Everything he complained of to justify is coup, he himself was guilty of when he consolidated power—moreso than any other 20th century world leader.

Although Father Dudko hated the Soviets, he was very much a Russian nationalist. So he adopted the Communist Regime position on anti-Communist foreigners who would help the anti-Soviet dissidents.

He had just assumed his post 6 days earlier. At this point he did not have enough knowledge to favor or oppose the regime change, but he did realize that the decision was a serious one and there would be no turning back. Diem was a creature of the Central Intelligence Agency. An anti-Communist Christian in a Buddhist county, the CIA engineered his rise to power, created his political party, provided him with cash to bribe other Vietnamese politicians, and paid for all the propaganda so he would “win” the Presidential elections. However, he abused the Buddhists, was thoroughly corrupt and ran a corrupt administration, but worst of all from the American point of view, he was unable to motivate the South Vietnamese population to fight the Communists. He reached the point where he was more of a liability, and the Central Intelligence Agency engineered a coup d’etat to remove him from power and replace him with a President more to our liking. (See {634540}.)

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam Diem was a creature of the Central Intelligence Agency. An anti-Communist Christian in a Buddhist county, the CIA engineered his rise to power, created his political party, provided him with cash to bribe other Vietnamese politicians, and paid for all the propaganda so he would “win” the Presidential elections. However, he abused the Buddhists, was thoroughly corrupt and ran a corrupt administration, but worst of all from the American point of view, he was unable to motivate the South Vietnamese population to fight the Communists. He reached the point where he was more of a liability, and the Central Intelligence Agency engineered a coup d’etat to remove him from power and replace him with a President more to our liking. (See {634540}.) Another reason this quotation is important is that it demonstrates the involvement that the Attorney General had with foreign and defense policy. Normally the Attorney General has nothing to do in these areas and is not even in the loop. But Robert F. Kennedy was also the President’s brother, and his advice was sought by President Kennedy on almost all matters. He was probably the most influential attorney general in American history.