"I remember a Chechen female sniper. We just tore her apart with two armoured personnel carriers, having tied her ankles with steel cables. There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it"
[source: Maura Reynolds - quoting a Russian soldier, (L.A Times), 17 sept 2000]
"As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: 'My God, what have we done?'"
[source: Capt. Robert Lewis, 19 May 1955 - comments on 10th anniversary of first nuclear bomb]
"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?"
[source: Woodrow Wilson, 1919]
The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world.
