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Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April, 1997, counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn

“If they do it, it's terrorism, if we do it, it's fighting for freedom.” -- a U.S. Ambassador in Central America in the 1980s, asked to explain how such U.S. actions as the mining of Nicaragua's harbors and bombing of airports differed from the acts of terrorism that the U.S. condemned around the world

“I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas job function email list against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good...and it would spread a lively terror....” -- Winston Churchill commenting on the British use of poison gas against the Iraqis after World War I

“[The Third World War] is a war that has been fought by the United States against the Third World. It might also be called the Forty-Year War, like the Thirty-Year and when the CIA was founded in 1947 and continues today. As wars go, it has been the second or third most destructive of human life in all of history, after World War I and World War II.” -- John Stockwell, former CIA official and author

“I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” -- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, about Chile prior to the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of socialist President Salvadore Allende in 1973