Self Incrimination from the Powers That Be

On the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan
"After nine years of international involvement it has become painfully clear that the price we have to pay is much higher than expected—especially regarding the international and Afghan soldiers killed. It cannot be disputed that the international community underestimated the size of this challenge in the beginning."

--NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in a commentary in the German newspaper Der Spiegel on Monday (via Democracy Now)


On Israel's Occupation of Palestine
"The main thing, first of all, is to hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne....

I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in the way."

--Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2001, before he was PM, speaking to Israeli settlers in the West Bank, unaware he was being recorded (via Democracy Now)


No more words needed.