Ben Affleck Quotes
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Affleck, Ben. Interview by David Rensin. Playboy, Playboy Enterprises, Dec. 1999, p. 64.
Clarke and most of the others were convinced that it was Al Quaeda. Clark recommended a retaliation on the Al Quaeda facilities in Afghanistan. However, the weak FBI director had not then yet figured out what military intelligence, and the other National Security operatives already knew. Tenant and his CIA was then an enfeebled organization with which the FBI would not even share intelligence with. Tenant whose record of being wrong hit its acme on Iraq and WMD’s was unwilling to make a judgment. President Clinton was unwilling to make the independent judgment and launch a military attack unless the CIA and FBI would confirm the culprit as he was being accused of using a “wag the dog” scenario.
To depose President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam Conein was one of the first American intelligence operatives in 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 CIA, through Conein, engineered a coup d’etat to remove him from power and replace him with a President more to our liking. Though not planned that way, the South Vietnam military officers who we backed in the coup, then murdered Diem, who although ineffective and unsuccessful, had been a friend and ally of the United States. Even President Kennedy felt badly about the outcome. See {634539}.
Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. His accolades include two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984, 1988). He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993) and various Kevin Smith films, including Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1999). Affleck gained wider recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting (1997), which they also starred in. He then established himself as a leading man in studio films, including the disaster film Armageddon (1998), the war drama Pearl Harbor (2001), and the thrillers The Sum of All Fears and Changing Lanes (both 2002).
