Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Quotes
The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
Slavin, Barbara. "Excerpts from USA TODAY's Interview with Iranian Cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani." USA Today, Gannett Co., 31 May 2005.
Wherever there has been a true free press, there have been anti-war activists who are particularly critical of the affect on civilians—collateral damage or otherwise.
Yet we continued to give the government aid.
The School of the Americas has been run by the United States Army and provides training for Latin American Military Officers in Counter-Insurgency Training. The graduates of the school have included some of the worst Latin American killers and torturers (See {41061} for example) who rose to positions of power in their lands. It has also included many leaders who did not ever resort to war crimes and atrocities and also became leaders of their countries. It has been an institution of great controversy since it was discovered that the school at one point taught methods of interrogating insurgents that were tantamount to torture. Defenders of the school claim that but for the school, the military atrocities would have been worse and that it contributed to more human and democratic governments in the Americas.
The culture of Iraq and the Desert tribes made raiding and looting of other villages or travelers or caravans a way of life. The British occupiers were determined to put an end to it and Harris, a young officer, developed the retaliation of bombing the village of the raiders and their warlords. This appears to be the beginning of destroying of houses in the Middle East as a method of retaliation and punishment which would be adopted so well by the Israelis as a humane method and they often quoted Harris saying: “we put them to the maximum amount of inconvenience, without physical hurt, and they soon stopped their raiding and looting.”
This statement was made before the 2012 Syrian Revolution.
There had been a Ukrainian coup where the pro-Russian President of Ukraine was ousted and a new Parliament elected that was more inclined to Europe and the West. Unfortunately, several of the key members of the new regime were neo-Nazis. Ukraine had a nasty past where during WWII over 200.000 Ukrainians joined Hitler’s Nazis and fought against the 800,000 Ukrainians fighting with Russia and the Russians. The Ukrainians even ran the only death concentration camp no operated by Germans. Russia used the presence of some Nazis and the passage of the first Ukranian law of the new Parliament that prohibited the use of Russian in Ukrainian schools to come to the “aid” of the ethnic Russians living near the Russian border at the Eastern end of Ukraine who had seized the governments of several areas and forced the Ukrainian officials out and with the help of Russian “volunteers” with Russian weapons, prevented Ukrainian troops from reasserting control. In the struggle there were deaths on both sides of the conflict and these were the “peaceful civilians” who were “annihilated”.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was an Iranian politician, writer and one of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic who was the fourth President of Iran from 3 August 1989 until 3 August 1997. He was the head of the Assembly of Experts from 2007 until 2011, when he decided not to nominate himself for the post. He was also the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council.
