outbreak. let's take over. american empire als wille ... - Rainer Rilling

America has never been an Empire
G. W. Bush, 1999
America has no empire to extend
or utopia to establish.
G. W. Bush, 2002.
We have no territorial ambitions, we donʹt seek an empire.
G. W. Bush, 2002
We donʹt seek empires,
weʹre not imperialistic. We never have been.
D. Rumsfeld, 28.4.2003
Ich bitte Sie, die Vereinigten Staaten
sind doch kein Imperium.
J. Fischer, 2003
Imperialism is having one heck of a comeback
Time v.5.5.2003
First we take Baghdad , then we take Beijing
Leonard Cohen in der Fassung von J. Politex, 2003
So, call it as you prefer, ladies and gentlemen, but if it looks like an empire,
and acts like an empire, and increasingly quacks like an empire, well, perhaps you
know what it is?
Paul Kennedy 1.4.2003
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