- "If the war does not significantly change the world's political map, the U.S. will not achieve its aim" (Donald Rumsfeld on the Global War On Terror)
- "I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz [when] one of the generals called me in..... [He said] "They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” ..... So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” ...... he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” -- meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office -- “today...... This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” (US General Wesley Clark)
- "It was at the July meeting.... [Ambassador] Tom Simons suggested that Afghanistan could face an open-ended military operation..... if it didn't accede to U.S. demands. "Ambassador Simons stated that if the Taliban wouldn't agree with the plan [relating to the proposed strategic Trans-Afghanistan pipeline], and if Pakistan was unable to persuade them, the United States might use an overt action against Afghanistan..... The words used by Simons were "a military operation".... Another participant reportedly said the Taliban's choice was clear: either accept a "carpet of gold" riches from the pipeline or "a carpet of bombs," meaning a military strike.... [Ambassador Tom Simons] confirms that only a few weeks before Sept. 11, American diplomats warned of military action against Afghanistan if its leaders did not meet U.S. economic and political demands." (Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline, A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11., 05/06/2002)
- "We think the price is worth it." (Madeleine Albright in a 1996 interview regarding the death of over 500 000 Iraqi children due to sanctions).
- “You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you. We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.” (John Bolton threatening Jose Bustani [then OPCW Director General), if he didn’t resign from his position), etc.....
The criminality of successive US governments is well documented. A nation that shows disregard for international law, engages in successive wars of aggression, is subjecting numerous nations to economic strangulation (through 'sanctions', the resultant deaths conforming to genocide in the case of Iraq), is involved in the theft of foreign resources (currently in Syria) and the seizure of resources from commercial shipping (accurately described by Iran and Venezuela as piracy), etc., can easily be described as a rogue nation.
PS. See how the evil Americans threatened others to do their biddings or be killed or destroyed. They have no qualms about killing Muslims and Arabs. And they are trying to con the world that they are fighting for the rights of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Muslims that they have been killing and destroying all over the world. The Americans are protectors of Muslims and Arabs? What are they doing in the Middle East, in Syria, Libya, Iraq, in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Morocco etc etc