1953: US overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iraq. US Installs Shah as dictator.
1954: US overthrows democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 2,00,000 civilians killed.
1963: US back assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem
1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people is Southern Asia
September 11, 1973: US stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected President Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.
1977: US back military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans killed.
1980’s: US trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives then $3 billion.
1981: Reagan administration trains and funds “contras”. 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982: US provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. US invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian causalities.
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from US.
1991: US enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
1998: Clinton bombs “weapons factory” in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. UN estimates 5,00,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
2000-01: US gives Taliban ruled Afghanistan $245 million in “aid”.
September 11, 2001: Osama Bin Laden uses his expert CIA training and funding to murder 3,000 people at World Trade Centre
2001-Present: US occupy Afghanistan. Over 30,000 dead and counting…
2003-Present: US occupy Iraq. Over 60,000 dead and counting…
If we elect Ron Paul we can turn this trend around! It is about time to make a change.
I agree, Ron Paul is Americas Last Hope. Stop the madness. Elect the Champion of the Constitution. Abolish the IRS too!
I believe it would do you well to research the word democide. This is a term coined by a professor emeritus of Univ. of HI. He has a website that lists all the killing that has gone on sponsored and sanctioned by Governments of the world. There needs to be some balance to what you are saying because while yes I will agree the position of the United States in the world as a superpower makes us suspect, it does not mean we are the bad guys. Yes, as a government the USA has been responsible for some civilian deaths, May God help us not to do this. My contention is that in over 99% of the cases this has not been intentional. It has been a result of collateral damage, faulty intelligence, and or errors in Judgement. While in the case of other governments, such as Pol-Pot in Cambodia, Moa in China, Stalin in Russia, Amin in Uganda, Hussein in Iraq, etc. etc. the killing has been both massive and intentional. So I would have to clearly disagree with what you seem to be implying. NO! America does not seek to kill innocent people, and thus we should not be classified under the heading of “Bully Governments” as you seem to imply.
@Mr. Jay Thomas
True. Even I didnt mean to say that all Americans are evil. But its wrong to say that 99% of the cases has been intentional. The coups by CIA backed by govt was intentional, so was Afghanisthan and Iraq. In the case of Afghanisthan, the US govt itself provides arms to taliban to kill innocent people and later US attacks Afghanisthan telling that Osama has attacked America. Has he ever been caught? No. Coz catching him was never in the list, all they wanted was oil.
What about Iraq? Is it necessery to kill a lakh innocents and capture oil fields to kill just one person. When the govt has assasinated even the president of other coutries, was Saddam so difficult to kill. Whats going on there now even after he is killed? Did US leave Iraq? Not unitil they keep scaring you people of a possible terrorist attack and drain off all the oil.
Let me repeat, Americans are not evil. The govt has made you blind and afriad so that you wount say a word against what your govt does. US is doing what Germany did during the World War, only difference is its in a so called ‘democratic’ way.
Even you do agree of “Bully Government”, such incidents never takes place in third world countries like China, India, Sri Lanka or even Russia. Why? Because its democratic and people would revolt and overthrow the Govt. There Govt is afraid of people, but in US its more a kind of dictatorship, people are afraid of Govt.