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Originally posted by theking
Your opinons...are not correct...historically and otherwise.
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List of countries that the U.S. has either bombed or gone to war against
since the end of World War II ~ compiled by historian William Blum:
China: 1945-46, 1950-53
Korea: 1950-53 1.6 million civilians dead
Guatemala: 1954, 1960, 1967-69 200,000 dead
Indonesia: 1958
Cuba: 1959-60
Vietnam: 1961-73 541,000 dead including 65,000 North Vietnamese civilians
Belgian Congo: 1964
Laos: 1964-73
Peru: 1965
Cambodia: 1969-70
(Iran-Iraq War 1980-88 50,000 dead, aided and abetted by the U.S.)
Grenada: 1983
Libya: 1986
El Salvador: 1980s
Nicaragua: 1980s 30,000 Nicaraguans dead
Panama: 1989
Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq and First Gulf War: 1990-91 100,000 dead
U.S. frequent bombing raids on Iraq: 1991- 2003, 1.5 million dead from sanctions
Bosnia: 1995
Sudan: 1998
Afghanistan: 1998, 2001-02 5,000 civilians dead
Yugoslavia: 1999
Iraq: 2003 3,000 civilians dead
For The Record:
December 7, 1941 - a total of 2,323 U.S. servicemen were killed in Pearl Harbor attack by Japan.
August 6 and 9, 1945 - 205,000 Innocent Japanese were murdered by American Atomic bombs.
5.7 Million Jews were murdered by Hitler and his Nazis, whilst 13.4 million non-Jews lost their lives
and 11.3 million total were killed in Asia, during WWII.
- Total civilian casualties (excluding military losses) from World War II exceed 30.4 million.
Cambodia, Pol Pot, 1975-78 - 1.6 million dead
~ Sources: The History Channel, Twentieth Century Atlas, Israeli government,
Federation of American Scientists, International Rescue Committee, International Institute
for Strategic Studies (citing World Military and Social Expenditures), World Priorities.
Brutality Smeared In U.S. Peanut Butter
When he announced the Afghan air strikes, President George Bush said: "We're a peaceful nation."
"This is the calling of the United States of America. The most free nation in the world. A nation built on
fundamental values that reject hate, reject violence, rejects murderers and rejects evil. We will not tire."
1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah Pahlavi as dictator
1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed
1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.
September 11, 1973: U.S. stages a coup in Chile. Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated.
Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed; 5,000 Chileans killed
1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorians and four American nuns killed
1980s: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billionÊ
1981: Reagan administration trains and funds 'contras' 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982: U.S. 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 casualties
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from the U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush Sr. reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
1991- present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombings and sanctions.
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."
September 11, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his CIA training to 'allegedly' murder 3,000 people.
~ 'Bowling For Columbine', Michael Moore
March 2004: The U.S. led by Bush Jr. has now killed over 10,000 Afghan civilians
and more than15,000+ Iraqi civilians (Taliban, Afghan, Iraqi, US and UK soldiers not included).
now show me one powerfull country who could really fight back?