Friday, November 05, 2004

US Military Actions Since 1945

WHY AMERICA IS HATED

US Military Actions since 1945:

1953 – US Over throws Massadeq of Iran.

1954 – Overthrow democratically elected President of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.

1963 – US backs the assassination of S. Vietnamese President Diem.

1963-1975 – Vietnam war. US military kills 4 million people in SE Asia.

Sept 11. 1973 – US Stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected president Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 civilians murdered.

1977 – US Backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and 4 American nuns killed.

1980s - US trains Osama Bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives then $3 billion in “aid”.

1981 – Reagan administration trans 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 casualties.

1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from the US.

1991 – US enters Iraq. Bush reinstates the dictator of Kuwait.

1998 – Clinton bombs “weapons” factory in Sudan. Turns out that the factory made aspirin.

1991-Present – American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi CHILDREN die from bombing and sanctions.

2000-2001 – US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in “aid”.

9/11 2001 – Osama Bin Laden uses expert CIA training to kill 3000 people.

2003 - Bush invades Iraq (?!). 100,000 (and still counting) innocent civilians slaughtered.

The rest of the world looks at the US and says “you lost 3000 people?”

SE Asia lost 4 million people.
Guatamala lost 200,000 people.
Chile lost 10,000 people.
Argentina lost 40,000 people.
Iraq lost 100,000+ people.

Maybe the rest of the world isn’t so sympathetic to our loss because we just ignore what’s been done in our name.

Bin laden killed 3000 and 290 million people want he and his followers killed. Bush killed 100,000. How many want him and his followers killed?