Crimes Against Humanity Commited By USA

[gamavor]

Have you watched the Republican that was giving his speech asking for 4 more years. I haven't laugh that hard since the times of Leonid Brejnev speeches. Such a selective reference to "glorious" American participation in the quest for freedom and liberty. Just in case you don't know Ronald Reagan freed Poland and Siberia.

Now they are freeing Iraq. USA was very close to liberate Eastern Berlin and supplied humanitarian aid to West Berlin. I don't remember all the gems but here is a list of other "glorious" American Acts of 'freedom'.

 

I guess that explains the blood relationship between Turks and Americans.

 

Some of course are questionable, but mostly accurate.

 

Enjoy!

 

1947 Greece: The USA intervenes in the civil war in Greece supporting the neo-fascist side against the Greek resistance to the Nazis

 

1948 Peru: A military coup occurs in Peru. The elected government is overthrown by CIA trained Manuel Odria. This and subsequent undemocratic governments is recognised and armed by the West, expecially the USA. Elections would not be held until 1980.

 

1948 Vietnam: The USA backs French forces attempting to retake Vietnam. Thousands of civilians die in bombing.

 

1948 Nicaragua: The USA supports and arms the corrupt dictator Anastasio Samoza in Nicaragua. President Roosevelt says of Samoza: "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." The Samoza family amasses a huge fortune and crush dissent ruthlessly

 

1950 Puerto Rico: The USA crushes the independence movement in Puerto Rico.

 

1954 Vietnam: The French are defeated by Vietnam forces and forced to withdraw. The USA helps France militarily then takes over the French role in Vietnam. The big powers (USA, France, USSR, China) officially agree to partition Vietnam into two separate states regardless of the wishes of the people. An agreement is proposed to allow for a referendum in 1956 to decide the future of the country. The USA refuses to agree to this knowing that over 80% of the population want reunification with the north.

 

1958 Lebanon: The USA sends 14,000 troops to put down anti-Western dissidents in Lebanon. The USA CIA had funded the election campaign of

Camille Chamoun and had targeted opponents to American influence in the country.

 

1959 Haiti: The USA train the military of Francis Duvalier, the dictatorial ruler of Haiti. The USA military help crush a rebellion against Duvalier.

 

1960 Iraq: The leader of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem, helps found the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). This organisation challenges Western oil companies which maintain economic control of the marketing of Arab oil. The USA CIA plans and attempts to assassinate Kassem at the same time destabilising Iraq by funding the minority Kurdish population.

 

1961 Cuba: A secret invasion of Cuba to remove Castro by USA backed forces fails. The invasion, called The Bay of Pigs, had been approved by the USA president John Kennedy.

 

1962 Vietnam: The USA becomes more active in Vietnam. Villagers are moved into fenced off camps. Chemical defoliants are sprayed into the jungle. These are later found to contain Dioxin. This is a cancer producing chemical that causes genetic mutations in children, who are born deformed or with parts of their bodies missing. No compensation has ever been paid.

 

1962 Cuba: Cuba begins to improve education and health for its people as well as redistribute land, previously owned by multinational companies. By 1973 Cuba will have the lowest child mortality and the highest literacy in Latin America. In spite of these measures, popular with the majority of the population, the USA puts pressure on its allies to exclude Cuba from various inter-American forums. The USA continues to blockade the country and even attempts to assassinate the president, Fidel Castro. A UK freighter bound from Cuba to the USSR with 80,000 bags of sugar stops in Puerto Rico for repairs. Agents from the USA CIA contaminate the sugar with a harmless chemical that makes the sugar unpalatable. A CIA official later reveals: "There was lots of sugar being sent out from Cuba, and we were putting a lot of contaminates in it." The USA president, John Kennedy, is angry when he hears of the operation because it had occurred on USA territory and could hand the USSR a propaganda weapon. A Canadian worker in Cuba is paid $5,000 "by an American military intelligence agent" to infect turkeys with a fatal disease; 8,000 turkeys die. A group of CIA dispatched rebels blow up an industrial facility killing 400 workers.

 

1963 Iraq: The leader of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem, is overthrown in a coup and summarily executed. The USA gives the new regime (the Ba'ath Party - soon to be headed by Saddam Hussein) the names of communists who are then killed. Thousands die. Kassem had helped found the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in an attempt to curtail Western control of Arab oil. He had been planning to nationalise the Iraq Petroleum Company in which the USA had an interest. Iraq had also disapproved when Kuwait had been given independence by the UK with a pro-west emir (king) and oil concessions to Western companies. A few days before the coup, the French newspaper La Monde had reported that Kassem had been warned by the USA government to change his country's economic policies or face sanctions. British government papers later declassified would indicate that the coup was backed by the USA and UK. The new Ba'ath government promises not to nationalise American oil interests and renounces its claim to Kuwait. The USA recognises and praises the new government.

 

1963 El Salvador: The government of the USA sends 10 Special Forces personnel to El Salvador to help General Jose Alberto Medrano set up the Organizacion Democratica Nacionalista (ORDEN). This is the first paramilitary death squad in that country. For the next 30 years, members of the USA military and the CIA will help organize, train, and fund death squad activity in El Salvador.

 

1964 North Vietnam: The USA begins secret attacks on North Vietnamese shipping. When a USA torpedo boat is "attacked", the USA uses this as a pretext to begin bombing North Vietnam. The bombing is blanket and kills civilian and military alike. This is an undeclared war. [note: the torpedo boat attack has since been admitted by Robert McNamara to not actually having occured]

 

1964 Panama: Troops from the USA, fire on demonstrators in Panama calling for the return of the canal.

 

1965 Vietnam: The USA commits 125,000 troops to fight in Vietnam. The military policy consists of indiscriminate killing, bombing and chemical warfare (cancer producing defoliants and napalm that burns flesh (napalm is outlawed under the Geneva Conventions related to poisoned and asphyxiating gasses). Anti war protests occur in the USA capital, Washington DC. In 1983, a specialist in CIA propaganda, Ralph McGehee, would admit that the evidence of communist weapons running that was the excuse for the troops being deployed was faked by the CIA.

 

1965 Dominican Republic: The USA sends 23,000 troops to the Dominican Republic to prevent the previously elected president Juan Bosch from returning to power. Falling sugar prices had led to a popular uprising against the USA-backed military dictatorship. More than 4,000 Dominicans are killed. The USA newspaper New York Times admits that Dominicans were "fighting and dying for social justice and constitutionalism."

 

1965 Laos: The USA CIA creates the 30,000 strong Armeé Clandestine using Asian mercenaries to destabilise Laos. Between 1965 and 1973 the USA would drop more than 2 million tons (2,030 million kg) of bombs on Laos. People would be forced to live in caves for many years; hundreds of thousands would die.

 

1965 Peru: The USA sets up military camps in the jungles of Peru and exterminates several dissident groups that are fighting the government for economic equality.

 

1967: Greece. CIA encourages a group of Greek army officers to overthrow the elected government of Greece a few weeks before the 1967 elections. Thousands of Greeks are arrested, tortored and killed during the next 7 years. USA continues to arm the Greek military throughtout the dictatorship.

 

1968 Vietnam: In Vietnam, USA troops of Charlie Company led by Lieutenant William Calley, carry out a massacre in the village of My Lai. More than 200 civilians are blown up with grenades, bayoneted and shot. Several young girls are raped before being killed. The killings take four hours including a lunch break next to a pile of corpses. The only American casualty is a soldier who shoots himself in the foot.

 

1969 Cambodia: USA B-52 planes secretly bomb Cambodia. This bombing would continue until 1973 and would eventually destroy the country's stability leading to the chaos and anarchy of the killing fields under the Khmer Rouge.

 

1970 Uruguay: Alejandro Otero, the former Chief of Police Intelligence of Uruguay admits that the USA trained Uruguayan police officers to torture political prisoners in the 1960s. In an interview in the Brazilian newspaper, Jornal do Brazil, the former Chief says that Dan Mitrione (from the USA Office of Public Safety) built a soundproof room in the cellar of his house in Montevideo. He assembled a group of police officers and had four beggars rounded up as subjects. Mitione demonstrated the effect of different voltages on different parts of the body. All four died. Mitrone is quoted as telling the officers: "When you get what you want, and I always get it, it may be good to prolong the session a little to apply another softening up. Not to extract information now, but only as a political measure, to create a healthy fear of medling in subversive activities." Mitrone had previously been assigned in Brazil where he taught police how to use electric shock to torture victims without killing them. In 1998 retired Uruguayan naval admiral, Eladio Moll, would explain: "The guidance that was sent from the USA was that what had to be done with the captured guerrillas was to get information, and that afterwards they didn't deserve to live".

 

1970 Oman: The USA helps and directs a secret invasion of Oman by Iran.

 

1971 Laos: Troops from the USA backed South Vietnam invade Laos.

 

1972 Nicaragua: An earthquake occurs in Nicaragua. The USA backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle loots the property of people who had left their homes and then siphons international aid of $ 30 million into its own pockets. The USA sends troops to protect American business interests and continue to back the regime.

 

1972 Iraq: The USA provides $16 million worth of military aid to Kurdish rebels in Iraq. The purpose is to tie up Iraq's resources and please USA ally, Iran. A USA CIA memo of 1974 would admit: "Iran, like ourselves, has seen benefit in a stalemate situation... in which Iraq is intrinsically weakened by the Kurd's refusal to relinquish semi-autonomy. Neither Iran nor ourselves wish to see the matter resolved one way or the other".

 

1973 Cambodia: B-52 bombers from the USA bomb Cambodia for 160 consecutive days; the targets are rice fields, water buffalo, and villages, particularly along the Mekong River. Since the bombing began (in 1969) the amount of bombs dropped on Cambodia is 50% more than the non-nuclear explosives dropped on Japan during World War II. Cambodia is a peasant society with no air force or ground defenses. During the bombing, 600,000 people die and 2,000,000 become refugees.

 

1974 Zaire: The USA sends $1,400,000 to assist troops fighting a civil war in Zaire. The USA backed ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko, keeps the entire sum. Zaire has more resources than most other countries in the region; the corrupt regime keeps this country so poor that one third of Zaire's children die before the age of five. Imprisonment and torture, often without trial, are commonly used against Mobutu's opponents.

 

1974 Cyprus:

 

1975 Vietnam: The war in Vietnam ends with victory for North Vietnam. American citizens are evacuated from Saigon while loyal South Vietnamese who had supported the Americans are abandoned to their fate. 7000 people are air lifted from Saigon in 18 hours. The country is united for the first time since World War II with its capital in Hanoi. During the various USA bombing campaigns in Vietnam (as well as Cambodia and Laos), over 3,000,000 civilians have died. Over 300,000 soldiers are "missing in action" (MIA). 58,022 Americans died

 

1975 East Timor: East Timor gains its independence from Portugal. A few months later, Indonesia invades and occupies the tiny state, committing many atrocities. The Western countries remain silent during the invasion. The USA president and Henry Kissinger (USA Secretary of State) visit Indonesia a few days before the invasion. The CIA reports

that Indonesia is attempting to "provoke incidents that would provide [them] with an excuse to invade." Over the next few years, up to 200,000 people are killed, a third of the population.

 

1975 Iraq: The USA had supported Kurdish rebels in Iraq since 1972 in order to weaken Iraq and please Iran. When Iran reaches an agreement with Iraq and seals the border; the Iraqis kill many Kurds while the USA denies them refuge and ignores their pleas for help. In the Pike Committee hearings, Henry Kissinger explains that "covert action should not be confused with missionary work". At the same hearings the CIA admit that "even in the context of covert action, ours was a cynical enterprise".

 

1976 Indonesia: The USA increases its military aid for Indonesia to $146,000,000 even though much of the hardware will be used against civilians in East Timor.

 

1976 Philippines: A report from Amnesty International identifies 88 government torturers in the Philippines. The report states that alleged subversives have their heads slammed into walls, their genitals and pubic hair torched, and are beaten with clubs, fists, bottles, and rifle butts. Over 60,000 people have been arrested for political reasons. The Philippine ruler, Ferdinand Marcos, is supported by the USA which had recently approved a $ 88,000,000 World

Bank loan to his regime. A few years later, George Bush (then USA Vice President) would praise Marcos for his "adherence to democratic principals and to the democratic processes".

 

1977 Pakistan: A military coup occurs in Pakistan. General Zia Ul-Haq takes power and deposes the Prime Minister, Zulfikir Bhutto (who is executed in 1979). Martial Law lasts until 1985. The new dictator receives aid and arms from the USA.

 

1977 Zaire: The USA sends extensive military support (including soldiers from Morocco) to Zaire in support of the brutal dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko.

 

1977 Indonesia: Indonesia begins to run out of military equipment due to its activities in suppressing the independence movement in East Timor. Adam Malik (former Foreign Minister) states: "50,000 or 80,000 people might have been killed during the war in East Timor... It was war... then what is the big fuss?" The USA authorises $ 112,000,000 in

commercial arms sales.

 

1978 Zaire: In a repeat of 1977, the USA sends extensive military support to Zaire in support of the brutal dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko.

 

1978 Guatemala: General Fernando RomeoLucas Garcia, a graduate of the infamous US terrorist training camp, The School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, takes power in Guatemala in a military coup. This is one of the country's most brutal regimes, killing 20,000 civilians mainly by death squads. The USA continues to finance the military and trade with the country. (For more information on the School of the Americas see http://www.soaw.org/new/)

 

1979 Afghanistan: The USA funds extreme Islamic fighters in Afghanistan to repel an invasion by the USSR. These fighters are trained by the USA and its allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Ossama Bin Laden, a Saudi businessman, is encouraged by the USA to set up training camps in Afganistan. In one action, Bin Laden led his men to attack a mixed school (of boys and girls - set up by the previous regime) and kill all the teachers. After the defeat of the USSR, the

fighters turn on each other.

 

In 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to the USA president, Jimmy Carter, would admit that the USA began sending military aid to Afghanistan's Islamic fighters six months before the USSR invasion. He believed (and told the president) that "this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention". Brzezinski went on to say "The secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap... Indeed for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war..." The suffering of the Afghan people was a side issue of the Cold War. 50% of the Aghan population would end up dead, disabled, or as refugees.

 

1979 Cambodia: In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot is toppled by Vietnam. After four years of terror, over 2,500,000 people have died under the regime. The USA ensures that the Khmer Rouge keeps Cambodia's seat at the United Nations even though it is longer in power. This is partially for revenge on Vietnam (who defeated the USA

militarily), and partially to please the USA's new ally China (who are the principal supporters of the Khmer Rouge and are opposed to Vietnam). The USA turns a blind eye as China supplies the Khmer Rouge with arms via Thailand. In 1981, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the USA president's security adviser would admit: "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot." The USA and Thailand supplied the Khmer Rouge under the cover of humanitarian aid. Two USA relief aid workers, Linda Mason and Roger Brown, later wrote: "The US Government insisted that the Khmer Rouge be fed ... the US preferred that the Khmer Rouge operation benefit from the credibility of an internationally known relief operation."

 

1979 Yemen: The USA supports paramilitary forces in Yemen.

 

1980 Honduras: Honduras, ruled by an American backed military regime, is flooded by USA troops. 12,000 insurgents are based in the country and trained for destabilising nearby countries (Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua). 100,000 Hondurans demonstrate against the presence and influence of the USA in their country (which they jokingly call the USS Honduras). The USA CIA supplies torture equipment to Battalion 316, a Honduran army unit which kidnaps, tortures and kills hundreds of people using electric shock and suffocation. The battalion is trained by USA and Argentinian advisors. Victims include anybody deemed to be anti-American, supporters of social change in Honduras,

or supporters of groups being attacked in neighbouring countries. The director of the battalion, General Gustavo Alvares Martinez informs the USA ambassador that he wants to use Argentinian methods of eliminating his enemies. In 1983 the USA president, Ronald Reagan, would award Martinez the Legion of Merit "for encouraging the success

of the democratic process in Honduras". The USA newspaper, the New York Times, would report in 1988 that: "American diplomats exercise more control over domestic politics in Honduras than in any other country in the hemisphere..."

 

1980 Iraq: Iraq invades Iran beginning a war that would last for 10 years killing over 1,000,000 people. The USA opposes United Nations condemnation of the invasion and removes Iraq from its list of "nations supporting terrorism". Iraq is financed by Saudi Arabia and armed by the UK and USA. Ten years later these weapons would be turned

towards these supporters. The USA also sent arms to Iran secretly via Israel; both countries hoping a military coup would take place.

 

1980 Cambodia: Under USA pressure, the World Food Program hands over food worth $12 million to the army of Thailand. This food aid is passed on to the Khmer Rouge, the previous government of Cambodia, responsible for killing over 2,500,000 of its own citizens. Richard Holbrooke, a USA minister stated that "20,000 to 40 000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited." This aid helped restore the Khmer Rouge to a fighting force, based in Thailand, from which it would destabilize Cambodia for more than a decade. Weapons made in (West) Germany, the USA, and Sweden are supplied to the Khmer Rouge via dealers in Singapore. The Singapore owned company Chartered Industries makes some

of the weapons.

 

1980 Italy: A bomb explosion in the railway station in Bologna in Italy kills 86 people. This is later shown to be part of Operation Gladio set up by the USA CIA to heighten public concern about the USSR and to discredit Communist and Socialist election candidates. The USA fears that these parties, if elected, would pass legislation against NATO.

 

1982 Guatemala: Jose Monnt assumes dictatorial powers in Guatemala. American companies, like United Fruit, are the main beneficiaries. Death squads kill a number of workers and union leaders at the Coca Cola bottling plant. As many as 10,000 indigenous people are killed and over 100,000 flee to Mexico under the regime. The USA Ambassador to Guatemala says of Monnt: "Guatemala has come out of the darkness and into the light". Guatemala has been given financial and military aid by the USA president, Ronald Reagan since 1980. The CIA operates

in the country helping in the activities of the death squads.

 

1982 South Africa: USA officials help secure an approved loan from the International Monetary Fund of $ 1,100 million for South Africa. Much of the money is used to destabilise neighbouring countries and to oppress its own non-voting black population.

 

1982 Afghanistan: With the active encouragement of the USA's CIA and Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 40 Islamic countries are encouraged to join in a jihad (holy war) in Afghanistan against the USSR between 1982 and 1992. Tens of thousands more come to study in Pakistani madrasas (religious

schools). Eventually more than 100,000 foreign Muslim radicals are directly involved in the war. The Islamic jihad is supported by the USA and Saudi Arabia with a significant part of the funding generated from the drug trade in the Golden Crescent (Burma and Thailand).

 

1982 Iran/Iraq: The USA continues to arm Iraq in its war against Iran. The USA CIA is implicated in a number of plots to assassinate the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini.

 

1983 Lebanon: The USA sends troops to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force. The troops intervene on one side of the civil war. The USS New Jersey bombards towns and cities, including Beirut.

 

1983 Nicaragua: Nicaragua breaks diplomatic relations with the USA after CIA plots to assassinate the popular president, Daniel Ortega.Ortega had won a free and internationally observed election with 63% of the vote. In spite of this, the USA's President Reagan begins a trade embargo on Nicaragua, secretly mines its ports, destroys agricultural collectives and health clinics, and uses its influence in the World Bank to block previously agreed loans to the country.

Although condemned by the World Court, the USA continues this destabilisation until 1990 when a USA backed party, the National Opposition Union is elected by a small margin. The USA undermines the World Court. On previous occasions, the USA had used the Court against various states but on this occasion, the Court was denounced and its

ruling ignored.

 

1983 Granada: US forces invade Grenada, a small island state to depose the socialist government which came to power in a 1979 bloodless coup which overthrew the despotic and eccentric Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, whose murderous secret police--known as the Mongoose Squad--and his passion for flying saucers, the occult, and

extra-terrestrial communication had brought him notoriety throughout the hemisphere. Gairy is granted asylum in the USA. US forces invade on Octover 25,

 

1985 Chad: In Chad, the government of President Habré kills hundreds of villagers in the south of the country. Victims are tortured, burned alive or poisoned. The regime is supported, trained and financed by France and the USA.

 

1985 Honduras: President Suazo Cordova, working with the USA Ambassador and the military of Honduras, allows the country to become a training center for USA funded Nicaraguan Contras. USA aid to Honduras reaches $ 231,000,000. A unit called the Cobras is set up. Victims of the Cobras are stripped, bound, thrown into pits, and tortured. Many high ranking government and military personnel are drug traffickers The USA embassy rents space from known drug dealers.

 

1986 Nicaragua: The USA legislature refuse funding for the Contras (anti-Nicaragua mercenaries set up and trained by the USA). President Reagan secretly approves arms sales to Iran in contradiction to official USA policy. The money from these sales is diverted to the Contras. The purpose is to destabilise the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega. Colonel Oliver North sets up centers in Colombia where cocaine dealing obtains more money to buy arms for the Contras. The drugs trade leads to a crack cocaine epidemic in Western countries. The USA's policies inflict more than 50,000 casualties in Nicaragua. This includes nearly 3,500 children killed and over 6,000 children orphaned. The USA made film Under Fire covers this period. The USA is criticised by the World Court for its undercover action against the democratically elected government of Nicaragua. The Court orders the USA to pay reparations of $ 17,000,000, which the USA refuses to abide by.

 

1988 Iran: The USA bombs oil facilities in Iran. The USA destroyer, the US Vincennes in Iranian territorial waters, shoots down an Iranian commercial flight (Iran Air 654) in Iranian airspace killing all 286 passengers. The USA refuses to apologise; vice president, George Bush is quoted in the magazine, Newsweek: "I will never apologise for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are".

 

1988 Iraq: The UK and USA have been arming and supporting Iraq during its war with Iran. Between 1985 and 1989, private companies from the USA had exported the following biological agents to Iraq after obtaining licenses from the USA Department of Commerce: Bacillus anthracis, the cause of the often fatal disease, anthrax. Clostridium botulinum, a toxin source. Histoplasma capsulatum, a disease that attacks lungs, brain, heart and spinal chord. Brucella melitensis, a bacteria that damages major organs. Clostridium perfringens, a highly toxic bacteria causing illness.

Clostridium tetani, a bacteria causing tetanus. Other exports had included the precursors to chemical warfare agents, production facilities and equipment for filling warheads with chemicals.

 

1989 Panama: The USA invades Panama to capture Manuel Noriega, the former USA backed president whom they accuse of drug trafficking. Over 4000 Panamanians are killed in the operation with unknown numbers buried in mass graves or incinerated. Of the invaders, 23 Americans die.

 

1989 Cambodia: The USA Congress passes a law banning direct or indirect "lethal aid" to Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge (former genocidal rulers of Cambodia). In defiance, the USA administration continues to send arms to the Khmer Rouge via Singapore. The Khmer Rouge is trained to destabilise Cambodia and neighbouring Vietnam. The force is trained by the UK. A Ministry of Defence official tells Simon O'Dwyer-Russell of the UK newspaper, the

Sunday Telegraph: "If [uSA's] Congress had found out that Americans were mixed up in clandestine training in Indochina, let alone with Pol Pot, the balloon would have gone right up. It was one of those classic Thatcher-Reagan arrangements. It was put to her that the SAS should take over the Cambodia show, and she agreed."

 

1989 Libya: USA forces shoot down two Libyan planes off the coast of Libya. The USA vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the action.

 

1990 Guatemala: Michael DeVine, an American businessman living in Guatemala, stumbles on the military's drug trafficking activities. He is kidnapped and killed. In response, USA president, George Bush, cuts off military aid to Guatemala and publicly criticises the regime. Secretely, Bush continues to send CIA funds to the military to allow them to continue their activities, and strengthens the ties between the CIA and the Guatemalan military.

 

1992 Somalia: After entering Somalia for "humanitarian reasons", USA helicopters fire on a crowd including women and children killing over 200 people. According to a CIA estimate, in the entire operation (called "Operation Restore Hope") at least 7,000 people are killed by USA forces.

 

1993 Cuba: The American Association of World Health reports that the USA imposed trade embargo against Cuba "has contributed to serious nutritional deficits, particularly among pregnant women, leading to an increase in low birthweight babies. In addition, food shortages were linked to a devastating outbreak of neuropathy numbering in the tens of thousands." The USA's boycotts of countries like Cuba as well as threats to retaliate against non-USA companies doing business with them violates the global trade rules that the USA has signed. Although it exempts itself from these rules, the USA insists on other countries abiding by them.

 

1996 Iraq: The USA bombs Iraq. This bombing has been going on for six years. The USA finances the Iraqi National Accord with millions of dollars. This group uses car bombs in Baghdad and other cities in an attempt to destabilise Saddam Hussein. Over 100 civilians have been killed in Baghdad between 1994 and 1996. A few weeks later at a USA led conference in Egypt, one of the topics of discussion would be the flow of money to terrorist groups.

 

1997 Rwanda: In Rwanda, over 60000 civilians are killed by the military. The military is trained and funded by the USA and South Africa. The slaughter in this country is largely unreported by the West.

 

1998 Afghanistan: The ruling Taliban government of Afghanistan kills over 2,000 Hazaras in Mazar-i Sharif. Hundreds of war prisoners are suffocated while being transported in closed containers. Over 4,500 people are detained. This government had been financed by the USA, UK and Saudi Arabia and is supported by the democratically elected government of Pakistan. Support from the West will only wane when permission to build an oil pipeline is not forthcoming.

 

1998 Sudan: A factory in Sudan is bombed with Tomahawk missiles by the USA. This was later admitted by the USA to have been an error. The casualty toll remains unknown as the USA blocks a United Nations inquiry.

 

1999 Iraq: The UK and USA continue to bomb Iraq on a near daily basis. In the first 8 months of the year, 10,000 missions are flown over the country, dropping over a thousand bombs and missiles on 400 targets. Hundreds of people are killed and wounded. The director of the operation, Brigadier General William Looney gloats: "If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddam SAMs [surface to Air Missiles]. They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need."

 

1999 Guatemala: The USA continues to support the military in Guatemala. On the coffee plantations (owned by American interests), the peasants (descendants of the Maya), live in concentration-camp like conditions, virtually as slaves. Education in rural areas is non-existent, with the result that 50% of the people are illiterate. Half of the country's children suffer from malnutrition. Hunger is rife in one of the world's most fertile countries. The military have used death squad tactics to suppress dissent. In the previous 30 years, over 150,000 people have been killed or disappeared, tens of thousands have been forced to flee to Mexico, 1,000,000 have become refugees, and more than 440 villages have been destroyed.

 

2001 Iraq: The UK and USA continue to bomb Iraq. Between 1998 and 2000, over 24,000 combat missions were flown over Iraq. Two United Nations Weapons Inspectors resigned in 1998 and 2000 over the ten year long sanctions in force on Iraq. Over 500,000 children under 5 have died. In 1996, the USA Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright was asked on an American television programme ("60 Minutes", 12 May): "We have heard that a half a million children have died [because of sanctions against Iraq]. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And - you know - is the price worth it?" In her reply (in which the figures are not challenged) she asserts: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it."

 

2001 Afghanistan: Pakistan and Russia fund opposing factions in Afganistan. All the factions violate human rights. The ruling Taliban government (backed by Pakistan) forces Hindus to wear distinguishing identification, stops aid reaching minority areas and massacres 170 Hazaras in Yakaolang. The USA government of George W Bush gives $43 million to the Taliban in May.

 

2003 Iraq. American and British forces invade. To date an estimated 12-16,000 civilians have been killed. An unknown number have been imprisoned and tortured.

[Sasun]

Gamavor, you have got a case! What are you a lawyer?

 

Seriously though I don't understand how you could laugh, its a sad reality for the world and the US that Bush has a very big chance of getting re-elected.

 

I was watching Cheney's speech, what a repulsive liar.

Edited September 2, 2004 by Sasun

[gamavor]

My case is: Mit optimismus gegen Kommunismus! In other words "With optimism against communism!"

 

Seriously though I don't understand how you could laugh, its a sad reality for the world and the US that Bush has a very big chance of getting re-elected.

 

Do you think I care? All I hope for is to win from a lottery and to buy myself peace somewhere in a remote island with my Northern beauty!

Edited September 2, 2004 by gamavor

[Sasun]

All I hope for is to win from a lottery and to buy myself peace somewhere in a remote island with my Northern beauty!

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That's a good strategy

[DominO123]

There are many missing informations and as well many(not some ) that are not accurate.

[gamavor]

I know! By "SOME" I mean "MANY"! After all...with all due respect I'm a lawyer!

[Accelerated]

ah yes - America: the beacon of freedom and liberty, but it puts the 'Evil Empire' (USSR) to shame....

[gamavor]

Empires have the bad habit of getting choked...and Adios!

 

The other day, one of those Christ – America loving sweet innocent blond chicks proudly declared to me that America is the new Roman Empire. I wished her best of luck!

[Accelerated]

yeah, I think its a sin you didnt point out how Rome met its end: amid much looting, murder, rape etc.

[gurgen]

Empires have the bad habit of getting choked...and Adios!

 

The other day, one of those Christ – America loving sweet innocent blond chicks proudly declared to me that America is the new Roman Empire. I wished her best of luck! 

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I hope the new 'Roman Empire' gets invaded by Goths too.

[Arpa]

Empires have the bad habit of getting choked...and Adios!

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The one empire that has got to go is the most evil one sitting on our lands.

 

 

IT WILL !!!

 

It has way outlived its (un)welcome.

[shiner]

When this "evil" empire called the US falls to pieces, maybe all these immigrants who hate America will start liking it.

 

The poverty, chaos, weak economy, lack of opportunities, etc. will remind them of the underdeveloped countries they desperately fled away from and miss so much. And then they can feel more at home.

Edited September 3, 2004 by shiner

[Stormig]

Whatever happened to the Meet the U.S. thread?

[ED]

Whatever happened to the Meet the U.S. thread?

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what happend to you girl? its still here

[gurgen]

When this "evil" empire called the US falls to pieces, maybe all these immigrants who hate America will start liking it.

 

The poverty, chaos, weak economy, lack of opportunities, etc. will remind them of the underdeveloped countries they desperately fled away from and miss so much. And then they can feel more at home.

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Who criticized America's immigration policy? Of course they try to make America as a good a country as they can. It's the other countries that get screwed over at their expense, as that list clearly points out.

[gamavor]

Just have a look at the immigration patterns and you will see who is the screwed up. Compare immigrants from Western Europe to any other immigrant group.

[shiner]

Who criticized America's immigration policy? Of course they try to make America as a good a country as they can. It's the other countries that get screwed over at their expense, as that list clearly points out.

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Gurgen,

I was not talking about that.

I was referring to immigrants who live in the US after desperately fleeing their homelands, and then being ignorant when it comes to acknowledging the advantages they have here. They get caught up in harshly criticising their adopted country which they have come to by their own choice, on the premise that their impoverished homelands (which they left by choice) were somehow "better".

 

There are many like this. We even have some on this forum.

Edited September 4, 2004 by shiner

[gamavor]

Shiner, go one step ahead. Why these people left their countries?

[shiner]

Different reasons.

 

The most common one a weak economy, from which a whole bunch of other problems arise. Now what makes one countries economy weaker over the other? I was just thinking about this the other day, and I asked that in that "How a society develops thread"?

Of course some factors are natural resources, geographic location, neighboring countries, etc.

 

Then of course there are other reasons such as religious persecution, etc.

 

If the insinuation is that the US is meddling in other countries affairs, makes them weaker, and then sucks its people out into America I really don't see it (at least not in the majority of cases).

 

All communist countries had people defecting to the US and I don't think the US was making those countries communist deliberately. On the contrary the US was opposing the communism.

 

Africa is a poor continent. I don't see how it is because of the US. If anything the British are responsible for its colonization.

 

India is poor as well. Is it because of the US? If anything the US is contributing to its economy by outsourcing jobs (involuntarily).

 

China is benefiting from more free trade now. Is the US holding it back. If anything it is helping.

 

EVEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST. All these Arabs would drown in their own oil with no US market.

 

I don't see how the US has hurt the Europeans. If anything it has helped them in both world wars. And its probably even helping now through its economy. Wouldn't a weak Wall Street hurt the whole world in such a global economy? London, a huge financial center, would not benefit from a catastrophe in New York, on the contrary it would suffer. So would Tokyo.

 

In the case of religious persecution let's take Iran for example. I really don't think the US likes those Muslim fundamentalists, on the contratry they liked the Shah.

 

And how about Iraq? Do you think that it is the US stopping Iraq from integrating into the global economy and raising its standard of living? I think its those backwards fools kidnapping foreignors and discouraging outside investors.

 

The examples are endless. I just don't see that perspective.

[gamavor]

On the contrary the US was opposing the communism.

 

I personally oppose Shamanism in any form or rendition! Does that change anything?

 

I'm far from accusing USA of all sins in the World. Not even close. But, I believe that certain behavior (pretty common among other people and governments as well) naturally stimulates the flow of immigration. I don't know any other country in the world where the right to immigrate was elevated to state policy. USA has imposed economic restrictions and boycotts to countries that have had anti-immigration regulations or in any way limited the free movement of people.

 

And how about Iraq? Do you think that it is the US stopping Iraq from integrating into the global economy and raising its standard of living? I think its those backwards fools kidnapping foreignors and discouraging outside investors.

 

Nope, my friend! It is not even about petrol. It is about who has the hold of the petro-dollars. And how he spends them! If you spent your proceeds from oil sales wisely there won't be any trouble.

 

Buy American!

Edited September 4, 2004 by gamavor

[Accelerated]

USA has imposed economic restrictions and boycotts to countries that have had anti-immigration regulations or in any way limited the free movement of people.

 

eg. Cuba: on one hand they have cripling sanctions and on the other they grant asylum to any Cuban who is fortunate enough to land on their soil.

[shiner]

Gamavor,

I don't understand your post on Iraq. If those fanatics would not exist, foreigners would poor into Iraq setting up businesses, etc. As far as conspiracy theories on oil, I don't know.

 

Accel,

What should they do about Cuba? If there were no sanctions you would accuse them of supporting Castro. If they would turn away those seeking asylum you would accuse them of being inhumane. If they would remove Castro, you would accuse them of being an occupying force like in Iraq. If they do nothing you would accuse them for not caring. And this does not even include the conspiracy theories.

By "you" I mean all critics. But most of those critics can't provide any alternatives.

[gamavor]

Gamavor,

I don't understand your post on Iraq. If those fanatics would not exist, foreigners would poor into Iraq setting up businesses, etc. As far as conspiracy theories on oil, I don't know.

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Well, if you are Saddam and in the course of 10 years you have sold oil to US and with the proceeds you buy French Mirages or Russian AK's, I as American would be offended.

[Accelerated]

What should they do about Cuba? If there were no sanctions you would accuse them of supporting Castro.

 

No I wouldnt, remove the sactions and let them be: Castro is going to die soon anyway and the Cold War is over....