Why would you want to fight and defend these people in office if history shows that they have no idea what the fuck they are doing? Our military isn't fighting to defend america from any real threat, it's fighting a glass war that we should all be able to see right through. But the majority chooses not to. A great man once said we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Why didn't we listen?
1950: U.S. enters Korean War. By the time the war ends 1.5 - 3 million civilians from both north and south korea are dead.
1953: U.S. overthrows Mossadeq Prime Minister of Iran ( who wasn't a bad guy ) and installs Shah as dictator.
Removed out of British and American greed for foreign oil. Thanks Ike.
"From an aristocratic background, Mosaddegh was an author, administrator, lawyer, prominent parliamentarian, and politician. During his time as prime minister, a wide range of progressive social reforms were carried out. Unemployment compensation was introduced, factory owners were ordered to pay benefits to sick and injured workers, and peasants were freed from forced labor in their landlords' estates. Twenty percent of the money landlords received in rent was placed in a fund to pay for development projects such as public baths, rural housing, and pest control."
( Quoted from wikipedia article )
1954: U.S. overthrows democratically elected president Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians were killed as a result of the dictatorship put into the power by the United States of America, home of the "brave".
1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in southeast Asia.
September 11th, 1973: U.S. Stages coupe in Chile. Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende is assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans were murdered as a result of this dictatorship.
( Excerpt from wikipedia on Allende )
"Upon assuming power, Allende began to carry out his platform of implementing a socialist program called La vía chilena al socialismo ("the Chilean Path to Socialism"). This included nationalization of large-scale industries (notably copper mining and banking), and government administration of the health care system, educational system (with the help of an American educator, Jane A. Hobson-Gonzalez from Kokomo, Indiana), a program of free milk for children in the schools and shanty towns of Chile, and an expansion of the land seizure and redistribution already begun under his predecessor Eduardo Frei Montalva, who had nationalized between one-fifth and one-quarter of all the properties listed for takeover. The Allende government's intention was to seize all holdings of more than eighty irrigated hectares. Allende also intended to improve the socio-economic welfare of Chile's poorest citizens;[citation needed] a key element was to provide employment, either in the new nationalised enterprises or on public work projects."
( excerpt of U.S. Response )
( Augusto Pinochet )
"The possibility of Allende winning Chile's 1970 election was deemed a disaster by a US government who wanted to protect US business interests and prevent any spread of communism during the Cold War. In September 1970, President Nixon informed the CIA that an Allende government in Chile would not be acceptable and authorized $10 million to stop Allende from coming to power or unseat him. The CIA's plans to impede Allende's investiture as President of Chile were known as "Track I" and "Track II"; Track I sought to prevent Allende from assuming power via so-called "parliamentary trickery", while under the Track II initiative, the CIA tried to convince key Chilean military officers to carry out a coup."
( quoted from wikipedia )
1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four american nuns were killed as a result.
1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill soviets. The CIA gave them around $3 to 20 billion in finances.
1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras." 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
( Great job Ronnie )
In front of the International Court of Justice, Nicaragua claimed that the contras altogether were a creation of the U.S. This claim was rejected. The evidence of a very close relationship between the contras and the U.S. was overwhelming and incontrovertible, though. The U.S. played a very large role in financing, training, arming, and advising the contras over a long period, and the contras only became capable of carrying out significant military operations as a result of this support.
( quoted from wikipedia )
( A few things that the "contras" carried out with our $24 million funding )
- Targeting health care clinincs and health care workers for assassination.
- Kidnapping civilians
- Torturing civilians
- Executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat
- raping women
- indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses
- seizing civilian property
- burning civilian houses in captured towns
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.
( Smart politics )
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega ( also serving as President of Panama ) disobeys orders from Washington.
The U.S. invaded Panama and removed Noriega. With only 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from the U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq and President Bush reinstated the dictator of Kuwait.
1993: U.S. enters Battle of Mogadishu a battle in which Osama bin Laden affirmed that fighters affiliated with his group were among the men killing U.S. Soldiers.
Between civilians and militia men 1,000 to 3,000 Somalians were killed. 19 American soldiers were killed and 73 more were wounded.
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan.
The factory turned out to be making aspirin.
1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
The UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi children have died from bombing and sanctions.
2000-2001: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."
September 11, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.
What is it going to take for the American people to realize that the government isn't looking out for our best interests? Instead they fund and provide so much death and destruction under the guise of fear and propaganda through mainstream media.
Thanks for the help J.
