sjn14 said:
Yeah some times we are run by what seems like idiots but sometimes these idiots are the ones that save millions of lives.
hmmm....saving millions of lives? What an interesting way to look at history..
1953: U.s. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran.....U.S. istalls Shah 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 coup in Chile.....Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assinated.----Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed.....5,000 Chileans murdered.
1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador.......70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns are killed.
1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow "terrorists" to kill Soviets....CIA gives them 3 BILLION
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.....U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega....3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties...
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq.....Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan.....Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991-Present: American planes bonmb Iraq on a weekly basis....U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions .
2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 MILLION in "aid"..
Sept.11, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to kill 3,000 people.