May 02, 2008

USA - Greatest perpetrator of Violence in the World


Its kind of shocking when you see our country's laundry list of acts of homicide spelled out like this. As explained over at lewrockwell.com:

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the US, Robert Elias who is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco wrote a paper outlining the terror tactics of the American government on foreign countries. Regardless of how one feels about his point in the essay on why the 9/11 attacks occurred, one must be horrified at the actions of our government that he marshaled into evidence in his article.

He pointed out that the US has used "Weapons of Mass Destruction" around the world on innocent civilian populations. These are American bombs, both nuclear and conventional, used indiscriminately for no military objective. The targets are civilian centers and the victims are simply called "collateral damage."

Japan
(1945)


China
(1945–46)


Korea
& China (1950–53)


Guatemala
(1954, 1960, 1967–69)


Indonesia
(1958)


Cuba
(1959–61)


Congo
(1964)


Peru
(1965)


Laos
(1964–70)


Vietnam
(1961–1973)


Cambodia
(1969–70)


Grenada
(1983)


Lebanon
(1983–84)


Libya
(1986)


El Salvador
(1980s)


Nicaragua
(1980s)


Iran
(1987)


Panama
(1989)


Iraq
(1991–2000)


Kuwait
(1991)


Somalia
(1993)


Bosnia
(1994–95)


Sudan
(1998)


Afghanistan
(1998)


Pakistan
(1998)


Yugoslavia
(1999)

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Macedonia
(1999)

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I don't agree with Obama's reverend when he said "G-d damn America" but I do agree with his rightful criticism of our nation's foreign policy. These are views that the late great Dr. King shared. The same Dr. King who's birthday is a national holiday once declared "America is the greatest perpetrator of violence in the world today".

This is only a reflection of us, the American People. (And this is supposed to be a so-called "Christian nation.")

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