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"I loved the Marine Corps and the spirit of its founding in 1775 as a
defense
against tyranny. As I began to understand the true nature of liberty, I
began to
question just what kind of "Teufelhunden" that this organization has
really
morphed into. No longer a shield against tyranny, it has become the abused
tip
of a spear to a racket for politicians and their special interests du
jour. In
approaching reenlistment there were two realizations that kept me from
signing
for a second term. First, was the realization that the U.S. Constitution
is a
dead and meaningless document. Second, was the realization of a heresy
that has
permeated modern American society for some time." Casey Khan 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/khan7.html
--
"We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would
instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab
world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-
day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless
hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla
war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever
greater instability."
-George H. W. Bush in his 1998
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R. David Steele wrote:
"I loved the Marine Corps and the spirit of its founding in 1775 as
a defense against tyranny. As I began to understand the true nature
of liberty, I began to question just what kind of "Teufelhunden"
that this organization has really morphed into. No longer a shield
against tyranny, it has become the abused tip of a spear to a racket
for politicians and their special interests du jour. In approaching
reenlistment there were two realizations that kept me from signing
for a second term. First, was the realization that the U.S.
Constitution is a dead and meaningless document. Second, was the
realization of a heresy that has permeated modern American society
for some time." Casey Khan 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/khan7.html
This country is not going to change just because of you. Wiser
men realize that nothing is perfect. It is only children who
think that life must be fair, that the rules actually mean
something.
We have too many people who have a wide range of expectations.
Our society is not living up to its best. We have become
selfish, self centered and childish. A nation of brats.
This young man's desire to opt out is his choice. But he sounds
little different than the young National Guardsman at Ft Lewis
who was just caught trying to hand information over to Islamic
extremists. BTW, he was a bit of militia type as well.
This country is slowly heading towards a civil war. This will be
a civil war that we will not recover from. It will destroy this
country, totally.
Good riddance to all the fascist scumbags that will be lost
in the purge ...
--
"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."
- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall
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enIsWhen wrote:
?????????????
You mean like Nixon's Wtergate and dirty tricks?
Spiro Agnews imitation of Joe McCarthy?
Reagan's ...........let's just nuke congress and start over...?
Reagan's (and Bush's) Iran/Contra?
Regan's Grenada?
Bush's Iraq?
Rush Limbaugh?
Ann Coulter?
Conservative bellowing "anti-american" at anyone who didn't kiss
Bush's post 9/11 ass?
Bush's lies about Iraq?
Or all these attrocities started be "left wing" administrations:
1948 - PRESENT
AMERICAN/ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
Estimated civilian deaths: 100,000 Palestinian people
From the very beginning of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948, One of the
earliest and most notorious incidents of Israeli terrorism was the Deir
Yassin massacre in April, 1948. 250 Palestinian men, women and children were
murdered in cold blood by Menachem Begin's Zionist "Irgun" group as it went
from house to house seeking to drive all Palestinians out of their ancient
homeland. It hasn't gotten any better since then.
Besides murdering women and children, Israelis routinely torture Palestinian
prisoners in jail. And almost all of it has been kept hidden by the
mainstream American mass-media for 55 years.
Just to give you another example of who the Israelis really are: in 1946,
Menachem Begin's terrorist organization blew up the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, murdering British nurses, in order to drive the British out of
Palestine. Israeli society later rewarded Menachem Begin by electing him
Prime Minister.
The United States government gives billions of your tax dollars to the
Israelis every year. And the U.S. government never pays people to do things
it doesn't want done. Israeli state terrorism is essentially American state
terrorism.
1953 - PRESENT
AMERICAN-BACKED GENOCIDE OF THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE
Estimated civilian deaths: over 200,000 people
From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum:
A CIA-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive
government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of military-government
death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions and unimaginable
cruelty, totaling more than 200,000 victims - indisputably one of the most
inhumane chapters of the 20th century.
The justification for the coup that has been put forth over the years is
that Guatemala had been on the verge of the proverbial Soviet takeover. In
actuality, the Russians had so little interest in the country that it didn't
even maintain diplomatic relations. The real problem was that Arbenz had
taken over some of the uncultivated land of the US firm, United Fruit
Company [Chiquita bananas], which had extremely close ties to the American
power elite.
Moreover, in the eyes of Washington, there was the danger of Guatemala's
social-democracy model spreading to other countries in Latin America.
Despite a 1996 "peace" accord between the government and rebels, respect for
human rights remains as only a concept in Guatemala; death squads continue
to operate with a significant measure of impunity against union activists
and other dissidents; torture still rears its ugly head; the lower classes
are as wretched as ever; the military endures as a formidable institution;
the US continues to arm and train the Guatemalan military and carry out
exercises with it; and key provisions of the peace accord concerning
military reform have not been carried out.
1955 - 1973
AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE
Estimated total civilian deaths: 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 people
Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American
client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including
assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret "carpet
bombings" of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in
1970. This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge
forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years
of American bombing had caused Cambodia's traditional economy to vanish. The
old Cambodia had been destroyed forever.
Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this
unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot
and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.
1957 - 1973
AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE LAOTIAN PEOPLE
Estimated total civilian deaths: over 500,000 people
The Laotian left, led by the Pathet Lao, tried to effect social change
peacefully, making significant electoral gains and taking part in coalition
governments. But the United States would have none of that.
The CIA and the State Department, through force, bribery and other
pressures, engineered coups in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Eventually, the only
option left for the Pathet Lao was armed force.
The CIA created its famous "Arme Clandestine" - totaling 30,000, from every
corner of Asia - to do battle, while the US Air Force, between 1965 and
1973, rained down more than two million tons of bombs upon the people of
Laos, many of whom were forced to live in caves for years in a desperate
attempt to escape the monsters falling from the sky.
After hundreds of thousands had been killed, many more maimed, and countless
bombed villages with hardly stone standing upon stone, the Pathet Lao took
control of the country, following on the heels of events in Vietnam.
MID-1950S, 1970-71
AMERICAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE ELECTED LEADER OF COSTA RICA
From Rogue State
by William Blum:
To liberal American political leaders, President Jose Figueres was the
quintessential "liberal
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rztalizer wrote:
"American subversion of Afghanistan, 1979-1992"? WTF??
I love the part about how we ruined Cuba all by ourselves LOL Just
precious.
keep em comin', Vox - yer a riot.
You forgot the rest, you sycophantic fascist bootlicker:
1948 - PRESENT
AMERICAN/ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
Estimated civilian deaths: 100,000 Palestinian people
From the very beginning of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948, One of the
earliest and most notorious incidents of Israeli terrorism was the Deir
Yassin massacre in April, 1948. 250 Palestinian men, women and children were
murdered in cold blood by Menachem Begin's Zionist "Irgun" group as it went
from house to house seeking to drive all Palestinians out of their ancient
homeland. It hasn't gotten any better since then.
Besides murdering women and children, Israelis routinely torture Palestinian
prisoners in jail. And almost all of it has been kept hidden by the
mainstream American mass-media for 55 years.
Just to give you another example of who the Israelis really are: in 1946,
Menachem Begin's terrorist organization blew up the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, murdering British nurses, in order to drive the British out of
Palestine. Israeli society later rewarded Menachem Begin by electing him
Prime Minister.
The United States government gives billions of your tax dollars to the
Israelis every year. And the U.S. government never pays people to do things
it doesn't want done. Israeli state terrorism is essentially American state
terrorism.
1953 - PRESENT
AMERICAN-BACKED GENOCIDE OF THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE
Estimated civilian deaths: over 200,000 people
From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum:
A CIA-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive
government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of military-government
death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions and unimaginable
cruelty, totaling more than 200,000 victims - indisputably one of the most
inhumane chapters of the 20th century.
The justification for the coup that has been put forth over the years is
that Guatemala had been on the verge of the proverbial Soviet takeover. In
actuality, the Russians had so little interest in the country that it didn't
even maintain diplomatic relations. The real problem was that Arbenz had
taken over some of the uncultivated land of the US firm, United Fruit
Company [Chiquita bananas], which had extremely close ties to the American
power elite.
Moreover, in the eyes of Washington, there was the danger of Guatemala's
social-democracy model spreading to other countries in Latin America.
Despite a 1996 "peace" accord between the government and rebels, respect for
human rights remains as only a concept in Guatemala; death squads continue
to operate with a significant measure of impunity against union activists
and other dissidents; torture still rears its ugly head; the lower classes
are as wretched as ever; the military endures as a formidable institution;
the US continues to arm and train the Guatemalan military and carry out
exercises with it; and key provisions of the peace accord concerning
military reform have not been carried out.
1955 - 1973
AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE
Estimated total civilian deaths: 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 people
Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American
client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including
assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret "carpet
bombings" of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in
1970. This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge
forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years
of American bombing had caused Cambodia's traditional economy to vanish. The
old Cambodia had been destroyed forever.
Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this
unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot
and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.
1957 - 1973
AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE LAOTIAN PEOPLE
Estimated total civilian deaths: over 500,000 people
The Laotian left, led by the Pathet Lao, tried to effect social change
peacefully, making significant electoral gains and taking part in coalition
governments. But the United States would have none of that.
The CIA and the State Department, through force, bribery and other
pressures, engineered coups in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Eventually, the only
option left for the Pathet Lao was armed force.
The CIA created its famous "Arme Clandestine" - totaling 30,000, from every
corner of Asia - to do battle, while the US Air Force, between 1965 and
1973, rained down more than two million tons of bombs upon the people of
Laos, many of whom were forced to live in caves for years in a desperate
attempt to escape the monsters falling from the sky.
After hundreds of thousands had been killed, many more maimed, and countless
bombed villages with hardly stone standing upon stone, the Pathet Lao took
control of the country, following on the heels of events in Vietnam.
MID-1950S, 1970-71
AMERICAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE ELECTED LEADER OF COSTA RICA
From Rogue State
by William Blum:
To liberal American political leaders, President Jose Figueres was the
quintessential "liberal democrat", the kind of statesman they liked to
think, and liked the world to think, was the natural partner of US foreign
policy rather than the military dictators who somehow kept popping up as
allies.
Yet the United States tried to overthrow Figueres (in the 1950s, and perhaps
also in the 1970s, when he was again president), and tried to assassinate
him twice. The reasons? Figueres was not tough enough on the left, led Costa
Rica to become the first country in Central America to establish diplomatic
relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and on occasion
questioned American foreign policy, like the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1959 - PRESENT
AMERICAN SUBVERSION AND STATE TERRORISM OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE
From Killing Hope
by William Blum:
Fidel Castro came to power at the beginning of 1959. A U.S. National
Security Council meeting of March 10, 1959 included on its agenda the
feasibility of bringing "another government to power in Cuba." There
followed 40 years of terrorist attacks, bombings, full-scale military
invasion, sanctions, embargoes, isolation, assassinations...Cuba had carried
out The Unforgivable Revolution, a very serious threat of setting a "good
example" in Latin America.
The saddest part of this is that the world will never know what kind of
society Cuba could have produced if left alone, if not constantly under the
gun and the threat of invasion, if allowed to relax its control at home. The
idealism, the vision, the talent were all there. Bu
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R. David Steele wrote:
"I loved the Marine Corps and the spirit of its founding in 1775
as a defense against tyranny. As I began to understand the true
nature of liberty, I began to question just what kind of
"Teufelhunden" that this organization has really morphed into. No
longer a shield against tyranny, it has become the abused tip of
a spear to a racket for politicians and their special interests
du jour. In approaching reenlistment there were two realizations
that kept me from signing for a second term. First, was the
realization that the U.S. Constitution is a dead and meaningless
document. Second, was the realization of a heresy that has
permeated modern American society for some time." Casey Khan 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/khan7.html
You didn't reenlist because you stopped believing. And that is
best for all concerned. You, the Military and the Civilians. I
stopped believing as well and tendered my retirement papers.
Doesn't make the Military wrong but you have to believe to stay at
it otherwise, just put the barrel in your mouth and squeeze.
NOPE. Most of those guys put a fifth a day down their throats,
destroy their families, their career, their lives and die a slow
death from alcoholism.
And don't, unfortunately, do a damn thing to disuade or disabuse the
Young and Dumb new recruits from falling for the Criminal Lies of
the Politicians that send them off to their deaths merely to protect
the Politicians $$ and power.
Except that few die these days, compared to Vietnam (27 per day
then due mostly to piss poor training). These kids are far
better trained than anything we have had in the history of the US
military.
Bull#@($, the ground combat fighters, or those caught in firefights,
are just a #@($pants scared and scattered, if not more, than those
combat hardened GIs from 'nam . Witness all the "Friendly Fire"
deaths in the Panama Invasion and Desert Storm I, and even now
that the U$ uses stand-off engagement, missiling and bombing from
ranges well beyound the victim country's capabilities of defense,
if they have any defense at all, there are still cases where these #@($pants
scared kids just fire at anything that moves, like Canadian Troops
on manouver in a designated allied zone, etc.
Especially that we send folks to JRTC and NTC (those
programs are a direct result of lessons learned from 'Nam).
Yeah, just what you want along side you in a firefight, some
book-trained Lt. ...
There is enough blame for both parties. The democrats are not
taking care of people either. And line their pockets as well.
Too many rich guys are now democrats for my tastes.
Wake up and smell the roses, while you were busy "serving" your
country, the rest of the country was getting wealthy on both sides
of the political spectrum. No one promissed you pawns that you'd
share in the wealth, did they? You went in for the "heroism" and "horon",
and the Wealthy White Men who sent you to kill/die to protect
their investment portfolios and power anointed you with those
soundbites, whilst keeping the gold you helped secure for themselves.
They may have even tossed you a few tin medals, but nothing
like the MILLION$ in cash they pay tyrants/crooks/theives/"enemies" for
such trivial information as target coordinates.
Both parties
are operated by the yuppies and controlled by the rich.
Yep, as class of people you, as volunteer pawn, helped
protect and enrich.
And the
extremists on both sides are filled with hate.
The extreme being anywhere left/right of center.
Just as we had
those who hated Clinton, we now have those who hate Bush.
Not quite, Bu$h is a far more dangerous, demonstrably so, moron
to be at the control than anyone in recent history.
At
some point we will have violence.
We deserve more violence.
I would also point that Bush is as liked by the military as
Clinton was disliked. To understand that, you have to understand
how skewed the right the military has become.
It's called fascism, nationalism ... same ingredients that did lead
30's Democratic Germany to the gates of hell.
--
"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."
- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall
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R. David Steele wrote:
This country is not going to change just because of you. Wiser
men realize that nothing is perfect. It is only children who
think that life must be fair, that the rules actually mean
something.
We have too many people who have a wide range of expectations.
Our society is not living up to its best. We have become
selfish, self centered and childish. A nation of brats.
This young man's desire to opt out is his choice. But he
sounds little different than the young National Guardsman at
Ft Lewis who was just caught trying to hand information over
to Islamic extremists. BTW, he was a bit of militia type as
well.
This country is slowly heading towards a civil war. This will
be a civil war that we will not recover from. It will destroy
this country, totally.
NOPE. I doubt there will be a civil war in my lifetime. We were
close in 1999, but we are far from that position now.
No, the right wing was about to fight. Now it is the left wing.
given the nasty and uncivilized behavior we are seeing, it is
just a matter of time until someone kills one of their "hated
enemy". The political passions are pushing aside reason, leaving
only hate.
So, are you suggesting a preemptive strike?
It would be "justified" under the neo-con Bu$h doctrine ... however
ironic.
Notice that Michael Moore was not arrested for attacking someone
while Novack was when he punched a heckler. Is that fair?
My suggest to you is that you carry a gun to back up your big
mouth.
Ah, yes, there it is, your true face.
doesn't it make sense that the anti gun left needs to carry far
more than you or I? After all they are the ones who shoot off
their big mouths then hide behind the 1st amendment like a school
girl hides behind the teacher when she pisses off the bullies.
The 2nd amendment is about protecting your 1st amendment rights,
after all.
Yep, and we just send naive dupes and pawns, ie. soldiers, off
to die to protect our right to say and do things that piss you off ...
No need for a gun if you can find some other fool with one
willing to fight/die at your command ... just ask the lying criminal
GW Bu$h and his Mob.
--
Patriotism was invented a few hundred years ago to persuade
the common people of the virtue of fighting to defend the wealthy and
corrupt elite in their society. It is just tribalism by another name, a con
trick which has worked ever since.
---Scott U.K.
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willing to fight/die at your command ... just ask the lying criminal
GW Bu$h and his Mob.
Am I the only one who wonders why these loons like to mispell names?
Anyway, I've decide to come up some of my own.
Dean(ial)
KKKerry (he is a white male after all)
Edward$ (with thanks to Vox for the inspiration)
Regards,
Jarg
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rztalizer wrote:
keep em comin', Vox - yer a riot.
You forgot the rest, you sycophantic fascist bootlicker:
Whose boots do I supposedly lick, you illiterate little noisy pup?
*Sycophantic* doesn't seem to appear in any dictionary that I can
find.
Try one without pictures...
As for Fascist - I am diametrically opposed to fascism,
particularly in my own country, but I fully support a world-wide ban
on it.
Now that's rich.
I don't support Bush, I support my country.
Nice soundbite ... meaningless and trite.
I have never supported
Bush, primarily due to his hand-in-glove attitude towards oil
companies and his dismissal of EPA standards.
In short, Vox, you assume I am something I am not - I disregard you
for reasons you apparently cannot comprehend but let me spell it out
for you: You are so convinced that everyone that thinks you are a
boob falls into a particular category, but the reality is that you
provide humor to a wide swath of folks that have nothing else in
common, except the awareness of how stupid you appear on newsgroups.
Glad your threshold of humor is so base ... like your level of intelligence.
<snip tons of irrelevent half-truths that disregard all the good our
country has done in the world in the past 60 years>
Reposted the uncomfortable facts and historical record
of U$ attrocities Gordy Boy hides from, which, BTW, is
exactly why 9/11 happened in the first place... good job
Gordy!
1948 - PRESENT
AMERICAN/ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
Estimated civilian deaths: 100,000 Palestinian people
From the very beginning of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948, One of the
earliest and most notorious incidents of Israeli terrorism was the Deir
Yassin massacre in April, 1948. 250 Palestinian men, women and children were
murdered in cold blood by Menachem Begin's Zionist "Irgun" group as it went
from house to house seeking to drive all Palestinians out of their ancient
homeland. It hasn't gotten any better since then.
Besides murdering women and children, Israelis routinely torture Palestinian
prisoners in jail. And almost all of it has been kept hidden by the
mainstream American mass-media for 55 years.
Just to give you another example of who the Israelis really are: in 1946,
Menachem Begin's terrorist organization blew up the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, murdering British nurses, in order to drive the British out of
Palestine. Israeli society later rewarded Menachem Begin by electing him
Prime Minister.
The United States government gives billions of your tax dollars to the
Israelis every year. And the U.S. government never pays people to do things
it doesn't want done. Israeli state terrorism is essentially American state
terrorism.
1953 - PRESENT
AMERICAN-BACKED GENOCIDE OF THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE
Estimated civilian deaths: over 200,000 people
From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum:
A CIA-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive
government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of military-government
death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions and unimaginable
cruelty, totaling more than 200,000 victims - indisputably one of the most
inhumane chapters of the 20th century.
The justification for the coup that has been put forth over the years is
that Guatemala had been on the verge of the proverbial Soviet takeover. In
actuality, the Russians had so little interest in the country that it didn't
even maintain diplomatic relations. The real problem was that Arbenz had
taken over some of the uncultivated land of the US firm, United Fruit
Company [Chiquita bananas], which had extremely close ties to the American
power elite.
Moreover, in the eyes of Washington, there was the danger of Guatemala's
social-democracy model spreading to other countries in Latin America.
Despite a 1996 "peace" accord between the government and rebels, respect for
human rights remains as only a concept in Guatemala; death squads continue
to operate with a significant measure of impunity against union activists
and other dissidents; torture still rears its ugly head; the lower classes
are as wretched as ever; the military endures as a formidable institution;
the US continues to arm and train the Guatemalan military and carry out
exercises with it; and key provisions of the peace accord concerning
military reform have not been carried out.
1955 - 1973
AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE
Estimated total civilian deaths: 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 people
Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American
client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including
assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret "carpet
bombings" of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in
1970. This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge
forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years
of American bombing had caused Cambodia's traditional economy to vanish. The
old Cambodia had been destroyed forever.
Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this
unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot
and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.
1957 - 1973
AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE LAOTIAN PEOPLE
Estimated total civilian deaths: over 500,000 people
The Laotian left, led by the Pathet Lao, tried to effect social change
peacefully, making significant electoral gains and taking part in coalition
governments. But the United States would have none of that.
The CIA and the State Department, through force, bribery and other
pressures, engineered coups in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Eventually, the only
option left for the Pathet Lao was armed force.
The CIA created its famous "Arme Clandestine" - totaling 30,000, from every
corner of Asia - to do battle, while the US Air Force, between 1965 and
1973, rained down more than two million tons of bombs upon the people of
Laos, many of whom were forced to live in caves for years in a desperate
attempt to escape the monsters falling from the sky.
After hundreds of thousands had been killed, many more maimed, and countless
bombed villages with hardly stone standing upon stone, the Pathet Lao took
control of the country, following on the heels of events in Vietnam.
MID-1950S, 1970-71
AMERICAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE ELECTED LEADER OF COSTA RICA
From Rogue State
by William Blum:
To liberal American political leaders, President Jose Figueres was the
quintessential "liberal democrat", the kind of statesman they liked to
think, and liked the world to think, was the natural partner of US foreign
policy rather than the military dictators who somehow kept popping up as
allies.
Yet the United States tried to overthrow
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