Some Fun Facts About America<====
I have been debating whether to post this thread for a long time now. Finally last night I decided I should, if for no other reason my intentions are to provide us all with little known tidbits of America's history. I still love my country, all I am trying to do is present all sides of an issue which most american's ignore. Some because they just dont know about these things -although i dont see how thats possible...history is essential knowledge- others because they conveniently choose to forget them. Well, I hope I dont receive too much flak for this as I am sure I may, but here you go. and i hope this doesnt get deleted...
1953 - The United States overthrows Prime Minister Mossadq of Iran
- U.S. installs Shah as dictator
1954 - The United States overthrows the DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED president Arbenz of Guatemala.
- 200,000 civilians killed
1963 - United States backs the assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975 - American military kills 4 MILLION people in Southeast Asia
Septembet 11, 1973 - The United States stages coup in Chile. The Democratically-Elected president Salvador Allende is assassinated.
- DICTATOR Augusto Pinochet is installed
- 5,000 Chileans murdered
1977 - United States backs military rulers of El Salvador
- 70,000 Slavadorans and 4 American nuns are killed.
1980's - United States TRAINS OSAMA BIN LADEN and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets.
- CIA gives them $3 billion (more than they give our schools)
1981 - The Reagan administration trains and funds 'contras.'
- 30,000 nicaraguans die
1982 - United States 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.
- US invades Panama and removes Noriega
- 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
1991 - US enters Iraq
- Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait
1998 - Clinton bombs 'Weapons factory' in Sudan
- Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991 Through the Present day - American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
-UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions
2000 through 2001 - US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in 'Aid'
September 11, 2001 - Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.
just some things to consider....
Re: Some Fun Facts About America<====
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and i hope this doesnt get deleted...
I sincerely hope that it does not, and if it were to become the case, I can say quite unequivocally, and with all of the utmost due respect to the job that the mods perform, that it would be the first (and likely only) time I would feel ashamed of being a member here, or more correctly, ashamed of the board's policies.
Re: Some Fun Facts About America<====
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Originally posted by symatech
, I hope I don't receive too much flak for this as I am sure I may, but here you go. and i hope this doesn't get deleted...
:dg:
I hope you truly didn't worry about this getting deleted? The only reason that would happen is if the flaming got out of hand in here. I think most of us are mature enough to discuss this.
Most everyone knows that I support my country and my presidents (except for the damn liberal ones :lol: ) . However I agree that most of these did in fact happen. Yes we have made a few mistakes but we have helped far more countries than we hurt.
Where does most of the humanitarian aid in the world come from? When we dropped the H-bombs ( the fact that we dropped it is another debate) on Japan, who rebuilt Japan to be an even bigger tech power than we are. Who rebuilt Germany after the war? Who sent aid to starving in Somalia? Who stopped the genocide time and time again? When a natural disaster occur who do countries around the world turn to for aid? The US thats who!