Reply #67: so,I can put you down as supporting the invasion of Saudi Arabia (instead of selling them 80 Billion [View All]

[stockholmer]

plus in arms), invasion of Bahrain (now they are truly progressive, they get the Saudis to come over the bridge and slaughter a couple thousand of their protestors), Venezuela (why, because he is a COMMIE, the neo-cons told me so), Israel (those pesky Palestinains just ask to be slaughtered, so I guess we can take Israel off this list), Indonesia, Thailand, Mynamar, North Korea (ooopsie, they have NUKES, no can do), etc etc, plus the big one, China (well, maybe not, as where would you shop if WalMart cheap-death goods are gone).


here are some of the past/present US-backed 'champions of liberty', dont they just give you a warm-fuzzy feelin!


Chile Gen. Augusto Pinochet 1973-1990 3000 murdered. 400,000 tortured.

Argentina Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla 1976-1981 30,000 murdered.

Indonesia Suharto 1965 coup against left-leaning Sukarno, 1975 support of East Timor genocide 500,000 dead after 1965 coup; 100,000-230,000 dead in East Timor; more, more, more.

Guatemala Armas, Fuentes, Montt
Iran The Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini was on the CIA payroll in the 1970s in Paris

Egypt Sadat, Mubarak 1978-2011

Iraq Saddam Hussein

Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza & sons 1937-1979

Paraguay Stroessner. US supported throughout (state.gov says US has supported Paraguayan development since 1942) ($142M between 1962 and 1975) 1954-1989

Bolivia Col. Hugo Banzer overthrew elected leftist president Juan Jose Torres 1970-

Angola Jonas Savimbi/UNITA (didn't actually win his revolution, but killed or displaced millions) 1975-1989

Zaire Mobutu

Kuwait a monarchy

Morocco

Tunisia

Algeria

Jordan

Panama Noriega was US-supported for years till he got greedy with CAI drug money

Haiti Papa Doc, Baby Doc (Baby Doc is BACK, of happy days!)

Dominican Republic Trujillo, a military dictator for 32 years with US support for most of that time; Belaguer, Trujillo's protege, installed after US Marines intervened to put down an attempt to restore the democratically elected government of Juan Bosch 1930-61, 1965-78

Honduras

El Salvador 1980s

Nepal monarchy since 1948

Cuba Fulgencio Batista pre-Castro

Brazil Gen. Branco overthrew elected president Goulart with US support 1965-67

Uzbekistan Kamirov "The Boiler", $150M from the Bush administration for an air base.

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I guess put me down as a moron, for believing in the principle of self determination for a nation-state's people.