I'm taking this memorial day to remember the many victims of United States Terrorism

[PretzelWarrior]

from wiping out Native Americans to lynching African slaves and their African American descendants.

From Vietnamese to El Salvadorans. From peasants in Nicaragua to civilians in Iraq.

May they be remembered as the martyrs of capitalism and democracy this great empire has brought the world.

[knowbody0]

1. I share your heavy burden

and am sad deep in my soul from it.

[Old Hank]

2. And the Marines who invaded Dominican Republic for electing a Socialist President

in 1965.

They successfully installed a right-wing President instead (Joaquin Balaguer):

Casualty count: 13 US soldiers dead. 2000 Dominican civilian and soldiers killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack#Casualties

[PretzelWarrior]

3. and the beat goes on. Guatemala. Chile, Argentina.

The U.S. has played in it's own back yard quite a bit at the behest of its owner class such as family businesses and later corporations who need U.S. military and political/spy intervention to destabilize nascent people-powered movements.

The U.S. has a lot to answer for the world over in human toll.

[LooseWilly]

4. And the undermining of Mossadeqh to install the Shah, and training of Savak...

Which led Iran from a free and Parliamentary government, through despotism, and eventually, many victims of a US trained & supplied secret police service later, to an intolerant Theocracy....

[boppers]

5. A link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terrorism

[PretzelWarrior]

6. thanks for the link. powerful when seen all together

I'm sure there's even more. But as we see....there's a curious focus on areas in the middle east because of our unending thirst for oil...and then the Latin American countries the U.S. and it's corporations have exploited for so many generations.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

7. K & R Thank you for this, PW! n/t