![]() ![]() sponsored brutal coup that resulted in the deaths of over 70,000 Iranians from 1952-1979. I was reminded of the horror I felt when I learned about how the Shah of Iran was installed in a U.S. Bush’s CIA partner, now turned enemy, Manual Noriega. invaded Panama over the Christmas season of 1989 and killed over 8,000 in an attempt to capture George H. I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt as the U.S. sponsored terror war against the peoples of southern Africa (especially Angola) that began in the 1970’s and continues to this day and has resulted in the deaths and mutilations of over 1,000,000. I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during the U.S. war against the people of El Salvador in the 1980s, which resulted in the brutal deaths of over 80,000 people, or »soft targets«. I was reminded of being horrified by the U. government used to call them before the term »collateral damage« was invented–»soft targets«). government a war criminal in 1984 for the mining of the harbors) against Nicaragua in the 1980s which resulted in the deaths of over 30,000 innocent people or as the U.S. sponsored terrorist contra war (the World Court declared the U.S. ![]() sponsored a coup in Indonesia that resulted in the murder of over 800,000 people, and the subsequent slaughter in 1975 of over 250,000 innocent people in East Timor by the Indonesian regime with the direct complicity of President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissenger. Last Tuesday’s events reminded me of the shock and horror I felt in 1965 when the U.S. Government of Salvador Allende and helped to murder another 30,000 people, including U.S. sponsored a coup in Chile against the democratic And it reminded me of the shock I felt in 1973, when the U.S. overthrew the governments of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and helped to murder 3,000 people. Last Tuesday’s events reminded me of the horror I felt when the U.S. installed dictatorships over the course of four decades. sponsored coup against democracy in Guatemala in 1954 which resulted in the deaths of over 120,000 Guatemalan peasants by U.S. Over the course of my life I have been shocked and horrified by a variety of U.S. ![]() I continue to be horrified by the sanctions on Iraq, which have resulted in the death of over 1,000,000 Iraqis, including over 500,000 children, about whom former Secretary of State Madeline Allbright has stated that their deaths »are worth the cost«. pilots literally shot in the back retreating Iraqi civilians and soldiers. This includes the infamous »highway of death« in the last days of the slaughter when U.S. I had not been that shocked and horrified since January 16, 1991, when then President Bush attacked Baghdad, and the rest of Iraq and began killing 200,000 people during that »war« (slaughter). Like all Americans, on Tuesday, 9-11, I was shocked and horrified to watch the WTC Twin Towers attacked by hijacked planes and collapse, resulting in the deaths of perhaps up to 10,000 innocent people. ![]()
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