1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran and
installs the Shah as dictator.
1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Jacobo
Arbenz of Guatemala at the behest of multinational United Fruit
Company. 200,000 civilians are killed. (Read about it.)
1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President
Diem.
1963-1975: Vietnam war, American military kills 4 million people in
Southeast Asia.
September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile to assassinate
democratically-elected President Salvador Allende and install
Dictator Augusto Pinochet. 5,000 Chileans are murdered.
1977: U.S. backs military rulers in El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans
and four American nuns are killed.
1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill
Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.
1981: Reagan administration covertly trains and funds "contras."
30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons
to kill Iranians.
1983: White House covertly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1989: CIA agent and Panamanian President Manuel Noriega disobeys
orders from Washington. U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega.
3,000 Panamanian civilians die.
1991: U.S. invades Iraq after Iraq invades Kuwait using American
weaponry. Kuwaiti dictator is reinstated.
1998: President Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan which
later turns out to be an aspirin factory.
1991-2003: U.S. military aircraft bomb Iraq on a weekly basis and
almost unilaterally imposes economic sanctions. U.N. estimates
500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and economic sanctions.
Economic sanctions are illegal under the U.N. Charter to which the
United States is a signatory state. Currently, the U.S. is still
occupying Iraq.
2000-2001: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in
"aid."
