Text 3834, 166 rader
Skriven 2010-01-27 14:03:17 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
   Kommentar till text 3827 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Re: Fox stoops even lower
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BA> The US does seem to have a propensity to conquer countries the
BA> administration in power doesn't like.  Among them Hawaii, Guatemala
BA> and Haiti (several times, including the current military occupation under
BA> the guise of humanitarian aid) and Serbia, not to mention Iraq.
 
In about 120 years the US has performed at least 145 military interventions
costing millions of civilian lives.
 
An interesting detail is that a large number of Congressional Medals of Honor
were awarded for the 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee while
Chemical Ali was hanged for gassing Kurds.
 
The list:
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SOUTH DAKOTA   1890 (-?)
ARGENTINA      1890
CHILE          1891
HAITI          1891
IDAHO          1892
HAWAII         1893 (-?)
CHICAGO        1894
NICARAGUA      1894
CHINA          1894-95
KOREA          1894-96
PANAMA         1895
NICARAGUA      1896
CHINA          1898-1900
PHILIPPINES    1898-1910 (-?)
CUBA           1898-1902 (-?)
PUERTO RICO    1898 (-?)
GUAM           1898 (-?)
MINNESOTA      1898 (-?)
NICARAGUA      1898
SAMOA          1899 (-?)
NICARAGUA      1899
IDAHO          1899-1901
OKLAHOMA       1901
PANAMA         1901-14
HONDURAS       1903
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1903-04
KOREA          1904-05
CUBA           1906-09
NICARAGUA      1907
HONDURAS       1907
PANAMA         1908
NICARAGUA      1910
HONDURAS       1911
CHINA          1911-41
CUBA           1912
PANAMA         1912
HONDURAS       1912
NICARAGUA      1912-33
MEXICO         1913
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1914
COLORADO       1914
MEXICO         1914-18
HAITI          1914-34
TEXAS          1915
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1916-24
CUBA           1917-33
WORLD WAR I    1917-18
RUSSIA         1918-22
PANAMA         1918-20
HONDURAS       1919
YUGOSLAVIA     1919
GUATEMALA      1920
WEST VIRGINIA  1920-21
TURKEY         1922
CHINA          1922-27
HONDURAS       1924-25
PANAMA         1925
CHINA          1927-34
EL SALVADOR    1932
WASHINGTON DC  1932
WORLD WAR II   1941-45
DETROIT        1943
IRAN           1946
YUGOSLAVIA     1946
URUGUAY        1947
GREECE         1947-49
GERMANY        1948
CHINA          1948-49
PHILIPPINES    1948-54
PUERTO RICO    1950
KOREA          1951-53 (-?)
IRAN           1953
VIETNAM        1954
GUATEMALA      1954
EGYPT          1956
LEBANON        l958
IRAQ           1958
CHINA          l958
PANAMA         1958
VIETNAM        l960-75
CUBA           l961
GERMANY        l961
LAOS           1962
CUBA           l962
IRAQ           1963
PANAMA         l964
INDONESIA      l965
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66
GUATEMALA      l966-67
DETROIT        l967
UNITED STATES  l968
CAMBODIA       l969-75
OMAN           l970
LAOS           l971-73
SOUTH DAKOTA   l973
MIDEAST        1973
CHILE          1973
CAMBODIA       l975
ANGOLA         l976-92
IRAN           l980
LIBYA          l981
EL SALVADOR    l981-92
NICARAGUA      l981-90
LEBANON        l982-84
GRENADA        l983-84
HONDURAS       l983-89
IRAN           l984
LIBYA          l986
BOLIVIA        1986
IRAN           l987-88
LIBYA          1989
VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989
PHILIPPINES    1989
PANAMA         1989 (-?)
LIBERIA        1990
SAUDI ARABIA   1990-91
IRAQ           1990-91
KUWAIT         1991
IRAQ           1991-2003
LOS ANGELES    1992
SOMALIA        1992-94
YUGOSLAVIA     1992-94
BOSNIA         1993-?
HAITI          1994
ZAIRE (CONGO)  1996-97
LIBERIA        1997
ALBANIA        1997
SUDAN          1998
AFGHANISTAN    1998
IRAQ           1998
YUGOSLAVIA     1999
YEMEN          2000
MACEDONIA      2001
UNITED STATES  2001
AFGHANISTAN    2001-?
YEMEN          2002
PHILIPPINES    2002-?
COLOMBIA       2003-?
IRAQ           2003-?
LIBERIA        2003
HAITI          2004-05
PAKISTAN       2005-?
SOMALIA        2006-?
SYRIA          2008
YEMEN          2009
 
 
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--- D'Bridge 3.36
 * Origin: Many Glacier -- "The Lord of the Pings" (2:292/854)