The various dictators the US has installed. - Hey, lets reme

[Klondike]

Hey you guys and girls remember all those dictators that America installed (ie Greece, Chile, Brazil)? Well I thought that since they are taking one of the very dictators they installed (America removing Saddam), we might as well remember all the others they helped and supported.

THANKS UNCLE SA(DDA)M!!!!

[Sabocat]

South Vietnam - Diem
Guatemala - Castillo Armas -Efrain Rios Montt

[Charred Phoenix]

The beauty of it is that every time they set people up to attack them, they bring themselves one step closer to their demise.

[synthesis]

Ah, this is my domain :biggrin:

-Right-wing death squads in Colombia
-Mobutu Sese Soku in the Congo/Zaire
-Rios Montt and other Guatemalan barbarians
-The Aristide Dynasty in Haiti
-The Taliban (essentially)
-General Suharto in Indonesia
-Several military dictatorships in the Dominican Republic
-The Shah of Iran
-Pol Pot (again, a bit of a truncation, but this is essentially his past)

There really are far too many to list.

[synthesis]

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstatete...gyofTerror.html (http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html)

[Palmares]

Pinochet (RIP Allende)...

[Charred Phoenix]

Before we continue, how much hard drive space does this server have? :cheesy:

(Edited by Charred Phoenix at 6:57 am on April 10, 2003)

[notyetacommie]

What is REALLY funny, is that there hasn't been a single objection from a single right-winger. Are they ashamed and about to change their minds?
I would really love to see what Liberty Lover has to say about the human nature of capitalism and Western style democracy with respect to this issue.

[Invader Zim]

You have all forgotten Batista, apparently he like a bit of torture in the mornings, before the days executions.

[Liberty Lover]

How many of these dictatorships were installed by George W. Bush? None. So they are as relevant today as the Mongol invasion of Russia in the 13th century is.

By the way, America did not install Pol Pot. The US backed capitalist government of Lon Nol was in power when the Khmer Rouge marched on Phon Penh.

[Show me the Money]

H Bush was in the CIA at least before the murder of guevara-- he lead numurous foreign atrocities.

Scotty.

[革命者]

i second that! :biggrin:

[apathy maybe]

It doesn't matter how many were installed by Bush or any other pres. They were all installed by the same corrupt system ruled by the same plutocracy. it is relevant and will continue to be until the system is changed.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

as relevent as the mongol ivasions? Mongolia is no longer an empire, is it? But America is still going strong. It is very relevent, because America's imperialistic tendemcies have not changed, the system stands, with no opposition, see a problem?

[Klondike]

Hey guys/gals, I just dug up an interesting little fact that you all might like to know, DUBYA'S GRANDFATHER HAD DEALINGS WITH THE NAZIS! I'll show you the anecdote as I found it:

*During the late 1930's and through the 1940's, Prescott Bush, George I's father and W's grandfather, was one of seven directors in the Union Banking Corporation, owned by Nazi industrialists. After filtering their money through a Dutch bank, they hid an estimated $3 million in Bush's bank. As a principal player, its unlikely that Bush would have been unaware of the Nazi connection. The government eventually seized the assets and the bank dissolved in 1951, after wich Prescott Bush-and his father, Sam Bush-received $1.5 million.

[dopediana]

ah yes, actually we were talking about this issue today in ap us history class, concerning the 70s. the teacher is a staunch republican. and i love to indirectly diss her. so i brought up all the evils of batista and all the improvements castro made and about what a bad dude diem was.

cowed yet another day. booyah

[j]

Batista was backed by the US? I thought his military coup ended America's ability to intervene in Cuba when it wanted to?

When Fidel invaded, I believe the US did not know who to back. They were not positive that Fidel had communist ideals. I don't think the US liked Batista either and welcomed reform in the name of US interests. However, when Fidel was classified as a communist the US went staunchly against him. This is my understanding...any thoughts?

But the rest of that list (with the possible exception of pol pot) is pretty accurate.

And I agree that it is very relevent. It is relevent because it is history and we learn from history. On the same token, how many non-dictator governments has the US set up?

j

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

when will they learn, or better yet, when will we learn to stop taking all their shit!?

The world must learn resistnce towrads America's imperialistic acts of terror, yeah, that's right, terror!

[synthesis]

When Fidel invaded, I believe the US did not know who to back.

No, that isn't true.

http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subje...-pigs/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/bay-of-pigs/index.htm)