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==About==
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This page is about ways in which the [[US]] has behaved dishonorably.
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This page is about stains on America's [[honor]]. Those who either care about America or who claim to represent America's interests must learn from these lessons and prevent the mistakes of the past from being repeated.
 
 
==The List==
 
==The List==
 
===Agreed Items===
 
===Agreed Items===
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* a further century of [[apartheid]] ([[Jim Crow]] laws, [[separate but equal]]...)
 
* a further century of [[apartheid]] ([[Jim Crow]] laws, [[separate but equal]]...)
 
* [[Japanese American internment|internment of Japanese-descended American citizens]] during [[World War II]]
 
* [[Japanese American internment|internment of Japanese-descended American citizens]] during [[World War II]]
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** the round-up was [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-census-b/ apparently aided by confidential census information]
 
* the [[genocide of the American Indians]]
 
* the [[genocide of the American Indians]]
 
** [[Indian Removal Act]]
 
** [[Indian Removal Act]]
 
* [[McCarthyism]]
 
* [[McCarthyism]]
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These items also fall into the category of [[American imperialism]], something which [[US conservatism|conservatives]] generally deny exists.
 
These items also fall into the category of [[American imperialism]], something which [[US conservatism|conservatives]] generally deny exists.
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** "There is another way for the bloodshed to stop: And that is, for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside and then comply with the United Nations' resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations." -- GHWB, {{date|1991-02-15}}, on the Voice of America; sources: [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/05/cp.00.html CNN], [[google:cache:traprockpeace.org/scr1441hurd.doc+%22There+is+another+way+for+the+bloodshed+to+stop|here]],  [[google:cache:mondediplo.com/2004/11/02iraq+%22There+is+another+way+for+the+bloodshed+to+stop|here]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=r01JOuwdf2oC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=%22there+is+another+way+for+the+bloodshed+to+stop+and+that+is+for+the+iraqi+military%22&source=web&ots=GYW0RodERI&sig=KzaFf5YfvySCEojYnsgW1k8kT9s here], [http://blog.neo-libertarian.com/posts/1174764633.shtml here], and {{wikipedia|1991 uprisings in Iraq}} but mysteriously missing from the [http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?year=1991&month=2 George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library archives for Feb. 1991] (a [http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?submit=Search&search=Voice+of+America search for "Voice of America"] also does not find it).
 
** "There is another way for the bloodshed to stop: And that is, for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside and then comply with the United Nations' resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations." -- GHWB, {{date|1991-02-15}}, on the Voice of America; sources: [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/05/cp.00.html CNN], [[google:cache:traprockpeace.org/scr1441hurd.doc+%22There+is+another+way+for+the+bloodshed+to+stop|here]],  [[google:cache:mondediplo.com/2004/11/02iraq+%22There+is+another+way+for+the+bloodshed+to+stop|here]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=r01JOuwdf2oC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=%22there+is+another+way+for+the+bloodshed+to+stop+and+that+is+for+the+iraqi+military%22&source=web&ots=GYW0RodERI&sig=KzaFf5YfvySCEojYnsgW1k8kT9s here], [http://blog.neo-libertarian.com/posts/1174764633.shtml here], and {{wikipedia|1991 uprisings in Iraq}} but mysteriously missing from the [http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?year=1991&month=2 George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library archives for Feb. 1991] (a [http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?submit=Search&search=Voice+of+America search for "Voice of America"] also does not find it).
 
** further reading: ''The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'' by Robert Fisk [http://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Conquest-Middle/dp/1400075173/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4630502-8796617 Amazon] (unchecked; submitted by 3rd party)
 
** further reading: ''The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'' by Robert Fisk [http://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Conquest-Middle/dp/1400075173/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4630502-8796617 Amazon] (unchecked; submitted by 3rd party)
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* '''1954''': {{l/wp|1954 Guatemalan coup d'&eacute;tat}} "a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, it installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed [[authoritarian]] rulers in Guatemala."
 
* '''1953''': Overthrowing the [[democratic]]ally-elected leader of [[Iran]], [[Mohammed Mosaddeq]] (or Mosaddegh or Mossadegh), and replacing him with a compliant monarch (the Shah), because we wanted more control over Iranian oil
 
* '''1953''': Overthrowing the [[democratic]]ally-elected leader of [[Iran]], [[Mohammed Mosaddeq]] (or Mosaddegh or Mossadegh), and replacing him with a compliant monarch (the Shah), because we wanted more control over Iranian oil
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** '''2013-04-18''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/04/17/the-boston-bombing-and-self-awareness/ The Boston Bombing and Self-Awareness]
 
=====To Be Researched=====
 
=====To Be Researched=====
 
* starting two wars with Mexico
 
* starting two wars with Mexico
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* '''2020-03-20''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20200921005437/https://jakimfett.com/status-report/maga-no-america-was-never-great/ America Was Never Great]
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* [http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html FROM WOUNDED KNEE TO IRAQ: A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS] by Dr. Zoltan Grossman: not all of these were dishonorable, but certainly many of them were -- and all probably qualify as US "chickens coming home to roost"
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* '''2016-08-28''' [https://theintercept.com/2016/08/28/colin-kaepernick-is-righter-than-you-know-the-national-anthem-is-a-celebration-of-slavery/ Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery] ([https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CindyBrown/posts/jZBUxNBcMk4 via])
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* '''2008-08-14''' [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/15/567667/-The-Great-California-Genocide The Great California Genocide]
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Latest revision as of 16:04, 17 October 2022

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This page is about ways in which the US has behaved dishonorably.

The List

Agreed Items

domestic

foreign

These items also fall into the category of American imperialism, something which conservatives generally deny exists.

  • George H.W. Bush urging Iraqi Shiites to rise up against Saddam Hussein with the promise that we were "on our way" and would protect them, and then backing off – thus allowing Saddam to murder almost a million of his own people (while our own General Schwarzkopf pleaded for just 12 more hours to reach Basra) [1]
    • "There is another way for the bloodshed to stop: And that is, for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside and then comply with the United Nations' resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations." -- GHWB, 1991-02-15, on the Voice of America; sources: CNN, here, here, here, here, and Wikipedia but mysteriously missing from the George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library archives for Feb. 1991 (a search for "Voice of America" also does not find it).
    • further reading: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk Amazon (unchecked; submitted by 3rd party)
  • 1954: 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état "a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, it installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala."
  • 1953: Overthrowing the democratically-elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq (or Mosaddegh or Mossadegh), and replacing him with a compliant monarch (the Shah), because we wanted more control over Iranian oil
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