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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 [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=confirmed-the-us-census-b&sc=I100322 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.

Revision as of 19:53, 8 April 2010

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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.

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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)
  • 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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