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Overview

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

Agreed Items

• two centuries of slavery
• a further century of apartheid (Jim Crow laws, separate but equal...)
• the genocide of the American Indians

To Be Researched

• 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]
• starting two wars with Mexico
• Spanish-American war
• conquest of the Philippines
• conquest of the Sandwich Islands
• overthrowing the Mossadeq government
• training the Savak
• overthrowing the Arbenz government
• overthrowing the Allende government
• killing three million Vietnamese (see Vietnam War)
• supplying the PKI's membership list to our new puppet government so that a half million Indonesians could be killed
• supplying the Indonesian government weapons so that they could invade and terrorize East-Timor for twenty years
• training death squads and torturers at the school of the Americas
• financing and training the Contras in Nicaragua
• financing and training the death squads in El Salvador
• overthrowing the Aristide government - twice
• attempting to overthrow the Chavez government (Venezuela)