A History of US Imperialism

1953 - US overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran. US installs Shah as dictator.
1954 - US overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.
1963 - US backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975 - American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.
September 11, 1973 - US stages coup in Chile. Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.
1977 - US backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.
1980's - US trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.
1981 - Reagan administration trains and funs "contras." 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982 - US provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983 - White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1989 - CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. US invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from US.
1991 - US enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
1998 - Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991 to present - American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
2000-01 - US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."
September 11, 2001 - Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.