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1953:
* U.S overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran.
* U.S then installs Shah as dictator.
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1954:
* U.S overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala.
* 200,000 civilians killed during the process.
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1963:
* U.S backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975:
* U.S military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.
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September 11, 1973:
* U.S stages coup in Chile.
* Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated.
* Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed.
* At least 5000 Chileans murdered.
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1977:
* U.S backs military rulers of El Salvador.
* 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.
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1980's:
* U.S trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets.
* The C.I.A gives them $3 billion.
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1981:
* Reagan administration trains and funds the "Contras".
* 30,000 Nicaraguans are killed.
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1982:
* U.S provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
* White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
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1989:
* C.I.A agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington.
* U.S invades Panama and removes Noriega.
* 3,000 Panamanian civilian deaths.
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1990:
* Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
* U.S invades Iraq.
* Bush (the old one) reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
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1998:
* Clinton bombs alleged "Weapons Factory" in Sudan.
* "Weapons Factory" turns out to be making Aspirin.
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1991 to present:
* American & British planes bomb Iraq on a near-weekly basis.
* United Nations estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
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2000-01:
* U.S gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."
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September 11, 2001:
* Osama bin Laden uses his expert C.I.A training to murder 3000 people in New York.