US-sponsored Murderous Dictatorships:

A List

How many murderous dictatorships has the US installed or supported?

Let's count.

Country Dictator Dates Statistics Chile Gen. Augusto Pinochet 1973-1990 3000 murdered. 400,000 tortured. Argentina Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla 1976-1981 30,000 murdered. more Indonesia Suharto 1965 coup against left-leaning Sukarno,

1975 support of East Timor genocide

500,000 dead after 1965 coup; 100,000-230,000 dead in East Timor; more, more, more. Guatemala Armas, Fuentes, Montt 1954- 200,000 killed or missing (wikipedia) Iran The Shah of Iran 1954-1979 e.g., 25000-50000 political prisoners in 1975 alone (Amnesty Int'l) (Ayatollah Khomeini was on the CIA payroll in the 1970s in Paris.) Egypt Sadat, Mubarak 1978-today Iraq Saddam Hussein Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza & sons 1937-1979 Paraguay Stroessner. US supported throughout (state.gov says US has supported Paraguayan development since 1942) ($142M between 1962 and 1975) 1954-1989 Bolivia Col. Hugo Banzer overthrew elected leftist president Juan Jose Torres 1970- Angola Jonas Savimbi/UNITA (didn't actually win his revolution, but killed or displaced millions) 1975-1989 Zaire Mobutu Saudi Arabia Saud family Kuwait a monarchy Morocco Tunisia Algeria Jordan Panama Noriega was US-supported for years Haiti Papa Doc, Baby Doc Dominican Republic Trujillo, a military dictator for 32 years with US support for most of that time; Belaguer, Trujillo's protege, installed after US Marines intervened to put down an attempt to restore the democratically elected government of Juan Bosch 1930-61, 1965-78 Honduras El Salvador 1980s Nepal monarchy since 1948 Cuba Fulgencio Batista pre-Castro Brazil Gen. Branco overthrew elected president Goulart with US support 1965-67 Uzbekistan Kamirov "The Boiler", $150M from the Bush administration for an air base. 1965-67

There are some gaps of information there. If you know any details that could help fill the gaps, let me know, it would be much appreciated.

So I count 25. Rough numbers, let's not be picky.

I barely have 25 people in my pingpong club, we're talking 25 countries.

Now that's a bleeping crime.

So who's responsible? I am an American: I am responsible.

So what am I going to do about it? I'm going to be an American, and express myself, with attitude, about what I do and don't like in this world, and tell everyone what I think has got to be done. So keep on reading.

And you? Be an American too: make up your own mind, persuade yourself, and try to persuade the rest of them. Talk leads to action, so talk!