WHY THEY HATE US

The real reason "WHY THEY HATE US."

This question has appeared in countless news stories and press releases about "terrorists, "insurgents" and those "radical Muslims" who supposedly hate us and nobody has ever addressed the question as to why "they" hate us or figured out why 9/11 happened.

"They"............ are the people or governments with whom the United States has interfered, since the early 1900s. The U.S. government has a long and documented history of sponsoring internal revolts, civil wars and genocides in many

countries whose sovereign political ideologies differ from the United States............................ and of course they must have exploitable natural resources.

After reading the most blatant historical facts, walk a mile in their shoes and it will be a little easier to see "why they hate us."

Starting with our neighbors to the South -

El Salvador - Some 75,000 people were killed by U.S.-backed death squads in El Salvador. 1934, El Salvador - US troops prevented a strike by the Trade Unions, and the warships stood offshore during a peasant revolution, and subsequent massacre of 30,000 natives.

Chile - The US backed the Allende government in Chile in 1973. A US Senate committee investigation uncovered documents showing multimillion-dollar payments to former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet. Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the 1973 military coup in Chile "is not a part of American history that we are proud of."

Paraguay - The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and building a new base there in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, 200 kilometers from the border with Bolivia. The location of the base will put U.S. troops within easy striking distance of the Bolivian provinces of Santa Cruz and Tarija, home to the second largest gas reserves in South America. (See Bolivia, below)

Bolivia – In October, 2005, a Bolivian commando force commanded by elements from the US Embassy and the CIA seized 28 land to air missiles used to defend Bolivian air space. The missiles were supplied by the People’s Republic of China in 1993, with other materiel at a cost of four and a half billion dollars.

Ecuador – The U.S. denied building an $80 million U.S. military base in Ecuador which now exists. First they said the facility was an archaic “dirt strip” which would be used for weather monitoring and would not permanently house U.S. personnel. Days later, the Pentagon stated that it was to serve as a major military base tasked with a variety of “security-related” missions.

Honduras - Between 1982-1986, the U.S. was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair.

Puerto Rico - In 1950, the US military suppressed the Independence Movement.

Costa Rica - 1948, Costa Rica -- US mercenaries interfered with the sovereignty of the country.

Jamaica - In 1970-1983, conservative religious structures operated as spies on behalf of the CIA.

Colombia – President Clinton approved $1.3 billion for “Plan Colombia” under the banner of fighting the “War on Drugs”. The real interest of the United States is defending the operations of Occidental, British Petroleum and Texas Petroleum, and securing control of future Colombian fields.

Nicaragua - The U.S. began its open support of the Nicaraguan Civil War that began in 1976, better known as the Contra War. Ronald Reagan authorized the CIA a budget of $19 million to organize a counterrevolutionary force to undermine the Sandinista regime which had come to power in 1979. In 1984 Nicaragua filed a suit in the International Court of Justice against the United States in Nicaragua v. United States, which in 1986 resulted in a guilty verdict against the U.S., calling on it to "cease and to refrain" from the unlawful use of force against Nicaragua through placement of underwater mines by CIA operatives and training, funding and support of the guerrilla forces.

Panama – In 1964, U.S. Suppression of Liberation Movements, which were against the US possession of the Panama Canal. The U.S. financed and supported Manuel Noriega to use drug money to fund the Contras

Grenada - It has been exactly twenty years since the U.S. forces invaded Grenada, ending that Caribbean island nation's four-year socialist experiment. President Ronald Reagan's decision to occupy the country and replace the government with one more to his liking proved to be quite popular in the United States, with polls indicating that 63% of the public supported the invasion.

Guatemala - In June 1954, the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala, installing a despotic regime and bringing an era “of torture, repression and state terrorism that has taken the lives of close to 200,000 Guatemalans.” This action was committed largely to protect the commercial interests of the United Fruit Company, which had close financial ties with the US Secretary of State and the head of the CIA.

Dominican Republic - In 1965, 20,000 US troops landed to obstruct the National Liberation.

Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez has harshly accused the White House of backing coup-plotters against him. Critical of US action in Haiti, he warned the U.S. to "get its hands off Venezuela." The US has earned Chávez's ire by sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-Chávez organizations and by issuing a steady stream of criticisms of Chávez policies.

Haiti – U.S. agents whisked leftist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide off to the heart of Africa in what Mr. Aristide describes as a kidnapping.

Cuba – In 1961,Cuba - Bay of Pigs invasion; planned, financed and executed by the CIA. Ever since, there have been U.S. sanctions against Cuba that starve the civilians and feed Castro’s regime.

AND......many thousands of miles away:

Vietnam - By the time the U.S. was finally forced to withdraw in 1975, much of the country had been saturated with chemical weapons, and the war had claimed 2,000,000 Vietnamese and Cambodian lives. But Vietnam also showed how U.S. imperialism can be beaten. The Vietnamese people's struggle for self-determination against the U.S. and the U.S.-backed puppet regime in South Vietnam defeated the world's greatest military power. Thousands of U.S. soldiers drew the conclusion that their quarrel wasn't with the Vietnamese, but with the politicians and generals who sent them to Vietnam.

Cambodia – One million killed. During this war the U.S. used the methods it accused Milosevic of using--search and destroy patrols, chemical weapons, gas, burning villages and driving out and killing thousands of civilians.

Serbia and Kosovo - Bill Clinton said the bombing of Serbia and Kosovo was to bring about justice and to protect the oppressed Albanians. But for decades the West has backed mass murderers and torturers as long as they fitted in with Western economic interests. Clinton accused Serbia's Milosevic of killing 2,500 civilians in Kosovo, but the West has supported governments which have butchered hundreds of thousands.

Phillipines - In the 1900-1903 war to conquer the Philippines, the U.S. killed more than 1,000,000 people. In the midst of that war, U.S. Army General Shefter said: "It may be necessary to kill half of the Filipinos in order that the remaining half of the population may be advanced to a higher plane of life than their present semi-barbarous state affords."

Indonesia and East Timor - In 1965 the U.S. backed General Suharto in sweeping away the slightly left-wing government of Indonesia. At least 500,000 were killed by Suharto and his allies in the immediate aftermath of the coup. U.S. President Ford and his secretary of state, Kissinger, visited Suharto the day before the invasion and nodded it through.

Angola - The U.S. was determined to stop a left-wing government from controlling the country. From the beginning of the Angolan civil war, the CIA channelled arms to UNITA, a right wing rebel group that has killed over 750,000 civilians, two-thirds of those killed were children.

Iran – From the Shah until now, the U.S. has interfered greatly in Iranian internal affairs and the Iranians just don’t like the U.S. because of this historical and continuing interference in their government.

Iraq - Henry Kissinger's recruitment and betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds were falsely encouraged to take up arms against Saddam Hussein in 1972-75, and were then abandoned to extermination on their hillsides when Saddam Hussein retaliated.

Interesting side note: Lately, the U.S. has strenuously objected to Mexico's and China’s interference in our own political processes, national security and domestic affairs and NO BS Press says:

“So as ye sow, so shall ye reap”

One would think that "killing two birds with one stone" ie. bringing our soldiers home and tending to our own national interests (which are in great jeopardy) might be the logical and sensible course to pursue.

Americans will now have to accustom themselves to living in two kinds of societies at once: in the midst of great wealth, as compared to much of the rest of the world; and in the midst of great risk, ie. nuclear, chemical and biological weapons we have created to defend ourselves and pre-emptively attack others.

"They" don't hate us, "they" hate our leaders who seem to have an unquenchable thirst for power, money and control. If the American public, or for that matter, any "public" in the world, doesn't stand up and fight for the rights they and their forefathers fought and died for, the "leaders" will get us all killed.

Next blog - Why has VIOLENCE historically been the only successful method for bring about political change?