WHY DO THEY HATE US?

The question – “Why do they hate us?” surfaced right after 9/11 and has convinced most Americans that 9/11 was because extremists wanted to destroy our way of life.
NOT!

9/11 was retribution for a wide variety of U.S. interference and transgressions including regional wars and genocides in other sovereign countries over the last 100+ years. The U.S. government has murdered opponents, fixed elections and interfered with sovereign governments all over the world to defend right-wing forces which promoted the U.S. need for profit and power.

Our own history books document the fact that the U.S. was created by genocide, a fact in which 99% of Americans are in denial.

The following accounts are a matter of proven, historical records of U.S. sponsored foreign interference and genocides:
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1899 through 1902 - Phillipines - In the war to conquer the Philippines, the U.S. killed more than 1 million people.

1903 – Colombia - When negotiations with Colombia break down, the U.S. sends ten warships to back a rebellion in Panama in order to acquire the land for the Panama Canal.

1934 - El Salvador - Some 75,000 people were killed by U.S.-backed death squads in El Salvador.

1945 – Japan - U.S. targeted and killed approximately 250,000 civilians with 2 atomic bombs.

1948 - 1980s - Costa Rica – The US has interfered with the sovereignty of Costa Rica by using mercenaries to influence elections and causing thousands of civilian deaths.

1950 - Puerto Rico - The U.S. military suppressed the Independence Movement.

1950 – Korea – The U.S. entered the Korean war to fight Communism. 54,200 American troops were killed and neither side gained any advantage.

1954 - Guatemala - The U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala, installing a despotic regime that hatched an era of torture, repression and state terrorism that took the lives of close to two hundred thousand Guatemalans.

1956 – Vietnam and Cambodia - The U.S. government sent soldiers to Vietnam under the auspices of fighting Communism. The U.S. lost the war, 50,000 of our soldiers were killed, 220,000 Vietnamese soldiers died and approximately, 5,000,000 Vietnamese civilians were killed

1959 to 1961 – Cuba –
1. Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba with U.S. aid and financial support.
2. Eisenhower authorizes covert actions to get rid of Castro.
3. The Bay of Pigs invasion was 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.

1961 – Iran - The U.S. backed the Shah of Iran who was kicked out by his countrymen in 1979. The hostage crisis happened and the U.S. alienated the entire country.

1964 – Brazil - U.S. backs military coup of existing government

1964 - Panama – U.S. troops suppressed 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 Nicaraguan Contras and then in 1989, invaded Panama and captured Noriega and put him in a U.S. prison.

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

1965 - 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.

1966 – Guatemala - U.S. sends arms, advisors, and Green Berets to Guatemala to implement a counterinsurgency campaign.

1972 – Iraq - Henry Kissinger's recruitment and betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds falsely encouraged them to take up arms against Saddam Hussein in 1972-75, and were then abandoned to extermination on their hillsides when Saddam Hussein retaliated. The present war in Iraq is a direct result of these actions.

1973 – Chile - U.S.-supported military coup kills Allende after having brought him to power and then brings Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to power. Pinochet imprisons well over a hundred thousand Chileans. 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."

1975 – Angola – The U.S. backed the invasion by Holden Roberto’s Front for the National Liberation of Angola (FNLA) from the Congo/Zaire and from South Africa in support of Savimbi’s UNITA. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/ango-a13.shtml

1976 – Nicaragua - The U.S. began its open support of the Nicaraguan Civil War that began in 1976, better known as the Contra War. In 1981, the CIA steps in to organize the contras in Nicaragua.

1970-1983 – Jamaica - Conservative religious structures operated as spies on behalf of the CIA.

1982 - Honduras - The U.S. was openly and heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair.
(See Nicaragua)

1983 - Grenada - U.S. forces invaded Grenada because Reagan didn’t approve of the new socialist government, ending that Caribbean island nation's four-year socialist experiment.

2000 – Venezuela - The US has earned Hugo 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.

2000 – Colombia – Clinton approved approved a two-year US $1.3 billion aid package to fight the "war on drugs" in Colombia. The real reason was to supply the Colombian government with military and police weaponry. Colombia is a different story and the U.S. has increasingly contracted out frontline duties to “civilians” who are actually military veterans, many with Vietnam combat experience, who work for private US corporations—Military Professional Resources, DynCorp and Virginia Electronics, to name a few. These companies are licensed by the US State Department, assuring adherence to Washington’s foreign policy agenda. 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.

2005 - Bolivia – 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.

Morally right or wrong, these are documented facts by the State Department and official U.S. government records.

Why we are imperialistic and engage in wars -

1. Need for Raw materials
2. Nationalism - Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
3. Militarism - Devotion and glorification of one's nation and devotion to militaristic leadership.
4. Expansionism - A nation's practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion.

All wars are eventually settled when enough people are killed and the leaders decide it’s time to have a truce.

There are, and never will be “civilians” in war. It is naive to believe otherwise.
Civilians have always been slaughtered by the millions.

No judgements here, just documented history and the reasons for “why they hate us.”