We haven't done this: torture, gas, napalm, radiate and murder 100,000 innocent people.
Uh, yes we have.
You've forgotten that we killed 200,000 Filipinos (damn country was perfect, except for all those Filipinos, so went the saw of the day), thanks to the oh so brave and God-fearing McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt who followed up behind McKinley and finished the job.
And what about Korea? Vietnam? Cambodia? Latin America? Cuba? Panama? Japan? And Iraq of course too! Reagan gave Saddam his full support even though Reagan *knew for a fact* that Saddam was gassing Iranians. And we sent him anthrax and other fun stuff too! How nice of us. Oh my I need a few pages to add up all the countries we have directly or indirectly been responsible for the deaths of thousands... often tens of thousands.
Its a simple fact: the only country that has killed more **innocent** people - civilians - in modern history than the United States of America is....
Hitler's Germany.
Teddy Roosevelt was a hippocrite. He said that "patriotism is standing behind the country, not the president" -- yet he accepted no criticism of his policies which saw 120,000 US troops occupy the Phillipines (which the US was not at war with) when "insurgents" tried to oust the occupiers (sound familiar).
Despite other former presidents of the day being opposed to this, the action went on for over a decade, with terrible loss of life all around.
Well, the job of citizens is not to rubber stamp bad policy and call that being "patriotic". You should try being crtically analytical sometime. |
