The reality we must face:Our Country, the United States, is a...

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    The reality we must face:Our Country, the United States, is a Rogue Nation and Our Leaders are Criminals

    JANUARY 9, 2020

    Rogue nation at work: Parts of Laos, one of Asia’s poorest countries, look like a lush Moonscape, thanks to years of saturation bombing by US B-52s and smaller fighter-bombers targeting rice farmers and their cattle

    For as long as I’ve been alive, my country has been a rogue state.

    Actually, the US became a rogue state four years before my birth in 1949 when, in 1945, Washington decided to bomb two militarily insignificant cities in Japan with its new super weapon, the atomic bomb, instantly incinerating several hundred thousand Japanese civilians, including many, many children, and condemning at least that many more to slow agonizing deaths from resulting cancers and birth defects.

    From that war crime we went on to the Korean War where the US used the tactic of saturation bombing on the north — bombing that was so extensive that eventually the waves of B-29 bombers were unable to find any more targets to hit and were having to drop their ordnance loads in the ocean before returning to airports in Japan, where landing planes full of high explosives was considered too risky. The death toll of civilians in the North alone is estimated, over three years of bombing, at 1.5 million, or about 15% of the country’s population. Many more civilians were killed by US forces during fighting in the south.

    US military and CIA-backed forces engaged in subversion and secret support of civil conflicts in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia over the subsequent decade of the ‘50s, including the overthrow of the elected secular government of Iran in 1953, an action motivated by Washington’s desire to control Iran’s oil. That overthrow has had long-lasting consequences, as Iranians, chafing at the reign of the US-installed monarchy of the Shah, eventually overthrew it, and brought in a theocracy that was, understandably, virulently anti-US — a situation that continues to inspire endless US violence and war in the region even today.


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    https://thiscantbehappening.net/our-country-the-united-states-is-a-rogue-nation-and-our-leaders-are-criminals/
 
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