Friday, January 4, 2008

Fuckin' America...

I discovered a website which you may or may not believe, and that's fine, i don't give a fuck what you actually think you think. I'm currently reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" so i'm over-zealous about America's history right now and i make no apologies for it. I highly recommend the book, it's emotionaly heavy and portrays the perspectives of the people who (were) enslaved, slaughtered, rebelled, corrupted, betrayed, cheated, oppressed, raped, invaded, etc(!) within the US from 1492 to the present. Intensely horrific with chilling details of America's disturbing history.
The website is Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism and it too is disturbingly frightening to say the least. I suggest you pan through it, you may already know a bit about its contents. So the following is directly from the site-

p.s. The list hasn't been updated since 2002, so it's safe to say the numbers have dramatically increased.....Iraq War ( 2002-current): 500K non-americans! That's only 5yrs, Saddam never even came close to that number in his 30yr killing spree! WTF......check it:

Chronological list of US murder toll: [under construction]

The murder toll has been achieved by either direct violence (e.g. the firebombing and nuking of Japan or the firebombing of Dresden) or indirect/proxy “low intensity conflict” (e.g. Rwanda in the 90s or Nicaragua in the 80s). (I have not here accounted for the deaths attributable to SAP.) Some extremely conservative estimates—

Native Americans (1776-2002): 4M
West Africans (1776-1865): 4M
Philippines (1898-1904): 600K
Germany (1945): 200K
Japan (1945): 900K
China (1945-60): 200K
Greece (1947-49): 100K
Korea (1951-53): 2M
Guatemala (1954-2002): 300K
Vietnam (1960-75): 2M
Laos (1965-73): 500K
Cambodia (1969-75): 1M
Indonesia (1965): 500K
Colombia (1966-2002): 500K
Oman (1970): 10K
Bangladesh (1971): 2M
Uganda (1971-1979): 200K
Chile (1973-1990): 20K
East Timor (1975): 200K
Angola (1975-2002): 1.5M
Argentina (1976-1979): 30K
Afghanistan (1978-2002): 1M
El Salvador (1980-95): 100K
Nicaragua (1980-90): 100K
Mozambique (1981-1988): 1M
Turkey (1984-2002): 50K
Rwanda (1990-1996): 1M
Iraq (1991-2002): 1M
Somalia (1991-1994): 300K
Yugoslavia (1991-2002): 300K
Liberia (1992-2002): 150K
Burundi (1993-1999): 200K
Sudan (1998): 100K
Congo (1998-2002): 3M
-i'm sure the patriot act approves of this post-eek!

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