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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsgeorge washington on torture (with thanks to new member GeoSquared)
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any . . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country. - George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
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niyad
Dec 2014
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on point
(2,506 posts)1. Perfect. Now the Bush regime needs prosecution and punishment
niyad
(113,302 posts)2. so true. but I will not hold my breath for that.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)4. ^
What would GW say about the CIA, and those who tolerate it?
The United States has been involved in and assisted in the overthrow of foreign governments (more recently termed "regime change" without the overt use of U.S. military force. Often, such operations are tasked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
1 Prior to Cold War
1.1 Russia
2 During the Cold War
2.1 Communist states 194489
2.2 Syria 1949
2.3 Iran 1953
2.4 Guatemala 1954
2.5 Tibet 195570s
2.6 Indonesia 1958
2.7 Cuba 1959
2.8 Iraq 196063
2.9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 196065
2.10 Dominican Republic 1961
2.11 South Vietnam 1963
2.12 Brazil 1964
2.13 Ghana 1966
2.14 Chile 197073
2.15 Argentina 1976
2.16 Afghanistan 197989
2.17 Turkey 1980
2.18 Poland 198089
2.19 Nicaragua 198190
2.19.1 Destablization through CIA assets
2.19.2 Arming the Contras
3 Since the end of the Cold War
3.1 Iraq 199296
3.2 Venezuela 2002
3.3 Iraq 200203
3.4 Iran 2005present
3.5 Somalia 200607
3.6 Syria 2012present
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions
niyad
(113,302 posts)5. but we are the BESTEST nation in the universe!