PERSPECTIVE
posted on 2006-04-01
- Christian Australians exterminated Tasmania's aboriginal population within a lifetime. It happened in the first half of the 1800s. The Christians massacred the indigenous bands, murdered men and abducted the women and children and kept them as toys and slaves. The government offered a bounty for captured Aboriginals, and in 1832 a gigantic chain hunt was held right across the island employing over two thousand men.."
- From 1846 to 1852, the British did nothing to stop a million Irish from dying of starvation.."
- In 1915-1916, the Armenian Genocide was carried out by the "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire. One and a half million Armenians were killed, out of a total of two and a half million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.."
- In 1931, the League of Nations was unable to respond to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.."
- In 1935 Italy invaded Ethiopia. Mussolini used chemical weapons, as well as tanks and carbines against 3000 Eritreans armed only with spears. The League of Nations was unable to stop it.."
- In 1936 Hitler gambled on the Western unwillingness to fight and sent troops into the Rhineland. The French and British did nothing. Meanwhile, the Italians practiced aggression of their own. 60 million people died in W.W.II.."
- In 1937, Franco allowed the German airforce to practice strafe bombing on the little town of Guernica destroying it completely.."
- In 1950, after Tibet wrote twice to the U.N. for help, China annexed Tibet, murdered one million of its citizens (1/5 the total population) and tortured Tibetans by cutting off their ears among other atrocities. China now has increased military spending and may invade Taiwan even though the United States will defend it because it is a free democracy.."
- In 1968, the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia.."
- In 1968, the Soviet army invaded Hungary.."
- In 1969, Biafra appealed to the U.N. for a negotiated cease fire, but the U.N. declined to help which meant the end of Biafra and one to three million lives lost. France surreptitiously supplied Biafra with arms which only prolonged the agony of the starving Biafran people.."
- In 1975, France sold two reactors to Iraq. The Iraqis purchased a 70-megawatt reactor, along with six charges of 26 points of uranium enriched to 93 percent - in other words, enough weapons-grade uranium to produce three to four nuclear devices.."
- In 1979, the initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army into Afghanistan took place in a war which lasted 10 years and cost the Red Army 28,000 lives. The Soviets could not beat the C.I.A. and the Mujahideen, even by resorting to torture and I.E.D.s designed to look like toys for the Afghan children to pick up.."
- In 1980, Saddam Hussein started the war against Iran in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed, and many doubles of that number were handicapped or went missing. The Marsh Arabs of Iraq have lived in the Mesopotamian Marshlands for over 5,000 years, carving out a unique way of life. Since the mid-1980s, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government has practiced a systematic and targeted destruction of the Marsh Arabs, through not only physical violence but also through the destruction of their marshland habitat.."
- In 1988, some 5000 Kurds were gassed by Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein occupied Kuwait which resulted in killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and injuring many doubles of that number in addition to the destruction of Iraq.."
- Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic led his country on a course of conflict and violent disintegration. During his 13 years of power, the people of Yugoslavia saw their country torn apart, and hundreds of thousands of people die.."
- In 1997, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan denying women the right to education and executing women in the E.U. funded football stadium before matches. In 1998, the Taliban destroyed 165ft and 110ft Bamiyan Buddhas - 2,500 years of civilisation disappeared into thin air.."
- In 1998, war broke out in the two poorest nations in the world, Ethiopia and Eritrea, costing one million dollars a day. This war was over a border dispute and Russia took advantage of the human misery by supplying military aid to BOTH sides of the conflict.."
- In 2003, 15,000 French citizens died during a heat wave. Chirac stayed on holiday; quoted as saying they were mostly old pensioners soon to die anyway.."
- As many as 300,000 lives have been lost in the ongoing struggle in Darfur where Arab troops are conducting genocide against non Arab tribes. ."
- Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is blamed for civil wars in west Africa that killed hundreds of thousands of people.."
- In 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
al-Qaeda Terrorist Acts: 1993 (Feb.): Bombing of World Trade Center (WTC); 6 killed.
1993 (Oct.): Killing of U.S. soldiers in Somalia.
1996 (June): Truck bombing at Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killed 19 Americans.
1998 (Aug.): Bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; 224 killed, including 12 Americans.
1999 (Dec.): Plot to bomb millennium celebrations in Seattle foiled when customs agents arrest an Algerian smuggling explosives into the U.S.
2000 (Oct.): Bombing of the USS Cole in port in Yemen; 17 U.S. sailors killed.
2001 (Sept.): Destruction of WTC; attack on Pentagon. Total dead 2,992.
2001 (Dec.): Man tried to denote shoe bomb on flight from Paris to Miami.
2002 (April): Explosion at historic synagogue in Tunisia left 21 dead, including 14 German tourists.
2002 (May): Car exploded outside hotel in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14, including 11 French citizens.
2002 (June): Bomb exploded outside American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12.
2002 (Oct.): Boat crashed into oil tanker off Yemen coast, killing 1.
2002 (Oct.): Nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, killed 202, mostly Australian citizens.
2002 (Nov.): Suicide attack on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killed 16.
2003 (May): Suicide bombers killed 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2003 (May): 4 bombs killed 33 people targeting Jewish, Spanish, and Belgian sites in Casablanca, Morocco.
2003 (Aug.): Suicide car-bomb killed 12, injured 150 at Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
2003 (Nov.): Explosions rocked a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia housing compound, killing 17.
2003 (Nov.): Suicide car-bombers simultaneously attacked 2 synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 25 and injuring hundreds.
2003 (Nov.): Truck bombs detonated at London bank and British consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 26.
2004 (March): 10 bombs on 4 trains exploded almost simultaneously during the morning rush hour in Madrid, Spain, killing 202 and injuring more than 1,400.
2004 (May): Terrorists attacked Saudi oil company offices in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, killing 22.
2004 (June): Terrorists kidnapped and executed American Paul Johnson, Jr., in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2004 (Sept.): Car bomb outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, killed 9.
2004 (Dec.): Terrorists entered the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 9 (including 4 attackers).
2005 (July): Bombs exploded on 3 trains and a bus in London, England, killing 52.
2005 (Oct.): 22 killed by 3 suicide bombs in Bali, Indonesia.
2005 (Nov.): 57 killed at 3 American hotels in Amman, Jordan.
President Bush so far has swiftly removed the Taliban from Afghanistan, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, overturned Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, induced the government of Pakistan to switch most of its loyalties from the terrorists to the West, and reversed a half-century of American policy that supported dictators and kings in the Middle East for the sake of stability. He has admitted that America is 'addicted to oil' and warned that the country must find alternative environmentally friendly sources of energy; yet, Bush and America are now generally considered the greatest evil and threat to world peace.
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