How many murderous dictatorships has the US installed or supported?
Let's count.
| Country | Dictator | Dates | Statistics |
| Chile | Gen. Augusto Pinochet | 1973-1990 | 3000 murdered. 400,000 tortured. |
| Argentina | Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla | 1976-1981 | 30,000 murdered. more |
| Indonesia | Suharto | 1965 coup against left-leaning Sukarno, 1975 support of East Timor genocide |
500,000 dead after 1965 coup; 100,000-230,000 dead in East Timor; more, more, more. |
| Guatemala | Armas, Fuentes, Montt | 1954- | |
| Iran | The Shah of Iran | ||
| Ayatollah Khomeini was on the CIA payroll in the 1970s in Paris | |||
| Egypt | Sadat, Mubarak | 1978-today | |
| Iraq | Saddam Hussein | ||
| Nicaragua | Anastasio Somoza & sons | 1937-1979 | |
| Paraguay | Stroessner. US supported throughout (state.gov says US has supported Paraguayan development since 1942) ($142M between 1962 and 1975) | 1954-1989 | |
| Bolivia | Col. Hugo Banzer overthrew elected leftist president Juan Jose Torres | 1970- | |
| Angola | Jonas Savimbi/UNITA (didn't actually win his revolution, but killed or displaced millions) | 1975-1989 | |
| Zaire | Mobutu | ||
| Saudi Arabia | Saud family | ||
| Kuwait | a monarchy | ||
| Morocco | |||
| Tunisia | |||
| Algeria | |||
| Jordan | |||
| Panama | Noriega was US-supported for years | ||
| Haiti | Papa Doc, Baby Doc | ||
| Dominican Republic | Trujillo, a military dictator for 32 years with US support for most of that time; Belaguer, Trujillo's protege, installed after US Marines intervened to put down an attempt to restore the democratically elected government of Juan Bosch | 1930-61, 1965-78 | |
| Honduras | |||
| El Salvador | 1980s | ||
| Nepal | monarchy | since 1948 | |
| Cuba | Fulgencio Batista | pre-Castro | |
| Brazil | Gen. Branco overthrew elected president Goulart with US support | 1965-67 | |
| Uzbekistan | Kamirov "The Boiler", $150M from the Bush administration for an air base. | 1965-67 |
There are some gaps of information there. If you know any details that could help fill the gaps, let me know, it would be much appreciated.
So I count 25. Rough numbers, let's not be picky.
I barely have 25 people in my pingpong club, we're talking 25 countries.
Now that's a bleeping crime.
So who's responsible? I am an American: I am responsible.
So what am I going to do about it? I'm going to be an American, and express myself, with attitude, about what I do and don't like in this world, and tell everyone what I think has got to be done. So keep on reading.
And you? Be an American too: make up your own mind, persuade yourself, and try to persuade the rest of them. Talk leads to action, so talk!