USA AGGRESSION AND ACTS OF WAR AGAINST SOVEREIGN NATIONS



1950 Korean War – The USA battled North Korea without any declaration of war and called it a police action.


1955 Vietnam War – The USA was unhappy about the communist government in the north, so it firstly embarked on training the South Vietnam military, then got fully involved in a large scale civil war, bombing all of Vietnam and surrounding countries until eventually it was beaten in 1975 and driven out.


1961 Invasion of Cuba (Bay of Pigs) - After the fascist US backed dictator Fulgencio Batista was deposed by Fidel Castro, the USA, unhappy about his new communist government, funded and backed an illegal invasion of Cuba which failed. The USA maintains sanctions against Cuba to this day.


1965 Invasion of Dominican Republic – The USA was unhappy about the duly elected government, so it invaded and deposed it and installed a puppet regime.


1973 Deposing of Salvador Allende in Chile with USA involvement – The USA was unhappy about the legally elected socialist government, so the CIA arranged for Allende to be deposed and a US backed fascist dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet was installed, that was responsible for killing many tens of thousands of innocent Chileans.


1983 Invasion of Grenada – The USA was unhappy about the new legally elected socialist government, so on the pretext that USA citizens were in danger, the USA invaded and deposed the government.


1985 Iran-Contra Affair – The USA secretly funded a guerrilla army with money made from illegal weapons sales to Iran because it was opposed to the legally elected Socialist government of Daniel Ortega. The USA also illegally mined the harbour of Managua to disrupt shipping.


1986 Bombing of Libya – Without offering any hard evidence whatsoever, the USA claimed that Libya was masterminding global terrorism and illegally bombed Tripoli, killing the daughter of Libyan leader Gaddafi and other innocent civilians.


1989 Invasion of Panama – The USA claimed that Panamanian head of state Manuel Noriega was allowing drug shipments to transit Panama enroute to the USA so against established international law, the USA illegally invaded Panama, kidnapped Noriega and illegally took him to USA where he was jailed.


1990 Persian Gulf War – The USA masterminded the bombing and invasion of Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait although Kuwait was not a USA ally and was previously Iraqi territory. Evidence has emerged that Iraq was given secret sanction by the USA to annex Kuwait until the USA reversed its policy without informing Iraq, thus setting Iraq up to be invaded.


1993 Missile strike on Iraq – The USA claimed that Iraq was plotting to kill the then USA President and bombed Baghdad, however no proof has ever been given that such a plot existed.


1998 Cruise missile bombing of Afghanistan – The USA bombed the residence of suspected USA embassy bombing mastermind Osama Bin Laden, killing innocent people. USA was not at war with Afghanistan.


1998 Cruise missile bombing of Sudan – The USA claimed that Sudan was operating a chemical weapons factory and bombed it without warning. The USA was not at war with Sudan and this was nothing more than an illegal naked act of war.


1998 Iraq no-fly zone - With the UK, the USA is imposing an illegal no-fly zone on Iraq without UN sanction. This action is not part of the cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the UN and under international law, it is an illegal act of continuing aggression by the USA.


1999 Air war against Yugoslavia – This was a totally illegal act of aggression on a sovereign nation. USA interests or citizens were not at risk and war was not declared. NATO is a defence alliance and has no mandate to wage war unless member countries are attacked. USA missiles and bombs have killed innocent civilians including those the USA claims to want to protect.
Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the USA has adopted a doctrine of unmitigated hypocrisy. While it has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to any part of the globe, the USA insists that all other nations divest themselves of nuclear weapons. Of course many nations such as China, India and Pakistan scoff at this suggestion and there is little that the USA can do about it, but those nations that are weak and vulnerable have been targeted and intimidated by the USA into either having their weapons programs monitored or being disarmed of any nuclear capability.

The hypocrisy lays with the fact that the USA will not set an example and divest itself of it's huge nuclear arsenal, nor will the USA ratify compliance with the International Court of Justice, even when it seeks to have people of other nations indicted in this court. The USA constantly demands that other nations comply with US protocols and treaties while continually flouting those same treaties with seeming impunity.

For instance, North Korea decided, for whatever reasons, to restart its nuclear program, so it expelled UN monitors and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. From that day, the USA has been beating the war drums, threatening North Korea with dire consequences if it does not close down the nuclear program and reaffirm its commitment to that treaty.

However the USA, in typical hypocritical fashion, withdrew from the very important Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty and commenced further work on an anti-missile shield and possibly other weapons programs. Russia objected strongly to this withdrawal, but in vain. This is typical of the USA, as it demands that other nations comply with various treaties and protocols while the USA treats them with utter contempt.

It is obvious that Iraq is not any sort of threat to the USA, however that sovereign nation is about to be assaulted in an all out war by the USA, accompanied by its faithful hounds the UK and Australia. Notwithstanding the opposition of most countries in the world, the USA has stated that it will disregard any UN veto and attack Iraq, this being yet another highly illegal act.

What is more obvious is the motive for this war. The USA is the largest consumer of oil and petroleum products in the world. US political doctrine has always been to ensure the current lifestyle and standard of living for Americans, no matter what the consequences for others. Back in 1998 when Iraq expelled UN weapons inspectors, there was no shortage of oil in the USA, therefore using the pretext of curtailing Iraq's so-called weapons of mass destruction was not an issue. The plight of the Iraqi people under the brutal Saddam Hussein was not an issue for the USA either.

The story is very different now. The general strike in Venezuela has stopped oil production there. Many Muslim oil producing countries are becoming more hostile to the USA for its support of Israel and they could turn the tap off at any moment. Coupled with that, US oil reserves have fallen to their lowest level in decades. Therefore the USA literally has its back to the wall and is seeking to establish a risk free source of oil and Iraq has conveniently become available.

Even before the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, the USA had been planning to establish a reliable source of oil and the deposing of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a US-friendly successor was mooted. All of a sudden, from four years of complete indifference to Iraq since the expulsion of weapons inspectors, the world saw the USA suddenly insist that Iraq disarm and comply with UN Resolution 1441. It was almost guaranteed that Saddam Hussein would not comply totally, thus the USA would obtain the political trigger it needed to invade Iraq, depose Saddam Hussein and either install a regime that would guarantee a copious source of oil or even install a military occupation government that would rule Iraq by force.

The world tide of opinion is changing as US plans for Iraq and other nations are exposed. In a recent survey, people were asked to choose which nation, from Iraq, North Korea and the USA, was the greatest danger to world peace. Iraq scored 8%, North Korea managed 9% but the USA scored a whopping 83%. Even in Germany, the USA's NATO partner and one of its greatest allies, a poll conducted in February 2003 showed that some 53% of those questioned said the USA was the biggest menace to world peace, compared with 28% per cent for Iraq and 9% for North Korea.

Amazingly, there is copious evidence to show the machinations of the USA, but because of overwhelming military might, the USA is now a law unto itself, no better than one of the so-called "rogue nations" that it so frequently castigates. Today it will be Iraq, tomorrow North Korea. Iran has announced the discovery of uranium in that country, which means that it can produce nuclear weapons without having to source the raw materials. Will Iran be the next target of the USA's belligerence? Time will tell. However the world has to act now to curb the USA and its attempt to impose disarmament on the planet while itself possessing such an awesome arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

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