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These following topics are from the film, Bowling for Columbine: 1. 1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadegh of Iran. U.S. installs the Shah as dictator. 2. 1954: U.S. overthrows democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 20,000 civilians are killed. 3. 1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem. 4. 1963-1975: U.S. military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia. 5. September 11, 1973: U.S. stages a military coup in Chile. Democratically elected president Salvador Allende is assassinated. Dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is installed. 5,000 Chileans are murdered. 6. 1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 7,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns are killed. 7. 1980s: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow Muslim terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion. 8. 1981: Reagan administration trains and funds “Contras” to fight government. 30,000 Nicaraguans die. 9. 1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians. 10. 1983: The White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis. 11. 1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as president of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega. 12. 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S. 13. 1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait. 14. 1998: U.S. bombs “weapons factory” in Sudan. The factory turns out to be making aspirin. 15. 1991-making of the film: U.S. planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. The United Nations estimates that 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions. 16. 2000-2001: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in “aid.” |
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