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Thread #64026   Message #1051160
Posted By: Amos
10-Nov-03 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Code of a Good Republican
Subject: RE: BS: Code of a Good Republican
Here's a list, compiled by historian William Blum, of countries which the US bombed between the end of World War 2 and the current war in Iraq -


Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Vietnam 1961-73
Laos 1964-73
Guatemala 1967-69
Cambodia 1969-70
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador throughout the 1980s
Nicaragua throughout the 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991 and throughout the 1990s
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001


In how many of these instances did a stable democratic society, respectful of human rights, occur as a direct result?
Choose one of the following:


(a) 0
(b) zero
(c) none
(d) not one

(From Dick Gaughan's website)

A