America's death toll on the world: 27,000,000++, page 3

Imperium Americana?

As of 2006 the U.S. maintains over 702 bases in 135 of the 195 sovereign independent nations of the world; now that is nothing right? Every country has military bases across the world - right? RIGHT! Yet of course foreign policy of the worlds only superpower, can not be judged or critiziced at all; whatever happened, which caused 27+ million of casualties in the world was PROVOKED and CAUSED by somebody else - not Imperium Americana!

Bombs 4 Peace?

73% of the years, from World War II's end to 1989, the U.S. bombed somewhere. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the U.S. bombed at least 88% of the years into 2007. Is bombing fun or something? How many countries in the world have done this and got away with it? So there you have it - but what else can you do, when you have 702 military bases in 135 coverign nations around the world - and when talking about military bases: One author, Chalmers Johnson, notes that America's version of the colony is the military base - which is a pretty interesting theory, which can proove that Imperium Americana is actually very alive today, not in the old style Empire way; but in the new EMPIRE way. Alongside with weapons comes Cultural and Economical Imperalism.

General Smedley Butler, two Congressional Medals of Honor, for capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914, and for capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917, Distinguished Service Medal, 1919. Republican primary candidate for Senate, 1932:

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.

So what makes You think that WAR has gotten any better or any more noble then 70+ years ago, when General Butler was "Liberating" South America? Are you tryingt to say, that 27+ million people dead DESERVED it?