“Mommy, Daddy why are those people on TV so angry? Why do they burn our flag? Why do they hate us?”
Will he tell his son:
“Son it’s because”:
American soldiers went on the rampage in Afghanistan, broke into people’s homes and killed them while they slept and then burnt their bodies.
It’s because we pay no regard to their religion and burn their holy books – the Quran.
It’s because we like to kill people and then piss on their dead bodies.
It’s because once we kill them we like to cut their fingers and ears off and keep them as trophies.
It’s because we like to kill 92 year old men in their beds while they sleep.
It’s because when we talk about winning hearts and minds, what we really mean is to wipe every single Afghan village off the face of the earth.
It’s because we like to kill people and we know we’ll get away with it.
It’s because our militarised media is so strong no one will believe we’re possible of committing such evil acts.
It’s because when one of our soldiers speak out about what’s really happening, we’ll do everything possible to silence him.
In IRAQ they hate us the CIA put Saddam Hussein into power and manipulated Iraq and Iran into a war. We sold weapons to Saddam – 1.5 million people died in the Iran-Iraq war. Then came the Desert Storm campaign, depleted uranium, 10 years of UN sanctions led to almost a million dead children and the latest Iraq invasion, over a 1 million Iraqis have died as a result of American interference in Iraq.
In CHILE they hate us because we got rid of their Preseident Salvador Allende, killed in an American-sponsored coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s rise to power, organised by the CIA and Henry Kissinger, began nearly twenty years of military dictatorship that led to thousands of deaths. 30,000 people were massacred in the weeks following this September 11th, as Pinochet tried to wipe out those who opposed fascism. Years later our British friends welcomed the war criminal Pinochet with open arms and gave him sanctuary.
In The Congo they hate us as we gave them a military dictatorship thanks to the CIA assassination of Patrice Lumumba. The Congo conflict has led to at least 3 million deaths.
In Cambodia they hate us (& Britain) for backing the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot who killed nearly 2 million Cambodians.
Since the Second World War, the US government has bombed 21 countries:
China in 1945-46 and again in 1950-53,
Korea in 1950-53
In Korea, nearly 3 million civilians were murdered by the USA and its allies. Civilians were murdered at No Gun Ri and many other places. The USA supported the fascist puppet regime in South Korea. The South Korean government carried out genocide against both North and South Korean people.
Guatemala in 1954, 1960, and 1967-69
Indonesia in 1958
Up to one million innocent civilians died in Indonesia after the CIA put Suharto into power in Indonesia. At least one third of the population of East Timor died after the USA gave Suharto permission to invade that country.
Vietnam in 1961-73
North Vietnam did not want a war. The US military-industrial complex made sure that there was a war. Through the Phoenix Program, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese were tortured to death in “interrogation centres”.
These torture centres were built by the United States. Women were always raped as part of the torture before being murdered. This terrorism, rape and mass-murder was the policy of the USA. The My Lai massacre itself was an operation of the Phoenix Program.
Up to 5 million Vietnamese were killed in the Vietnam war.
Congo in 1964.
Laos in 1964-73,The United States Air Force dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes for nine years on the people of Laos — from 1965 to 1973. Over 2,000,000 tons.This was some of the heaviest aerial bombardment in world history.
Peru in 1965
Cambodia in 1969-70
El Salvador throughout the 1980s
Nicaragua throughout the 1980s
Lebanon in 1983-84
Grenada in 1983
Bosnia in 1985
Libya in 1986
Panama in 1989
Iraq in 1991 until today.
Somalia in 1992, 1994
Sudan in 1998
Former Yugoslavia in 1999
Afghanistan in 1998, 2001 until today.
No, son I don’t know why the rest of the world hate us.