I think Tweety Twump has said America First and stated he does not want us interfering overseas. I hope he means it! America doesn't need to control the world.
I read a book by William Blum. I was looking for a book that would honestly chronicle America's faults, and it turns out America could be convicted and tried for war crimes. Of course, our guilty leaders would not admit any guilt, and, worse, would not allow themselves to go to trial to prove whether they are guilty or innocent.
I found a book that documents in one place all the people we have killed in the name of democracy or whatever excuse. William Blum wrote this book, and other similar books. There must be more out there,
"War Criminals: Theirs and Ours"
I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side.
– US General Curtis LeMay, commander of the 1945 Tokyo fire bombing operation
https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/war-criminals-theirs-and-ours
I grew up thinking the United States was innocent and just in every way. I was wrong.
"we are faced with the fact that any number of countries would be justified in issuing a list of Americans barred from entry because of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”. Such a list, of those still alive in 2005, might include:
William Clinton, president, for his merciless bombing of the people of Yugoslavia for 78 days and nights in 1999, taking the lives of many hundreds of civilians, and producing one of the greatest ecological catastrophes in history; for his relentless continuation of the sanctions and rocket attacks upon the people of Iraq; and for his illegal and lethal bombings of Somalia, Bosnia, Sudan, and Afghanistan.
General Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, for his direction of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia with an almost sadistic fanaticism … “He would rise out of his seat and slap the table. ‘I’ve got to get the maximum violence out of this campaign – now!’”
George H. W. Bush, president, for the death of more than a million innocent Iraqi citizens, the result of his 40 days of bombing in 1991, the deliberate ruination of the public water supply, the widespread use of depleted uranium weapons which has brought continuing suffering to many thousands of American servicemen and to many more Iraqis, and for the institution of draconian sanctions against Iraq, which lasted 12 years.
For his unconscionable bombing of Panama in 1989, producing widespread death,
destruction and homelessness, for no discernible reason that would stand up in a court
of law or a court of public opinion.
General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his prominent role in the attacks on Panama and Iraq, the latter including destruction of nuclear reactors as well as plants making biological and chemical agents. Hardly more than a month had passed since the United Nations, under whose mandate the United States was supposedly operating in Iraq, had passed a resolution reaffirming its “prohibition of military attacks on nuclear facilities” in the Middle East. In the wake of the destruction, Powell gloated: “The two operating reactors they had are both gone, they’re down, they’re finished.” He was just as cavalier about the lives of the people of Iraq. In response to a question concerning the number of Iraqis killed in the war, the good general replied: “It’s really not a number I’m terribly interested in.”
For his part in the cover up of war crimes in Vietnam by troops of the same brigade that
carried out the My Lai massacre. [[ Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, _Four Hours in May Lai_
(Viking, New York, 1992), p.175, 209-13 ]]
General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command, for his military leadership of the Iraqi carnage in 1991; for continuing the carnage two days after the cease-fire; for continuing it against Iraqis trying to surrender.
Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state under Reagan; a tireless campaigner and propagandist for the vilest of dictatorships, death squads, and torturers in Central America and Pinochet’s Chile; a spinmeister for the ages, who wrestled facts into ideological submission. “When history is written,” he declared, “the Contras will be folk heroes,” he wrote of the terrorists who carried out multiple atrocities against the people of Nicaragua.
Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense for seven years under Reagan, for his official and actual responsibility for the numerous crimes against humanity perpetrated by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean, and for the bombing of Libya in 1986.
Lt. Col. Oliver North, assigned to Reagan’s National Security Council, for being a prime mover behind the Contras of Nicaragua, and for his involvement in the planning of the completely illegal invasion of Grenada, which took the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians.
Henry Kissinger (who has successfully combined three careers: scholar, Nobel peace laureate, and war criminal), National Security Adviser under Nixon and Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford, for his Machiavellian, amoral, immoral roles in the US interventions into Angola, Chile, East Timor, Vietnam, and Cambodia, which brought unspeakable horror and misery to the peoples of those lands.
Gerald Ford, president, for giving his approval to Indonesia to use American arms to brutally suppress the people of East Timor, thus setting in motion a quarter-century-long genocide.
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, a prime architect of, and major bearer of responsibility for, the slaughter in Indochina, from its early days to its extraordinary escalations; and for the violent suppression of popular movements in Peru.
General William Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff, for the numerous war crimes under his command in Vietnam. In 1971, Telford Taylor, the chief US prosecutor at the post-World War II Nuremberg Tribunal, cited the “Yamashita” case as grounds for indicting Westmoreland. Following the war, a US Army Commission had sentenced Japanese General Tomayuki Yamashita to be hanged for atrocities committed by his troops in the Philippines. The Commission held that as the senior commander, Yamashita was responsible for not stopping the atrocities. The same ruling could of course apply to General Powell and General Schwarzkopf. Yamashita, in his defense, presented considerable evidence that he had lacked the communications to adequately control his troops; yet he was still hanged. Taylor pointed out that with helicopters and modern communications, Westmoreland and his commanders didn’t have this problem.""
"United States War Crimes"
By Lenora Foerstel and Brian S. Willson
Global Research, December 10, 2016
Global Research 26 January 2002
http://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-war-crimes/5561468
"The United States has been particularly reluctant to sign treaties addressing the “laws of war”. It has refused to sign The Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Thermo-Nuclear Weapons (1961); The Resolution on the Non-Use of Force in International Relations and Permanent Ban on the Use of Nuclear Weapons (1972); The Resolution on the Definition of Aggression (1974); Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Convention (1977); and the Declaration on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(1989).1
Equally disturbing was the U.S. refusal to sign the Convention on Rights of the Child, introduced into the United Nations General assembly on November 20, 1989 and subsequently ratified by 191 countries.
The first use of atomic weapons against human beings occurred on August 6-9 1945, when the United States incinerated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, killing an estimated 110,000 Japanese citizens and injuring another 130,000. By 1950 another 230,000 died from injuries and radiation. Earlier in 1945 two fire bombing raids on Tokyo killed 140,000 citizens and injured a million more.
Since World War II the US has bombed twenty-three nations. [2001 figures] Author William Blum notes:
“It is sobering to reflect that in our era of instant world wide communications, the United States has, on many occasions, been able to mount a large or small scale military operation or undertake other equally blatant forms of intervention without the American public being aware of it until years later if ever.”2
The growing primacy or aerial bombardment in the conduct of war has inevitably defined non-combatants as the preferred target of war. Indeed, the combination of American air power and occupation ground forces has resulted in massive civilian casualties around the world."
Winners of wars are not charged with war crimes. The Allies won WWI. Here is a list of WWII war crimes.
"Top 10 Allied War Crimes of World War II"
Eva Fauen December 14, 2012
Civilian Air Raids. Murder of Non-Combatants.
Operation Teardrop. Torture.
The London Cage. ...
Kocevski Rog Massacre. ...
Dachau Massacre. ...
Chinese War Crimes. ...
Rheinwiesenlager. ...
Operation Overlord Massacres
Nuclear Weapons
Murder of Non-Combatants
Prussian Rape
Mass Rape
http://listverse.com/2012/12/14/top-10-allied-war-crimes-of-world-war-ii/
Be aware! Beware!
