:26:01
1953: U.S. overthrows
Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran.
:26:06
U.S. installs Shah as dictator.
:26:11
1954: U.S. overthrows
democratically-elected
President Arbenz of Guatemala.
:26:14
200,000 civilians killed.
:26:17
1963: U.S. backs assassination of
South Vietnamese President Diem.
:26:22
1963-1975: American military kills
4 million people in Southeast Asia.
:26:27
September 11, 1973:
U.S. stages coup in Chile.
:26:30
Democratically-elected President
Salvator Allende assassinated.
:26:33
Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed.
:26:37
5,000 Chileans murdered.
:26:40
1977: U.S. backs military rulers
of El Salvador.
:26:44
70,000 Salvadorans and
four American nuns killed.
:26:50
1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden
and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets.
:26:55
CIA gives them $3 billion.
:26:58
1981: Reagan administration
trains and funds "contras".
30,000 Nicaraguans die.
:27:06
1982: U.S. provides billions in aid
to Saddam Hussein for weapons
to kill Iranians.
:27:12
1987: White House secretly gives
Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
:27:18
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega
(also serving as President of Panama)
disobeys orders from Washington.
:27:24
U.S. invades Panama
and removes Noriega.
:27:30
3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
:27:34
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait
with weapons from U.S.
:27:38
1991: U.S. enters Iraq.
:27:40
Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
:27:44
1998: Clinton bombs
"weapons factory" in Sudan.
:27:49
Factory turns out
to be making aspirin.
:27:52
1991 to present: American planes
bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
:27:56
U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children
die from bombing and sanctions.