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******************* Ron: The most glaring omission from this list is INDONESIA in 1966. The ostensible reason given for the US intervention being because democratically elected nationalistic president Soerkano was allegedly Communist. The real reason was that US corporations wanted to acquire Indonesia's plentiful natural resources cheaply.Other glaring omissions include Nicaragua and Panama in the 1980s and 1990s - for the usual ostensible and actual reasons. The brutal methods used in these Central American countries have come to be known as the El Salvador option and are now also being used in Iraq and Afghanistan because those countries are resisting the US puppet regimes there. Also Afghanistan was overtly invaded and occupied and a puppet regime put into power in 2002 as a direct result of US policy. The ostensible reason being that the Taliban government was pro Al Queda. The actual reasons included the US desire to reestablish control of (and expand) the opium poppy trade; obtain the right for Unicol to build an oil pipeline from the Caucuses oil fields through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean; and to create and expand US bases surrounding Iran and encroaching on Russia via the central Asian countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union. Similarly, Iraq was invaded and occupied and a puppet regime installed in 2003 ostensibly because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supposed to be a threat to the security of the US. Ancilliary reasons were said to be that president Saddam Hussain was a tyrant who was oppressing, torturing and killing his own people and that he had links with Al Queda. The real reasons included the fact that Saddam started selling Iraq's oil for euros; would not allow the City of London's central banksters to control Iraq's central bank; US corporations wanted to control Iraq's oil and obtain lucrative contracts for rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure; the US military wanted bases in Iraq so that it would not have to rely on Saudi Arabian bases; and the US military wanted to surround Iran with bases in order to attack that country and effect regime change there also. Arguably the US also fomented the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique in the 1980s and Kosovo and Somalia in the 1990s (and the Ethiopian invasian of Somalia earlier this century) in order to effect regime changes there. In Somalia the net effect has been chaos and anarchy which has been used by Western nations to unlawfully exploit Somalian coastal fishing areas and also to dump toxic waste in Somalian coastal waters. Another set of sucessful political coups have been the "Rainbow Revolutions" arranged by the US in the Ukraine and Georgia. No doubt a little research will reveal other examples of this aspect of US foreign policy. ************************
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