No place on Earth is like the United States. At this writing (2006) it's been a country for 230 years. In that time it's fought countless wars, many more that were fought by any other country on the planet. The United States is almost never at peace. It hates peace. It loves wars. America loves to kill. America love to oppress others. If there's one thing that American is known for, it's war. When America isn't in a real war, it feels lost. It invents pretend wars: The "War on Terror" The "Cold War" The "War on Drugs" The "War on Poverty" The "War on Crime" You name it, America has a war on it. We are simply an aggressively violent and destructive people. While others try to make the world a better place, we're oppressing others, we're killing, we're invading. Just look at American entertainment, video games and sports. It's obsessed with killing. You Americans love it! I've been criticized by those who want to believe that the United States is a decent, peace-loving place. Believe me, it isn't. To exemplify my argument, I'll list about 70 wars fought by the United States during the past 230 years; yes, more than 70 wars in 230 years! Admittedly, many of them are just small armed conflicts unless you happened to be one of the casualties. If you quibble with some of them as wars, pretend I listed only half the number. In point of fact, I didn't list many American aggressions. Where possible, I've included an approximation of the number of Americans who died. I realize that that's very patronizing and parochial. It would have been better to list the total deaths. Americans are egocentric folks. They care nothing for anyone else who may have died. They care about "Americans," whatever that may mean. By far the greatest number of Americans died during the many and interminable Indian Wars. About 3,000,000 Americans died in that long genocide. About 12,000 white invaders also died. While America has invaders all over the world, at the moment we're fighting only two major wars. That could change at any moment if conservatives and Republicans stay in power. Republicans are truely addicted to killing. When they have power, there's no restraining their blood lust. Presently we're slaughtering people (mostly innocent, unarmed civilians) in Afghanistan and Iraq. Let me list some of America's many other wars. Some American Wars

Approximate Dates	Description Of Conflict	Approximate No. US Dead
1620-1776	Colonial Indian Wars, many of them	Many American deaths, about 2300 white invader deaths
1774-1776	Terror War against Great Britain	58
1776-1783	American Revolution	4,435
1777	Invasion of Canada I	34
1787	Shay's Rebellion	Unknown
1792-1795	Ohio Indian Wars	600
1794	Whiskey Rebellion	15
1794-1795	Algerian War II with so-called pirates	16
1798-1800	French Naval War	180
circa 1799-1901	Western Indian Wars, many of them	2,300,000 Americans and about 3800 white invaders
1804-1805	Barbary Pirates (so-called)	27
1808-1811	Indiana Indian War	Many Americans, a few white invaders
1810-1815	War of 1812 with Great Britain	2,260
1815	Algerian War II against so-called pirates	16
1817-1819	Florida War	7
1832	Black Hawk War	182
1835-1842	Seminol War	3000 American deaths and 40 white invaders
1835-1836	Cherokee Gold-Lands War (to steal Indian gold)	195 American deaths and 2 white invader deaths
1836-1838	Texas/Mexico War (Mexico I)	26
1845-1846	Canada War II (about Oregon)	4
1846-1848	Mexico War II	13,283
1846	Mormon Illinois War	14
1857-1859	John Brown Wars	Unknown
1861-1865	Civil War	623,026
1870-1890	Sioux Indian Wars	Many Americans and about 675 white invaders
1874-1877	Molly Maguires War	58
1886	Haymarket Labor War	111
1887-1893	Hawaii Conquest	2,841 (?)
1892	Homestead Labor War	18
1894	Jacob Coxey Rebellion	Unknown
1898	Spanish American War (seizure of Spanish colonies)	2,446
1899-1902	Philippine War	150
1900	China Boxer War	13
1902-1903	Colombia/Panama War	4
1910-1920 (for US 1914)	Mexico Invasion, Mexico III	249
1912	Nicaragua Invasion, Colonization	24
1914	Mexico Invasion IV	12
1914-1919 (for US 1917-1919)	World War I	116,708
1915	Haiti Invasion, Colonization	44
1916	Mexico Invasion V	None Known
1916	Dominican Republic Conquest I	1 (?)
1918-1921 (for US 1918-1919)	Invasion of Russia during Russian Civil War	244
1919	Boston Police Rebellion (labor revolt)	Unknown
1922	Hennin Coal Rebellion	36
1927	China Invasion II	2
1927	Bonus March Rebellion	159
1937-1945 (for US 1937-1941)	Sino-Japanese War, Flying Tigers	37
1939-1945 (for US 1941-1945)	World War II	407,318
1948-1949	Berlin Blockade	44
1950-1953	Korean War	54,246
1956-1965	School Desegregation Civil War	97
1957-1975	Vietnam Wars	58,153
1961	Cuba Invasion	4 (?)
1964	Panama War II	Unknown
1964	Laos Invasion	Unknown
1965-1966	Dominican Republic Invasion II	Unknown
1966	Cambodia Invasion I	0
1967	Israel Provocation	34
1970-1975 and 1978-1991	Cambodia Civil Wars	70
1975	Tang Island War, Cambodia	Unknown
1978-1992	Afghanistan Civil War, USSR Invasion	45
1980	Iran Hostage Invasion	Unknown
1982-1983	Lebanon Invasion	248
1983	Grenada Invasion	31
1984-1986	Nicaragua II, Iran contra War	Unknown
1987	Iraq Provocation	37
1988	Iran Provocation	None Known
1989-1990	Panama Invasion III, Manuel Noriaga seizure	9
1990-1991	"Persian Gulf War," so-called, Iraq I, Bush I	299
1992-1995	Somalia Invasion	80 (?)
1993	Branch Davidian Revolt	74
1995-1997	Bosnia and Herzegovia War	372
Present	Afghanistan Invasion, Colonization	More than 1,500
Present	Iraq Invasion II, Bush II Colonization	More than 3000
	Numerous other conflicts have not been listed

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