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 allover 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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Most of the time the United States government and military
lie.
That makes it difficult to get accurate casualties
statistics.
In the above table, death figures are often incomplete
or contradictory.
In some cases they are simply far-fetched.
It will be noted that there are some places such as Mexico,
Panama and Nicaragua which the United States has bullied
repeatedly.
America finds a little guy and just keeps picking
on him.
It's the American way.
Purely as a curiosity, I mention that war is ingrained the
Pennsylvania psyche.
Besides being part of America's wars,
Pennsylvania had fought wars of its own.
Pennsylvania had wars
with Connecticut, Virginia and New York.
It chickened out of
a tiff with what was then called East Jersey.
Pennsylvania never
was know for bravery.
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