www.the-philosopher.co.uk/whocares/popups/warcrimes.htm
Ignoring the fact that the US has armed and funded ISIS (and AlQueda, and the Muslim Brotherhood, and any Sunni group that will do its bidding) and is chiefly responsible for propping up violent dictatorships in Saudia Arabia, Qatar, the UAE etc, not to mention subverting democratic elections for the purpose of putting in power puppet-dictators (Saddam et al), the United States has...
1. Dropped frickin' atomic bombs on Japanese civilians
2. Tested diseases and radioactive materials on its own population without their consent, often leading to death (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_ex...in_the_United_States)
3. Wiped out the Native Indians.
4. Killed a couple million civilians in Vietnam, another illegal war based on lies. Kid's are still being born mutated there thanks to the illegal use of chemical weapons.
5. Gunned down 9000 unarmed Iraqis in the infamous "Highway of Death" massacre. God knows how many more died to trigger happy troops elsewhere.
6. Sided with the Chinese emperors for about 100 years, most notably during the Boxer Rebellion, when US troops killed Chinese peasants.
7. Illegally drone striked thousands of civilians. In one famous incident, a kid was categorised as a "dog" to cover up the crime. The drone spotters insisted he had 4 legs.
8. Killed thousands of surrendered civilians in Afghanistan, most notably the "convoy of death" fiasco.
9. F**ked up and meddled in 90 percent of the countries on the planet, often with its troops directly participating in massacres (The Balinga Massacre, No Gun Ri Massacre, Gnadenhutten Massacre, Dachau Massacre, Azizabad Airstrike, Kandahar Massacre, Wounded Knee Massacre, My Lai Massacre), massacres which, horrible as they are, distract from the unethical act of messing around in these nation's in the first place, often to enact economic/political policies which are even worse and even more dangerous and degrading than the outright murders "necessary" in warfare.
10. Currently, having f**ked up Ukraine, Libya, Ecuador, Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan in the space of 9 years, the US is bombing Syria, killing untold numbers of civilians, whilst supposedly fighting ISIS, a group it is directly responsible for creating in the hope that ISIS both splintered Iraq into a civil war and toppled ASSAD, a dictator who'd never have gotten power had it not been for constant US meddlig (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1949_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat ,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria).
and the list goes on and on....
Here's a hilarious situation which happened just last Monday:
From the Guardian Newspaper:
"On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting. The prosecution abandoned the case, apparently to avoid embarrassing the intelligence services. The defence argued that going ahead with the trial would have been an “affront to justice†when there was plenty of evidence the British state was itself providing “extensive support†to the armed Syrian opposition."
