Great American Slaughterers Through the Ages
An Iraqi TV channel, apparently unhappy that the United States ended the three-decade reign of one of the modern era’s marquee mass murderers, takes a ramble through U.S. history to highlight great American “slaughterers” who have occupied the White House. A little fact-challenged, and considering all the death and destruction we get pinned with, not a very impressive effort, but here goes. MEMRI:
“Andrew Jackson 1829-1837, AKA ‘The Slaughterer of Indians’; Annihilation of hundreds of Indian tribes.
Jackson presided over the “Trail of Tears” removal of tens of thousands of Indians westward, leading to deaths of thousands, and earlier took part in the war on the Seminoles, fair enough, though the annihiliation of hundreds of tribes might be a stretch. I’m not going to quibble. But a couple of loose lugnuts and the wheels come off pretty quick.
“Pierce Franklin [sic] 1853-1857; Threatening the Japanese empire with the American fleet.
Commodore Perry under Pierce engaged in a show of force that opened up feudal, insular Japan to the world. A quick check isn’t bringing up any reports of slaughter, though when you consider the subsequent Japanese modernization enabled the rape of Asia and the bloody Pacific war less than a century later, I suppose you could lay that at Pierce’s door.
“Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865; The American Civil War. Thousands of dead and wounded.
Make that hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded. Given Arab ambivalence toward slavery in modern times, I can see how that might be viewed as meaningless or even objectionable slaughter.
“Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921; World War I. Thousands of dead and wounded.
Woodrow Wilson, “thousands” dead in the WWI. The U.S. entry actually helped end the deadlocked slaughter of millions, but whatever. The Treaty of Versailles might be more fruitful ground, particularly for Iraqi commentators, but these people are clearly historical illiterates, so never mind.
“Harry Truman 1945-1953; The 1945 destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by means of two nuclear bombs.
Look, we have to be willing to take our lumps, but any moron can see those tragic events should be placed at Franklin Pierce’s door for his slaughter of Japanese samurai in the 1850s that compelled the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere to defend itself against western aggression in the 1930s and ’40s. And what about all the Chinese and North Korean commies Truman slaughtered in the 1950s, huh?
“Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961; The American intervention in Lebanon on July 15, 1958.
Lebanon, 1958? I’m a little weak on the details of that massacre, but near as I can tell, there wasn’t one. I can’t believe these guys omitted mention of Eisenhower’s shameful slaughter of thousands of Germans in Normandy, let alone his failure to open a second front earlier, causing many many thousands of Germans and Russians to slaughter each other, all as part of the cruel slaughterer FDR’s larger global crusade of death.
I thought the anti-war left and Americans in general had sketchy memories and misconceptions about what happened in Vietnam. You know, the fuzzy recall of facts such as communist efforts to take over the world, being militarily defeated by superior American force when domestic politic discord handed global communism a win, that kind of thing. Al-Whateveriyah doesn’t make it that far before encountering difficulties. It does seem to share the view that Richard Nixon should bear the blame for a war that began and was escalated well in advance of his presidency, however:
“Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969; The beginning of the air bombardment of North Vietnam on February 9, 1956 [sic].
“Richard Nixon 1969-1974; Sending 540,000 American soldiers to invade Vietnam.
The description of modern U.S. involvement in the Middle East is a romp:
“Jimmy Carter 1977-1981; Sponsor of the Camp David Accords with the Zionist entity.
“Ronald Reagan 1981-1989; Supporting the 1982 Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear plant.
“George Bush (Father) 1989-1993; Leading the coalition of thirty countries that invaded Iraq in 1991.
“Bill Clinton 1993-2001; An intensive missile attack on Iraq in 1998.
“George W. Bush 2001 till now; Thousands of dead and wounded in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, since 2001 [sic] to this day.”
OK, someone needs to get these guys a copy of that Lancet study. George W. Bush must have slaughtered at least a couple million Iraqis by now.
I don’t know why Clinton gets so much credit. Did he actually kill anyone in those missile strikes? What about the U.N. sanctions regime that tortured millions of Iraqi children to death and embarrassed the Iraqi nation by calling undue attention to Saddam’s palace-building program? The ending of other people’s slaughter of Muslims in Bosnia of course is a little awkward, but what about his failure to stop the slaughter of millions of Rwandans? I’m getting a little tired of doing all the work here.
Bush the Elder of course deserves opprobrium for the slaughter of as many as 50,000 wretched conscripts and Republican Guard members who were enjoying an excursion in the Iraq’s 19th province in 1991. But what about his wanton slaughter of rampaging mobs in Mogadishu and while we’re at it the starvation of thousands of Somalis that he failied to stop?* Also, the persecution of Pineappleface and the slaughter of millions of Panamanians.
Doesn’t Reagan get any credit for laying waste to the Beirut airport with an Iranian suicide bomb and slaughtering thousands of East Germans by failing to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1961?
Jimmy Carter’s crime in cavorting with the Zionist Entity is unquestionable. How many tens of thousands of righteous Muslims were deprived of martyrdom opportunities by Egypt-Israeli peace? But how about the era of war and death he inaugurated by failing to stop the Iranian mullahs and the Soviets in their tracks. Surely the deaths of so many thousands of jihadis cannot be attributed solely to the war criminal Bush or his dog of a father.
* Excuse me. I believe this sentence actually belongs in the previous paragraph. I’m beginning to see how this anti-American Sunnis effed it up. So much slaughter, not so easy to keep track of.
Topics: moronocy, history, America
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:45 pm on Saturday, May 3, 2008
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May 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
What about W and his co-conspirators who, according to Reverend Wright and others, brought all those chickens home to roost on 9/11? Thousands slaughtered. Surely co-equal with Saddam’s inside (Iraq) jobs.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Here we are witnessing the fruits of a Saddamite education.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Also the CIA created AIDs which has killed millions in Africa. Probably ordered by Reagan or Carter.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:21 am
They forgot Colonel Sanders as well. All those poor chickens, slaughtered to feed the Imperial American War Machine™!!!!!
May 4th, 2008 at 10:42 am
At least they were bipartisan about it!
May 5th, 2008 at 1:00 am
If they really believed that stuff they’d be telling each other “You know, maybe those jihadists poking Uncle Sam in the eye might not be a good idea.” We have not yet put forth even a tithe of our potential power. Muslims should pray to Allah that we never think we need to do so, and they should act to crush the jihadists so that we don’t come to the conclusion that we need to inflict a lot more pain on them to stop the jihadists.