Abu Ghraib Torture and the Philippine War Imperialist
STEP 1: Effectively managing a government scandal: Iraq War torture
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President Bush blames “a few bad apples” for Abu-Ghraib.
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In 20 YEARS of searching I have never found ONE case of a CIA officer being prosecuted for crimes while on duty. They are untouchable.
STEP 2: Effectively managing a government scandal: Genocide of the American Indians
All Americans in the 1800s believed in Manifest Destiny, the Mormons took it one step further and believe that Jesus came to America. File:Manifest destiny with angel.png
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Everyone is aware of the Indian Genocide. Adolf Hitler studied the American genocide on how to deal with Jews. File:American indian genocide.jpg
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For the most part, armed American Indian resistance to the U.S. government ended at the Wounded Knee Massacre December 29, 1890
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It took me 42 years to find an instance of any ONE person who opposed the Indian Genocide, they were the Quakers. Remember before? The Quakers are the same group that ended slavery in Britain.
Ineffectively managing a government scandal
1890. The Indian Genocide is complete
On February 1898 JUST Eight years after the end of the Indian genocide. the USS Maine sunk in Cuba. File:Sinking spanish american war GettyImages-517212546-a4c6608d1d224137b316e18bd7624179.jpg
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Which started the Spanish American war.
One of the wars that America had was the Philippine American War against the Spanish.
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Now , the first concentration camp was NOT the Holocaust.
The first concentration camp was in 1900 in South America. Predictably the American papers wagged their fingers at the terrible British.
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But a couple of years later, America created their own concentration camp in the Philippines.
There were orders for soldiers to kill everyone over 10 years old.
Here is a cartoon about this incident.
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Now, the newspapers back home had a field day.
A congressional committee was formed
With Imperialist and Anti-Imperialists.
There was testimonies about the mass murders.
It was a public relations nightmare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Philippines
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I actually wrote 90% of this article 15 years ago in 2015, when I was in law school in Texas with my Russian wife.
The U.S. Has Been At War 222 Out of 239 Years.
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