[NGTM-1R]

Too late to do something about the Second World War, Pyro. Hell, the UN didn't exsist then. Also too late to do anything about stuff from the '60s and '70s.

And if you're suggesting any of those refer to current events, cite your sources, and pray they are reliable ones.

[pyro-manic]

Guatemala. Argentina. Vietnam. Fallujah. Colombia. Venezuela. Look 'em up.

Just for balance, and to show I'm not just bashing 'Murrica for the hell of it, read up on a little island called Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The British (my) government should be hung out to dry for that little fiasco. (To summarise, it was a British territory up until the 60s, when the government decided to sell it to America so they could build a huge airfield on it. Unfortunately, there were a few thousand people living there. So the government had all their animals killed, loaded them on ships and dumped them on the quayside in Mauritius.)

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Flipside
It's like the movies....there's American action that usually involves lots of people screaming and running away from Big explosions etc, compared to, for example, French action, which involves lots of crying and people slapping each other

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
Guatemala. Argentina. Vietnam. Colombia. Venezuela. Look 'em up.

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Also too late to do anything about stuff from the '60s and '70s.

To suggest Fallujah's casualities were in the millions is pure hyperbole. No war involving America since World War 2 has had civilian casualities in the millions. Even Vietnam didn't.

[pyro-manic]

Oh, so just because it happened in the 70s it's OK? We can all forget about it and carry on as if nothing happened.

I didn't say any one war. Civilian casualties at the hands of the Americans are massive, whether it be through the odd bombing raid or a full-scale invasion. And you might want to look at this:

http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html

Second last paragraph:

Translation

    The Hanoi government revealed on April 4 that the true civilian casualties of the Vietnam War were 2,000,000 in the north, and 2,000,000 in the south. Military casualties were 1.1 million killed and 600,000 wounded in 21 years of war. These figures were deliberately falsified during the war by the North Vietnamese Communists to avoid demoralizing the population.

And:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Casualties

[Beowulf]

Annan--when he is ousted, I will be happy.

The UN--when ousted from NY, I will be happy.

[Flipside]

Ahhh... so you're the one putting up those posters