America’s Record of Murder and Mayhem Since 1945: Some of the Worst Hits
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By Paul Street
Global Research
The United States has killed, maimed, displaced, and otherwise harmed an astonishing number of people (according to Ward Churchill) in its 241-year record of murder and mayhem – including more than 20 million killed in 37 nations since 1945.
Direct Assault
A distinction exists between those Uncle Sam has directly assaulted and those he has more indirectly attacked. Examples of direct assault are numerous and horrible to contemplate.
The history of direct U.S.-military mass killing since 1945 includes:
* The firebombing of Tokyo: roughly 100,000 Japanese civilians incinerated when U.S. bombers created the greatest firestorm in history.
* Hiroshima (146, 000 killed with a single bomb – what U.S. president Harry Truman called “the gr...