Naturally, I presume that you do your utmost to instruct your impressionable teenage Indonesian students that the U.S. is not a warmongering country... Elephantman

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Here's a list of wars and military actions that the U.S. has either taken unilaterally or as part of a coalition or UN Peace keeping force. I have not included the American Revolution, War of 1812, The French/Indian War, WWI, WWII or the Korean War or Desert Storm. I also did not include the numerous skirmishes, battles and wars fought with Native Americans; One incident involving the Marines giving blankets infected with smallpox virus to Native American children and old people under the guise of helping them through a bitter winter. The first known occurrence of biological warfare. Native Americans had no immunity to smallpox.

1801-1805; 1815 Barbary Wars United States vs. Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli

1813-1814 Creek War United States vs. Creek Indians (The U.S. was at war with its indigenous peoples.)

1836 War of Texas Independence Texas vs. Mexico

1846-1848 Mexican War, United States vs. Mexico (We goaded a Mexican hot head General into attacking and then stole half their country)

1861-1865 Civil War Union vs. Confederacy (The warmongeriest war we've ever had)

1898 Spanish-American War United States vs. Spain (The Cubans asked us to help them kick out the Spanish and then we refused to leave. Castro finally kicked us out.)

1899 - 1902, The Philippines, United States vs. The Philippines (The Philippines asked us to help them gain their freedom from Spain and then we tricked them into having Spain give us the Philippines. We then set upon the population killing thousands of them when they fought us to leave.)

1915, Haiti, United States Marines Intervention

1916, The Dominican Republic, United States Marines Intervention

1927, Nicaragua, additional United States Marines sent to Nicaragua after 13 years of U.S. Marines occupied Managua.

1957, Guatemala, CIA assassinates democratically elected President

1958, Lebanon, United States Marines Intervention

1965, The Dominican Republic, United States Marines intervention

1960-1975 Vietnam War United States and South Vietnam vs. North Vietnam

1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion United States vs. Cuba

1973, Chile, CIA colludes with Pinochet to overthrow democratically elected Marxist government and assassinates President Salvador Allende

1982, Lebanon, United States Marines intervention in Civil War

1983 Grenada, United States Intervention

1989 US Invasion of Panama, United States vs. Panama

1995-1996 Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia

2001, Invasion of Afghanistan, United States and Coalition Forces vs. Taliban

2003 Invasion of Iraq United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq

Does this sound like a peace loving people?

Could the reluctance, silence or outright support (Rockefeller, etc.) on amnesty spring from the Dems in Congress having been briefed on the program way back when without raising their voices in opposition? If they raise a fuss about it now, doesn't it make them look like a bunch of partisan political hacks (the Republican line of attack) and not responsible government officials pledged to uphold the Constitution? Isn't the Dems complicity on this issue part of the problem?

Let the people vote on March 4th and then we'll see.

I grew up on a farm where we couldn't see our closest neighbor. And I've lived for 20 years in the middle of Manhattan. I lived in the suburbs a couple times for about 15 minutes, which is all the time I can stand them. I despise them. Like the LW, every time I laid down to sleep I thought I'd never wake up again. Despicable, soulless, centerless, nowheresvilles. They should all be torn down.

What kind of drugs is this woman on?

AlecsMom: "HRC's problems are fairly easy to define at this time and they're not going away, now or in the general election. First, many Dems, like myself, voted for Bill twice and felt burned by the lack of progress on what we see as democratic platform issues."

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Exactly. What did Bill Clinton ever do FOR the Democratic Party? He used it to get elected, but afterwards he threw the base under the bus. He supported and advocated WTO, NAFTA, GATT, the redefinition of poverty as being the fault of the poor, Don't Ask-Don't Tell and the first federal Defense of Marriage Act. He pandered to the right at every turn. Just like Hillary has done. I'm convinced that their failed foray into universal healthcare was intended to fail. They could be "for" universal healthcare while in reality being opposed to it. They did with healthcare what the Democratic Congress is doing with the Iraq War. (Read Tiabbi's piece in Rolling Stone) Pretending to be opposed to it while supporting it and the Bush/Cheney regime in every way that matters at every available opportunity.