Harry S. Truman – Democrat (1945 –1953)
The United States detonates the world's first atomic bomb nicknamed the "Gadget” at a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
With the aim of ending the Japanese Empire, on August 6, an American B-29s dropped Little Boy, an uranium gun-type bomb, on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a Fat Man plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped by another B-29 on Nagasaki. During the bombing, hundreds of thousands died instantly. More than 10,000 people lost lives in 1947 during the Chinese-backed Chiang Kai-shek repression (in China), with the full support of the U.S.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower – Republican (1953 –1961)
The coup d'état of August 28, 1332 (August 19, 1953) was shaping up in
Iran. In July 1954, a popular government in Guatemala was overthrown by
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and under the presidency of
Eisenhower. In July 1958, the U.S. Navy occupied Lebanon. In the late
1960s, the United States deployed 20,000 troops to occupy parts of the
Dominican Republic that lasted until 1965. In 1960 America launched the
Vietnam War.
John F.
Kennedy – Democrat (1961-1963)
In 1962, the United States again threatened Guatemala with military
intervention. In the same year, the United States was getting its troops
prepared and subsequently found a military presence in Thailand.
Lyndon B.
Johnson – Democrat (1963-1969)
In 1963, the United States with the cooperation of Belgian troops
intervened indirectly in the Congo and with the help of domestic actors
such as President Musa Chombeh (Patrice Lumumba) overthrew the Congolese
government.
In 1964, the United States occupied the country with a re-invasion of
Panama. In August 1964, the United States invaded and attacked North
Vietnam. In 1965, the United States intervened in Indonesia plotted a
coup d’état there.
Richard Nixon
– Republican (1969-1974)
In 1969, when the Vietnam War broke out in Cambodia, Nixon dispatched
the U.S. Army to Cambodia. In 1971, America supported and led the
Bolivian coup. On September 11, 1973, the elected Salvador Allende
government in Chile was overthrown by a military coup orchestrated by
the CIA.
Allende was killed and more than 30,000 people died in subsequent
violence. In 1973, the United States overthrew the government in a
military coup in Uruguay. In 1974, with the direct intervention of the
CIA, the United States overthrew Marquis in Cyprus through a coup.
Jimmy Carter
– Democrat (177-1981)
In 1980, the United States created a military coup in South Korea. In
September 1980, the U.S. also led a military coup in Turkey. In May
1980, following the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the
occupation of the U.S. embassy, Washington began to intervene in Iran’s
affairs in attempts to release U.S. hostages, which failed in Tabas.
Ronald Wilson
Reagan – Republican (1981-1989)
In 1981, the CIA and U.S. Army clashed with revolutionaries in the
battle of their beloved state in El Salvador. The war continued until
1992. In 1981, the CIA contributed financial and military assistance to
the Contrasts against the Sandinistas. This support lasted nine years.
In September 1982, American troops arrived in Lebanon in the aftermath
of the assassination of President Bashir Gemayel in Lebanon. In the same
year Beirut was occupied by U.S. troops. On April 14, 1986, the U.S. Air
Force attacked five Libyan military bases near Tripoli and Benghazi. On
July 3, 1988, the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian airliner flying over
the Persian Gulf.
George
Herbert Walker Bush – Republican (1989-1993)
In the first year of George Herbert Walker Bush’s presidency, U.S. Army
forces occupied Panama during Operation Just Cause. On January 17, 1991,
Bush’s cabinet attacked Iraq to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.
In December 1992, the United States launched an operation to support
the outgoing president of Somali and to crack down on dissidents.
Bill Clinton
– Democrat (1993-2001)
In 1993, the CIA created a unit inside the agency tasked with
interfering in the elections of other countries. In this unit, the
"open” factions of the United States have significant names such as Paul
Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense) and Mark Grossman (Under
Secretary of State). This unit, known as the electorate, makes many
interventions in world states, especially in Third World countries.
On February 17, 1993, the CIA assassinated General Commander of the
Gendarmerie Gen. Ashraf Bethleys who had publicly objected to the
establishment of a U.S.-led Iraqi government in Iraq.
In 1995, the U.S. entered the Balkans with other peacekeepers after
having kept silent on the Balkan massacre and Serbian genocide in 1991.
However, after a while, Washington left the region unambiguously and
provided a platform for genocide (especially Muslims from Bosnia,
Herzegovina and Kosovo).
In 1999, during the coup d'état of Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, the
U.S. clearly backed Pakistan.
In August 1998, the U.S. targeted Khartoum with 75 cruise missiles. In September 1994, American troops entered Haiti to change the ruling body. InDecember 1998, the U.S. and the United Kingdom (UK) conducted a bombing operation called "Sahara Fox Operation”, after United Nations personnel left Baghdad, to destroy Saddam's biological, nuclear and chemical weapons’ program.
George Walker
Bush - Republican (2001 – 2009)
The attack on Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, on the pretext of
fighting Al-Qaeda. The U.S. and its allies attacked Iraq in March 2003
on the ground to disarm the Ba'ath regime. All the post-assault control
agencies stated that there was no evidence of WMD. The number of Iraqi
people killed is estimated at up to a million.
In April 2002, the Bush administration supported a coup in Venezuela
against President Hugo Chavez. In November 2003, Washington won with its
support (the Orange Revolution) in Georgia.
In December 2004, following the crisis in Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma's
government was overthrown by a U.S.-led velvet revolution. In 2004, the
United States announced its public support for assassination of senior
Palestinian resistance leaders by assassination squads under the
leadership of Ariel Sharon.
In March 2005, and in the wake of the Ukrainian revolution, the U.S.
also created a color revolution in Kyrgyzstan. In May 2005, the United
States created unrest in the state of Andijan (Uzbekistan) following its
apparent intervention.
Barack Obama
– (2009-2017)
Obama is the first U.S. president to engage the United States in an
eight-year long war. During 2016, the United States dropped 26,121 bombs
at weddings, on mourners and funerals, children's football games,
hospitals, schools and homes in seven countries. The people of Iraq,
Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan were targeted by
the U.S. bombs in the streets and agricultural fields.
Libya was probably an exception for the European and the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) forces and their air bombardments.
However, it was the United States who drummed the support to overthrow
the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in March 2011.
On March 19, 2011, military intervention in Libya began after a Security
Council resolution was issued by a coalition of several countries in
response to the Libyan civil war. On March 19, a military operation
began with the firing of more than 110 cruise missiles by the U.S. and
the UK. The intervention continued until late October when Muammar
Gaddafi was killed. NATO ended the operation on October 31, 2011.
According to reports, since 2004, there have been 390 drone strikes in
Pakistan. The attacks left four thousand dead, about a quarter of them
civilians.
When Barack Obama took office, U.S. attacks on Yemen increased
dramatically. Human Rights Watch reported in 2013 that 57 of the 82
people who died in an air strike were civilians. The command to launch
an air strike in Iraq in 2011 was due to the killing of dozens of
civilians under the pretext of an attack on ISIS.
Donald Trump
from 2017 till now
On January 29, 2017, the U.S. in a lame excuse to fight al-Qaeda
launched its first international attack during Trump’s presidency and
intervened in Yemen through U.S. Special Forces for naval, air and land.
The international crisis group in a report has said that the U.S. Army's
Special Forces attacked al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Arabian
Peninsula in al-Bayda province in southwestern Yemen with heavy civilian
casualties. A military missile attack on a Syrian Arab Air Force Base on
April 7, 2017 was carried out. During the attack, 59 missiles hit the
base. The U.S. claimed that Bashar al-Assad's government during a
chemical strike on Khan Shaykhun in 2017, killed a number of civilians,
and this was the reason for the attack on the base. Attacks on areas of
Syria on Saturday were the second official military offensive against
Syria by Trump.
Source :TehranTimes