U.S. Serial Bombings:

The Grim Record

      American military and political leaders are clearly partial to bombing. Here is the record of countries the United States has bombarded since the end of World War II:

 China 1945-46, 1950-53

 Korea 1950-53

 Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69

 Indonesia 1958

 Cuba 1959-61

 Congo 1964

 Peru 1965

 Vietnam 1961-73

 Laos 1964-73

 Cambodia 1969-70

 Grenada 1983

 Lebanon 1983, 1984

 Libya 1986

 El Salvador mid-1980s

 Nicaragua mid-1980s

 Panama 1989

 Iraq 1991-99

 Kuwait 1991

 Bosnia 1994, 1995

 Sudan 1998

 Afghanistan 1998

 Yugoslavia 1999

(Oops Department: Countries recently bombed "by accident": Pakistan, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria.)

- Compiled by William Blum