Re: Bill Clinton: "I could have killed" Osama bin Laden.
US Government has appeased dictators forever, including Saddam Hussein until he decided he had a better idea for his oil.
Over the last century, the United States government has often provided, and continues to provide today, financial assistance, arms, and technical support to numerous authoritarian regimes across the world. A variety of reasons have been provided to justify the apparent contradictions between support for dictators and the democratic ideals expressed in the American constitution.[1]
Latin America
Porfirio Díaz (Mexico) (1876–1911)[10]
Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico) (1929–2000)[11]
Juan Vicente Gómez (Venezuela) (1908–35)[12]
Manuel Estrada Cabrera (Guatemala) (1898–1920)[13]
Jorge Ubico (Guatemala) (1931–44)[13]
Fulgencio Batista (Cuba) (1952–59)[14]
Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) (1930–61)[15]
Efraín Ríos Montt and the rest of the military junta in Guatemala (1954-86)[16][17]
Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador (1979–82)[18]
Hugo Banzer (Bolivia) (1971–78, 1997–2001)[19]
National Reorganization Process (Argentina) (1976–83)[20]
Brazilian military government (1964–85)[21]
Somoza family (Nicaragua) (1936–79)[22]
François Duvalier (Haiti) (1957–71)[23]
Jean-Claude Duvalier (Haiti) (1971–86)[23]
Omar Torrijos (Panama) (1968–81)[24]
Manuel Noriega (Panama) (1983–89)[24]
Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay) (1954–89)[25]
Augusto Pinochet (Chile) (1973–90)[26]
