Not only did some CIA agents brag about participating in the bombing of Embassy Row in 1976, but another former CIA agent, Michael Townsley was convicted for his participation in it and later given witness protection here in the US.

But, the most interesting thing to me is Manuel Contreras, who materminded that bombing has accused Bush and the CIA three times of its roll in that bombing. Once before he was tried, once while he was serving his seven years  sentence, and most important, when he was finally released from jail. However the most curious thing of all is that although the bombing did occur in US territory, This country allowed Contrera's trial to occur in chile ( a blatant abdication of US legal sovereignty). Had Contreras been tried here in the US, he would have certainly been facing either death penalty (although highly unlikely since chile would have never allow this to happen since there was no legal death penalty in Chile) or life in prison. If this would have occured, I have no doubt that contreras would have spilled his guts to work out some deal with us prosecutors.

Also I would like to point out that the US did have some vital interests in Chile. This little country has one of the most important copper mines in the world. At the time, most telecommunications did depend on it. Secondly, you have to take into account the geo-political situation at the time: most latinamerica has not only going left, but they were doing so  in a revolutionary way, and also nationalizing all important industries and companies.And, when they did not nationalize them they were preventing these foreign companies to take their capital away from these countries

The other examples were all deliberate US foreign policy carried out by client states & designed to further identifiable US interests. East Timor & Operation Condor would not have been possible without US support & $$$. They are far from irrelevant.

Operation Phoenix (& its offspring, the Salvador Option) are the template for counter-insurgency today in Iraq. It doesn't work, no matter how violent & repressive. Still it was our Plan B once Chalabi didn't work out. It must take some powerful kool-aid to believe that those Shiite torture centers & death squads came into existence without US knowledge, approval & support. The reason we're no longer fully supporting them isn't any moral squeamishness over the violence; it's because we realized it would hand the country over to Iran's allies if it continued to 'success.'

But rather than argue examples, try this out:

For every example of Hussein's atrocities, one can find US examples that exceed it. Weapons of Mass Destruction? Check. State-sponsored terrorism? Mining Nicaraguan harbors - Check. Wars of agreession? Check. Biological weapons on its own citizens? Depends on whether one considers Native Americans in the 18th & 19th C to be "citizens." Medical experiments on its own citizens? Check. Where exactly does Hussein have any claim to greater ruthlessness?

The argument you are pushing here is morally bankrupt.

A counter-example to my argument (of impossibility), though, might be Tibet.

". . . the more educated you are, the more indoctrinated you are. After all, propaganda is largely directed towards the privileged." -Noam Chomsky