Forgotten February in the United States of Aggression | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Feb. 1, 2015

Since it appears so many folks need reminding that “USA” has always stood for “United States of Aggression,” here are a forgotten few from February’s Files:

February 1898
In 1897, Teddy Roosevelt stated bluntly, “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” His wait lasted less than a year.

Feb. 15, 1898, was a muggy Tuesday night in Havana Harbor. Some 350 crew and officers settled in on board the Maine. “At 9:40 p.m., the ship's forward end abruptly lifted itself from the water,” writes author Tom Miller. “Along the pier, passersby could hear a rumbling explosion. Within seconds, another eruption -- this one deafening and massive -- splintered the bow, sending anything that wasn't battened down, and most that was, flying more than 200 feet into the air.”

The Maine was in Havana Harbor in 1898 on a purportedly friendly mission. “At a certain point in that spring, (President) McKinley and the business community began to see that their object, to get Spain out of Cuba, could not be accomplished without war,” wrote Howard Zinn, “ and that their accompanying object, the securing of American military and economic influence in Cuba, could not be left to the Cuban rebels, but could be ensured only by U.S. intervention.”

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