"OK I get we should look out for the rest of the world first then our own??" - Shadow
---"I'd like to suggest that America fix America's problems before trying to "fix" everyone else's." - hallowed
Again you hear, but fail to listen.
"American Poverty is nothing of the scope or scale as it is there in Iraq. Period"
But it exists - according to your Census Buearau (1999 - most recent) 12.4 percent of the U.S. population, or 33.9 million people live below the poverty line, and you want to tell me that that is not a problem?
"We assimilated Iraq?? WE DON'T WANT IRAQ!! Wake up!!"
Of course you don't WANT Iraq, Iraq is just a worthless stretch of sand you'd rather nuke and turn into glass. However, without a dictator and a "liberated" government to allowed some "free" trade the US will no doubtedly move industrial operations there to take advantage of the low labour rate, and the "thankful" people. Oh yeah, won't YOUR gas prices be a little cheaper? I know ours wont be.
"Hellooo most Americans are FAT, not malnurished. We have just the opposite problem, most Americans eat to much and are fat slobs"
mal·nour·ished - Affected by improper nutrition or an insufficient diet. (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=malnourished)
Malnourished is simpy a state of not eating the proper foods in the diet. The US is malnourished, you just take it the the opposite extreme. Period.
"No but at least they can work and do get payed. Its better than the alternative, no job and what that brings with it"
So it's sociologically feasable to have a country full of university graduates flipping burgers?
"But you say just the point, every AMerican has the ability to go to school. Most Iraq children did not. Especially the girls. What people choose to do with that offer is up to them and if they squander it, thats another story"
So you agree with me then? do you really think the illterate people of the middle east would refuse an education and choose to be unemployed? I will guarantee that that will not happen, only in America would you choose to remain ignorant.
"BUSH is not a dictator, he was elected, he can be replaced, dictators can not. Bush doesn't use poison gas on his citizens thats a slight difference also you forgot about. Stop hating one man and letting your hate spread to the rest of us Americans."
You started right but now have it backwards. Bush was elected by you, like Clinton before him, and Bush before him. They are the people YOU choose to lead you, to speak for you, to act on YOUR decisions. My dislike for Bush is stemmed from my dislike for your attitudes, actions, and mostly everything about the United States people.
"You mean the Un-united Nations?? ya now there is an organization that does a lot of good when it comes to stopping the killing in Iraq"
Who are you to make that decision? People need to WANT to change in order for change to happen, you can't FORCE people to change, they WILL resist it. it's human nature. The rest of the UN realizes that when Iraq wanted to change, they would ask for it. Then we would GLADLY help, but now you've invaded and we are just waiting for the backlash that we are going to have to clean up.
"YOU didn't let us do anything, you had nothing to do with it, that is the problem"
No, we LET you invade, we should have stopped you. You may have the most well equipped army in the world, but do you honestly think you could stand up to the rest of the world? what would you do then? Nuke us all?
"Stop hating America because its America"
I don't hate america, I think you're pompus, arrogant, brow-beating, under-acheiving, elitist asswads, but I don't hate you. You could change, you COULD be a nation that is abe to proudly display your flag in Europe, Asia or even Africa, but you'd have to want to change, and I simply don't see that happening
"Oh and stop driving so bad when you visit."
The only thing I can say is learn to drive, the rest of us have *G*.
"Its only arrogant because you don't like it"
ar·ro·gant
1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
--or--
Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons
No - it's arrogant because you because you refuse to veiw things from another perspective. You said "As for humanitarian level, give me a break, they want a better life, work for it..." - you refuse to see things as the rest of the world does. You also say " that also is what the U.S.A. is about, being able to say what you want when you want to" which is true, you can say ANYTHING you want to, but nobody will listen unless they feel the same way. you feel that what your beilieve is the beat and only way to live, you are quite frankly not THAT important, nobody is.
"There is no retirement plan and a happy old age for a criminal like you."
I don't agree or sympathize with them, but they didn't have it to begin with, they are not losing anything.
"they want to be left alone? Then leave us alone"
Remove your trade embargos, stop your capitalist imperialism, and leave everyone else alone to deal with thier own problems, and you might not be subject to attacks.
"no need to kill to get a point across"
Then remove your troops for foreign soil, your ships from international waters, and planes from other countries airspace, and take your own advice.
And for the other people reading this - Iraq is not a terrorist filled nation, they did not attack the US, they did not present a clear and present danger to the survival of the United States. The Al-Quida, the terrorists based out of Afganistan, did, but Iraq was invaded on behalf of the United States people because the Electoral president of the United States needed to have some sort of progress in the American jihad.
And to Shadow look at the responses you've recieved: two people agree with you, six do not, it looks like other people may have a different opinion, take it to heart.
