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    ignoring the recent seeminly of topic posts i'll list bush as my worst president. and so not to make this a rant i'll leave a few reasons.

    turning 9-11 into his own reichstag fire.
    getting rid of kyoto as his first thing to do in office.
    no action on nuclear non-proliferation.
    dismantling singlehandedly the power of the un.
    changing the us laws on human rights.
    withdrawing from the war crimes court.
    turning the election into a media won slagging match.
    quantanamo bay.
    econimic down turn.
    rise in unemployment.
    drop in the value of the dollar.
    rise in c02 levels.
    rise in oil consumption.
    the failure of the iraq war.
    the hunt for ghosts in afghanistan.
    having some of the worst intelligence in history in two wars.
    break down of the middle east talks.
    the christainisation of a supposedly faithless nation.
    drawing america further to the right.
    offering rewards on terrorists.
    reducing taxes on the rich.
    having anti-american sentiment spiral.

    that'll do for now.

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    Can you name an organization that actually uses the African flag as a racist symbol?
    Can't think of any offhand, but like I said, the law of averages suggests somebody has.

    The cross is still the symbol of Christianity, and the KKK generally used flaming crosses.
    Judging by what I saw last time I laughed at Jerry Springer (when I was in the Army I'd tune my TV to that channel and turn it off while my idiot roommate watched it--when he started cheering, I'd turn it on real quick to see who was fighting or stripping), they wear a cross on the right breast of their... robes, or whatever they call their bedsheets.

    And more than one church, including the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church, bears the image of a cross with a stylized flame (which, I believe, is meant to represent the Pentecostal fire).

    The Confederate flags other than being used by KKK and other such groups weren't being used as a symbol of anything else. Since the only time the average person saw the stars and bars was at KKK type meetings,
    Actually, the Confederate flag was a part of several state flags--in the case when the "Battle Flag" wasn't orginally incorporated into the state flag, it replaced a different flag representing the Confederacy (such as in Georgia, when the "Battle Flag" was added to the state flag shortly after the last living Confederate soldier in the state died).

    First of all, the Nazi Flag was red with a white circle and a black swastika, that isn't the same flag at all. Another thing is that the swastika in Asia is exactly backwards of the European one. (One is clockwise and the other is anti-clockwise, but I can't remember which one was which) So the Korean swastika isn't even the same swastika even if the flags were similar.
    I apologize if I seemed to imply that it was the exact same flag--the Korean swastika (as in the one I saw in Korea--I don't know if other countries have the same tradition, and the Korean Flag doesn't have a swastika on it) is a white flag, completely undecorated except for the red swastika.

    However, the symbol is still indeed a swastika, and as any black person who's found one spray-painted on his or her door can attest, a swastika without a white circle and a red border is still a swastika, with all the usual connotations. The Korean swastikas are not seen as racist not because they're not exactly the same as the Nazi swastika, but because all or most people who see it understand whatever other people who fly a swastika may think, this person flying a swastika has no statement in support of racism or nazism to make.

    And this next part ought to be fun....

    turning 9-11 into his own reichstag fire.
    Nice of you to add a little Reductio ad Hitlerum in there, but to claim that taking action against terrorism after our nation suffered a horrendous attack by terrorists is a "reichstag fire" is... well, it's well-known that sometimes hatred can overpower reason. As for the other connotations of the Reichstag fire--i.e., the Nazi involvement in its taking place, I'll simply note it as ridiculously false, laugh cruelly, and move on to...

    getting rid of kyoto as his first thing to do in office.
    First of all, since the Kyoto Treaty had no goal except to kick America in the leg, getting rid of it would be a good thing.
    However, Bush did not 'get rid of kyoto'. It's the Senate's duty to ratify or not ratify treaties, and the Senate refused to ratify Kyoto.

    no action on nuclear non-proliferation.
    Wait'll we invade Iran, then.

    dismantling singlehandedly the power of the un.
    As with the Kyoto Treaty--not only is this a good thing, as the UN is useless, wasteful, and corrupt, but Bush did not dismantle the power of the UN--the UN did that itself, by abandoning its goals and turning itself into a characature.

    changing the us laws on human rights.
    Alright, I'll bite--which laws on human rights did Bush change?

    withdrawing from the war crimes court.
    You mean we don't send our soldiers off to some anti-American organization to be punished for doing their jobs? For SHAME!

    turning the election into a media won slagging match.
    Ahh, yes--if he'd only let Gore steal the election, the media wouldn't have had anything to say? Hmm, isn't that my line?

    quantanamo bay.
    How dare we imprison terrorists?! Tell you what--send us your address, and we'll send 'em to your house instead.

    econimic down turn.
    rise in unemployment.
    drop in the value of the dollar.
    You mean the recession that started under Clinton?

    rise in c02 levels.
    rise in oil consumption.
    Ahh, yes--the next environmental disaster--right after the mass starvation in 1968, and in 85, and the Global Cooling catastrophe of the '70's....

    the failure of the iraq war.
    Saddam Houssein is gone, the Iraqi people are choosing their own leaders. Failure non-existant.

    the hunt for ghosts in afghanistan.
    Actually, we're working on making them into ghosts.

    having some of the worst intelligence in history in two wars.
    That would be the intelligence that told us Sodom had weapons of mass destruction? Something like British Intelligence, French Intelligence (which said Sodom would be able to build a nuke by '05), Russian Intelligence, German Intelligence, Australian Intelligence, etc., etc., etc.? You'll notice (or not, but I'll still point out) that none of Sodom's protectors were claiming that he didn't have these weapons before the war....

    break down of the middle east talks.
    Which talks? I'm assuming you mean regarding Israel and the palestinians, but I'd rather be sure before I start ranting.

    the christainisation of a supposedly faithless nation.
    I don't know how it is in Scotland, but here in America it isn't a crime for an officeholder to be a Christian.

    drawing america further to the right.
    Again, a good thing, except that it's debatable whether he's actually doing so.

    offering rewards on terrorists.
    You think Bush is a bad president because he's offering rewards on terrorists?

    reducing taxes on the rich.
    The people getting screwed hardest get some relief, and you call this a bad thing?

    having anti-american sentiment spiral.
    Yes, Bush has caused America to earn the hatred of America-hating nations all over the world. Horrid, horrid man.....

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    i actually used the reichstag in there in the believe that the communists may have started that fire. it wa then used as an excuse to grab power kill off a few thousand commies and pass through the enabling and defence of the people and the state acts. which would then led on to a land grab and genocide of a people. that was what i was refering to.

    actually if you read the first few lines of kyoto it will tell you that it' plan is to cut co2 levels.

    redneck i don't quite understand your retort about iran there.

    bush re-wrote the definition of torture for america. stating that torture is "intentionally causing permanent damage to vital organs or permanent emotional trauma" (which allows electric shocks and water torture). it also allows the use of evidence obtained during torture to be submitted as evidence. (it has recently be re-written again after abu-gahrib to allow mental torture to count)

    i hate to tell you but your soldiers jobs are not to take part in war crimes.

    an election should be won on prinicples and promises not made into a media fed laughing stock.

    actually your question redneck should be "how dare we imprison suspected terroosts for 4 years without a trial, lawyer or inspection of conditions"

    your great intelligence also declared that al-qaeda had bunkers which had their own power supply, living quarters, defences including tanks and planes were in tora bora. whayt was found instead was a couple of caves with a few guns and rpgs in them. and since the iraq survey group left iraq empty handed after months of searching for wmd and found very vey little that great inteligence you hold up so high could crash down around your ears.

    the iraq war was a bit of failure really wasn't it? you turned a stable albeit nasty country into an unstable nasty country. that was a great change. i bet little timmy the iraqi boy with his face blown off will be so glad the americans came. most iraqi's are not concerned with democracy what is most important to them is being able to pick up friday dinner without losing a leg.

    the seacrh in afghanistan returned withou bin laden or most of his generals.

    offering rewards on terrorists is a bad idea. because if i fancy a quick buck i tell my local american that my next door neighbour had bin laden over for tea last night and i walk off with a few thousand dollars.

    i'm sorry but i hate to see how ich people are screwed hardest in america. wouldn't the man being screwed hardest being the man digging ditches for minimum wage or cleaning out cess pools? men making a billion dollars a year are now being screwed over? thank good i'm not rich i would hate that. i'll much rather keep a minimum wage and avoid the tax man tahnk you very much.

    fighting two wars against a religion and breaking down the un and for all the reasons above is why america is hated across the globe. not because they have nothing else to hate.

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    [quote] actually used the reichstag in there in the believe that the communists may have started that fire.[quote]
    Which is why I included that first part. A claim that taking action against terrorism after suffering a horrific terrorist attack is reminiscent of Nazism is proof that hatred can indeed overwhelm reason.

    actually if you read the first few lines of kyoto it will tell you that it' plan is to cut co2 levels.
    And if you read the rest of Kyoto it will tell you how countries other than the US are allowed to raise CO2 levels.

    bush re-wrote the definition of torture for america. stating that torture is "intentionally causing permanent damage to vital organs or permanent emotional trauma" (which allows electric shocks and water torture). it also allows the use of evidence obtained during torture to be submitted as evidence. (it has recently be re-written again after abu-gahrib to allow mental torture to count)
    And again--which law did he change? Where is there any evidence of this re-writing?

    redneck i don't quite understand your retort about iran there.
    Click the link on it, then.

    hate to tell you but your soldiers jobs are not to take part in war crimes.
    Glad to see you finally acknowledge this.

    an election should be won on prinicples and promises not made into a media fed laughing stock.
    Great, and very true. What you fail to address, though, is how Bush's refusal to let Gore steal the election he won "turn[ed] the election into a media won slagging match."

    actually your question redneck should be "how dare we imprison suspected terroosts for 4 years without a trial, lawyer or inspection of conditions"
    Actually, the Red Cross has more than one report of their inspections. Otherwise, people we capture trying to kill us are a step further than "suspected" terrorists.

    your great intelligence also declared that al-qaeda had bunkers which had their own power supply, living quarters, defences including tanks and planes were in tora bora.
    That's a declaration I don't remember seeing--do you have some kind of source, or evidence for that claim?

    [quote]the iraq war was a bit of failure really wasn't it?[quote]
    Again--Sodom gone; Iraqi people choosing their own leaders. If you consider that to be "failure", then that says more about you than about the US or our leaders.

    you turned a stable albeit nasty country into an unstable nasty country. that was a great change.
    Ahh, yes--we had the rape-rooms, the plastic-shredders, the mass graves, and the invasion of neighbors, but at least there wasn't going to be a revolution anytime soon! Were you actually serious when you typed that?

    i bet little timmy the iraqi boy with his face blown off will be so glad the americans came.
    I bet big Timmy the Iraqi father with three daughters that won't end up in the rape-rooms is pretty glad about it too.

    [quote]most iraqi's are not concerned with democracy[quote]
    The opinions of actual Iraqis (along with plain and simple common sense) refutes this one easily enough.

    the seacrh in afghanistan returned withou bin laden or most of his generals.
    Actually, we caught a significant number of his generals and more than half of his organization, along with destroying his base of operations.

    offering rewards on terrorists is a bad idea. because if i fancy a quick buck i tell my local american that my next door neighbour had bin laden over for tea last night and i walk off with a few thousand dollars.
    Uh, you don't walk off with a few thousand dollars unless your information actually gets some results--that's why they call it "information leading to the capture of....". Again, I have to ask you to please tell me you weren't being serious when you typed that.

    m sorry but i hate to see how ich people are screwed hardest in america.
    That would be the part about a third of everthing they earn being stolen from them before they even get it.

    wouldn't the man being screwed hardest being the man digging ditches for minimum wage or cleaning out cess pools?
    If some guy puts up with working for minimum wage, the only person screwing him is himself.

    fighting two wars against a religion
    Against a religion? You mean Sodom wasn't "secular" after all?

    and breaking down the un and for all the reasons above is why america is hated across the globe.
    So the world hates us for not supporting a corrupt and ineffective global agency as much as they'd prefer and defending ourselves? Y'know, somehow I doubt that.

    not because they have nothing else to hate.
    Thank you for clarifying that, just in case I decide to claim that people who hate America do so because there's nothing else out there to hate.

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    actually kyoto states that co2 levels must come down. some countries levels are allowed to remain stable or even rise because they are developing countries and it seems rather unfair to stamp on their development as much as the rest of the worlds. also it's not just american levels that need to fall. france, germany, uk, italy, spain, japan, russia, ireland, australia, new zealand. that list is vry far from just wanting to stomp purely on america.

    the re-writing has done by a man called alberto gonzales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto...#War_on_Terror

    there you can read on his part on the war on terror, the breaches in human rights, war crimes and trying to re-write the law that he authorised.

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    hate to tell you but your soldiers jobs are not to take part in war crimes.

    Glad to see you finally acknowledge this."

    i miss your point here.

    my actual alegation regarding the election was regrading the most recent. elections should not be about who can tell the biggest stories or who can scare the hardest.

    a great majority of people in guantanamo bay were not captured trying to kill you. begg (yes him again) had his door kicked in while he slept in pakistan. a few hundred miles away from trying to kill american soldiers. considering he was across the border and alseep unless he was sleep walking with a missle i do not see how men like him can be considered a risk, imprisoned for 3-4 years without a layer, charge or hearing.

    that declaration was made in front of the un before the afghan war. the easiest posible source to see it is at the start of a porgam called "the power of nightmares" there is a webpage which contains the entire transcript and footage of the program if you want to see this then ask aagin but it is very bandwisth heavy. though the text can be viewed if you cancel the footage. please ask if you want this, i just wanted to save you any problems.

    my point regarding offering rewards for terrorists regards the northern alliance. were money was given for the capture of an unspecified person. it could have been anyone. it wasn't a bounty it was a reward for claiming someone was an al-qaeda member.

    i would be one of the people "putting up " with a min wage job. not because i'm thick or unskilled (unconditional at one of the best uni's) but because there is nothing else. i work 9 hours a day 7 days for £3 an hour with half an hour break a day and very few days off. this isn't because i like it or put up with it but is because i need to and there is nothing else.

    iraq is a mess right now and ha not improved in it's violence since the end of the invasion as the big american plan had it. more people are probably dying now than were dying under sadamme. it's generated ahuge wave of anti-americanism across the world which has led to growing ranks of people willing to destroy american and it's people.

    it does not matter what sadamme was secular or not. he would go into mosques when it suited him. but to the islamic world bush has invaded two muslim countries one of which was an unprovoked attack that even it's allies said was wrong an unjust. they will forever see it as an imperial war against their religion.

    alot of people do hate you for single handedly destroying an organisation that has helped millions of people and brought the world closer together. protected the rights of people, fought for people, fed people and supported people.

    people don't hate american out of jealousy, greed or religion. it is out of fear, contempt and watching the world around them.

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    It is due to power that america is hated.

    Power brings many things.

    Others will view you as having to help them. We can't help everyone, not possible.

    Others will fear your potential for violence and may interpret actions wrong. You don't know exactly what the higher ups were thinking.

    Others will be jealous/envious(yes some would be, particually rulers), and these rulers will mud sling.. and even a saint isn't immune to mud slinging.

    Others probably fear our economic and government system the same way we feared communism.

    Others probably fear our religious ties(Israel as an example) due to the amount of fighting between religions in the past.(I am certian you can find them).

    Now the USA is not a saint.. we make mistakes, and have wrong intentions from time to time. BUT we do try.

    could we do more? Perhaps.

    Do we need to fix our homefront? Yes.

    If your sister would die from a disease, but you could prevent it with the medicine or if you could prevent a stranger with the medicine, who would you choose. Assuming they both desire it. I think I would choose my sister.. or try and find a way to save both.. but failing that.. yep my sister is the one to live.

    Sorry.. but we do need some of our resources at home.


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    but why if you need your resources at home did bush choose iraq and to drop the tax income by getting rid of taxing the rich? first of all why iraq of all places. it wasn't the biggest threat to america, it had little terrorist ties, wasn't the biggest human rights problem. but you wasted valuable resources and lives on it.

    it is not the power of america that is hated it is the misuse of that power.

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    Ah but the power was not neccesarily misused.

    Sadam was wrong.. and a good start. We should have timed it better and given strong solid reasons why, but those were mistakes and all make them. Now all we gotta do is learn and go on. You must understand that "liberating" the world is a slow process. Targets must be chosen carefully, and it will take time between each target due to the fact that the USA recieves debt from such endeavers. That and no nation to my knowledge can remain perpetually in war.(despite what happens in 1984).

    Why doesn't the rest of the UN put forth aid? I mean I am certian they could convince the USA to change thier reasons to lets take out those whom are inhuman rulers. HMM.. but that would mean cooperating wiht the US.. and that is a No-No.


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    actually kyoto states that co2 levels must come down. some countries levels are allowed to remain stable or even rise
    So levels have to come down, except in certain countries.

    also it's not just american levels that need to fall. france, germany, uk, italy, spain, japan, russia, ireland, australia, new zealand. that list is vry far from just wanting to stomp purely on america.
    And guess who the numbers come heaviest on? Go ahead, guess!

    [quote]the re-writing has done by a man called alberto gonzales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert...s#War_on_Terror[/wuote]
    "Gonzales authored a memo in January of 2002 that explored whether Article III of the Geneva Convention applied to Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan and held in facilities around the world, including Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." (from the site)
    He didn't rewrite the rules, he noted that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to terrorists.

    my actual alegation regarding the election was regrading the most recent. elections should not be about who can tell the biggest stories or who can scare the hardest.
    Ahh, so Bush's real crime was being libeled by a gigolo. {i]Now[/i] I understand!!

    a great majority of people in guantanamo bay were not captured trying to kill you. begg (yes him again) had his door kicked in while he slept in pakistan. a few hundred miles away from trying to kill american soldiers. considering he was across the border and alseep unless he was sleep walking with a missle i do not see how men like him can be considered a risk, imprisoned for 3-4 years without a layer, charge or hearing.
    I'd like to see something resembling evidence of this.

    that declaration was made in front of the un before the afghan war. the easiest posible source to see it is at the start of a porgam called "the power of nightmares" there is a webpage which contains the entire transcript and footage of the program if you want to see this then ask aagin but it is very bandwisth heavy. though the text can be viewed if you cancel the footage. please ask if you want this, i just wanted to save you any problems.
    By all means.

    my point regarding offering rewards for terrorists regards the northern alliance. were money was given for the capture of an unspecified person. it could have been anyone. it wasn't a bounty it was a reward for claiming someone was an al-qaeda member.
    The Capture. No terrorist, no money. So no, the idea that we were handing out money to anyone that wanted to lie about his neighbor still doesn't hold up to the application of common sense.

    iraq is a mess right now and ha not improved in it's violence since the end of the invasion as the big american plan had it. more people are probably dying now than were dying under sadamme.
    Actually, it has indeed. No gassing villages, no rape rooms, mass graves being dug up instead of filled--all that good stuff.

    it does not matter what sadamme was secular or not.
    I'll keep that in mind....

    but to the islamic world bush has invaded two muslim countries one of which was an unprovoked attack that even it's allies said was wrong an unjust. they will forever see it as an imperial war against their religion.
    How horrid. People who hated us, now hate us.

    alot of people do hate you for single handedly destroying an organisation that has helped millions of people and brought the world closer together. protected the rights of people, fought for people, fed people and supported people.
    First, the UN destroyed itself through its refusal to uphold the principles it supposedly stands for. Second, we're referring to an organization that deliberately stood aside to allow genocides, serves as a bully pulpit for every two-bit dictator and jihadist that figures to need one, and whose major accomplishment is the rape of 13-year-olds.

    people don't hate american out of jealousy, greed or religion. it is out of fear, contempt and watching the world around them.
    I note again, that the people who hate America have made it clear that they do indeed hate us because of religion.

    i would be one of the people "putting up " with a min wage job. not because i'm thick or unskilled (unconditional at one of the best uni's) but because there is nothing else. i work 9 hours a day 7 days for £3 an hour with half an hour break a day and very few days off. this isn't because i like it or put up with it but is because i need to and there is nothing else.
    And the economic failures of your country proves what about my country? Besides that jealousy is indeed a part of why some people hate America?

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    What is important to keep in mind about Iraq is that, while the situation has improved, there is still so much work left to be done. At least two members of the newly elected government have declined their posts citing that they felt those in the majority were setting up a puppet government and recent reports from the front have indicated that the level of tension has been on the rise again. More than ever, the lack of any rebuilding or exit strategy is the real tragedy of this war as right now there does not seem to be any way to avoid a potential rift in the new government and perhaps, a civil war.

    Take care all.

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    I would also like to add that never before has the United States set up anything BUT a puppet government. Anyone who thinks that the United States of America is actually going to do something different in Iraq is a... well... I don't feel like getting banned. Use your own imagination.

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    the numbers come heaviest down on america. and we know why don't we? becasue america has the highest co2 output ratio of any developed country. therfore they should clean up more than everyone else. that is just common sense.america has the most to change.

    the word of your 80th attorney general is citing breach of human rights as declared by the un human rights charter and signed by the us. the changes to what count as illegal interrogation techiniques is illegal. not all men in camp x-ray are enemy combtants as they were captured outside a battle fireld area or in a different country entirely (we'll come back to this and begg later) and so even stricter rules of treatment apply to civilian captives. also the usa patriot act is breaks the us constitution in sections 505 and 805. and i hate to say it as i have studied nazism for 4 years the similarites between us at present and germany after the reichstag fires are shocking. wording is similar, laws are similar, public opinion is similar. the patriot act and the Decree of the Reich President for the protection of people and state are similar in both wording, presentation and results of them.

    moazzam begg, was arrested in islamabad. held in afghanistan for a year and then in cuba for 2. anoher helpful little link for you different from the one i used before when i was asked the same question for the sake of variety. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moazzam_Begg

    the link requested for the power of nightmares is http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm
    i suggest also reading and watching the first two parts as well as they contain great detail on the start of the jihad and will answer another questions you have on why isay the jihad is not a religous war on america and why i regard the war on terror as a joke and al-qaeda a bigger one. it also details of the capture of supposed terrorists, the evidence against them and the techniques used. for quickness thogh quotes you are looking for is. thought the pictures gives a far greater presentation of this fabrication.

    "RUSSERT : A complex. Multi-tiered. [ READING , AS LABELS ARE DISPLAYED ON DIAGRAM ] “Bedrooms and Offices” on the top, as you can see. “Secret Exits” on the side, and on the bottom. “Cut Deep to Avoid Thermal Detection.” A ventilation system, to allow people to breathe and to carry on. The entrances, large enough to drive trucks and even tanks. Even computer systems and telephone systems. It’s a very sophisticated operation."

    what i refer to happening in aghanistan with the northern alliance and rewards is detailed as well.

    "VO: And now, they took their revenge on the foreign fighters. The Americans believed that these men were Al Qaeda terrorists, and the Northern Alliance did nothing to disabuse them of this, because they were paid by the Americans for each prisoner they delivered."

    this is also how begg believes he was captured as he was not arrested by military men.

    actually graveyeards in iraq are growing because every day a car bomb goes off that kills a few more innocent iraqi's. is this american justice or the great american war against terror? was this the great plan to rid of the world of an evil man? to have children blown up in the street? this wasn't happening before. it's happening now after an illegal war. human rights abuses have just been replaced with bonbs outside police stations. it's no better.

    and to cut through the gassing of villages. the most popular reference for this being halabja. there's a slight problem there. and that's to do with timing and who hlped fund that operation. who supplied iraq with those chemical weapons? the bombs needed to contain them? the planes to drop them? traied the pilots that flew them? installed the systems to guide them? that would have been america who at the time were concerned with iran and had no objections to gassing people then. now when it suits america gassing people is all of a sudden wrong and an evil they funded it in the first place and are so ultimately to blame for it. america was responsible for halabja.

    america has greatly angered the muslim world and so this is why you needn't be shocked if bombs are planted in manhattan. people should start thinking that these people are so determined to show their hate for america that they will take their own lives . invading two muslim countries has just amplified this and made the chances of another 9-11 attack far greater. you've dug your own grave.

    the un was broekn down over iraq. and the un stood up for what it believed in. it was determind to allow the inspectors to finish their duty rather than invade without needed evidence. america decided to roll over the top of this and invade anyway. and still found nothing. the un supported america 100% of afghanistan. that isn't corruption or anti-americanism. they saw an injustice and supported america. they saw iraq and saw that it was illegal. that day america lost all the support it had gained in 2001 and threw it away to fight an illegal war.

    my point about my job was that not everyone chooses to be in a min wage job. sometimes it is unavoidable. why should i and they be punished for this? taking money off the rich is not a crime against them. it also pays for your injust war and pays your war criminal soldiers who fight it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
    ignoring the recent seeminly of topic posts i'll list bush as my worst president. and so not to make this a rant i'll leave a few reasons.

    turning 9-11 into his own reichstag fire.
    getting rid of kyoto as his first thing to do in office.
    no action on nuclear non-proliferation.
    dismantling singlehandedly the power of the un.
    changing the us laws on human rights.
    withdrawing from the war crimes court.
    turning the election into a media won slagging match.
    quantanamo bay.
    econimic down turn.
    rise in unemployment.
    drop in the value of the dollar.
    rise in c02 levels.
    rise in oil consumption.
    the failure of the iraq war.
    the hunt for ghosts in afghanistan.
    having some of the worst intelligence in history in two wars.
    break down of the middle east talks.
    the christainisation of a supposedly faithless nation.
    drawing america further to the right.
    offering rewards on terrorists.
    reducing taxes on the rich.
    having anti-american sentiment spiral.

    that'll do for now.
    When you say christainsation you mean the fact htat the republicans that are neo-conservatives are hiding behind christainity right?>lol I'm a Christian and I'm a Democrat and I'm Liberal. Some smart bastard said i was gonna burn in hell because i dont support bush.The republicans are hiding behind a religion and really you have other members in the republican party thats actually fearful of this happening.

    I think the christain community in America is getting ready to have a hudge split.Sometime in my lifetime(if the rapture doesnt happen).

    As for the saddam thing and BTW redneck i know this isnt int eh topic but american oil companies are holding the oil reserves in Iraq.I just wanted to get that out there.

    I dont see Saddam as a mistake.I see that whole Iraq issue as being planned in the first place.I remember when he was first in office and the bush administration said it themselves that Saddam doesn't pose a threat.You can't blame the enviroment on a president BTW.

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    i can't blame the enviroment on a president but i can blame the refusal to do anything to improve the situation on him.

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    Yeah your right.But come on he's a bush.He's probaly in his room right now picking between Syria and Iran and N.Korea to go by using. any miny miney moe.

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