how is it that seemingly intelligent people buy into this bullshit? can you honestly not see a difference between wwii, where we were actually preemptively attacked by another nation, a blatant act of war, and us invading and occupying a nation for going on 5 years forrrrr... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif
Wow that was really a good read. Unfortunately I never compared the two conflicts, I compared the attitudes of the people.
if another powerful world nation that actually posed a thread to us, say russia or china, attacked us today for our oil (yeah, thats why japan picked a fight with us... and isnt that some wild concept, attacking nations for their oil?), do you HONESTLY believe we would be against kicking some ***? i'd be all about it.
You're the smart guy, you tell us what you'd do. International terrorist organizations, funded by sovereign nations, to operate covertly. I guess it takes more than killing 3,000 of our own people, on our own soil, before you start playing hard ball. Im curious what soft ball approach you will inspire us with.
what i'm not about is US being the world bullies going around picking fights. what did iraq do to provoke us? or afghanistan? oh thats right, they "harbor, fund, and train terrorists, and have an EVIL government!"
World bullies? Ignorance and self righteousness are not a good combination. American citizens are placed in harm's way every day to help support foreign nations. Our touchy-feely attitude has lead to funding the rebuild of every nation we 'bully'. We police the international shipping channels to allow all nations safe passage of goods for internation trade (including India - China - Iran - everybody). Us, The United States, with our ships, our men, our money. How many Chinese ships are out there policing? How many Iranian? Not to mention the massive amount of foreign 'federal aid' we provide every single day/week/month/year. All this to provide you with goods and a market for trade, Chinese people with goods and a market for trade, all the money to keep international support... all these things we do, as a nation... and you boil it down to us being the world bullies. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
If it wasn't for us, much of the world trade system, world econimics, and yes even that precious OPEC, would grind to a halt. Does anyone thank us? Does anyone pay us? All we get is shit on by people with an axe to grind that see an opportunity to spin a positive into a negative. And ignorant ****s like yourself eat it up. Shove your 'seemingly intelligent' comment where the sun doesn't shine. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
What did Iraq do to provoke us? Are you really that stupid? How about years of failing to meet INTERNATIONAL guidelines on U.N. arms inspections? We drew many many 'lines in the sand' that Saddam willfully crossed. He crossed one too many and we took action.
The decision to invade Iraq was unilateral across politcal boundaries in this country. The majority thought it was for an iminent danger to us possibly, and to the region definitely (WMD's)... true or not, we all thought it was. Supposed intelligence stating Saddam was planning something big (nuclear), his clear refusal to follow most all the regulations the U.N. weapons inspectors placed on him, and his already shown tendency for aggression (need I mention his invasion of Kuwait? gassing thousands of his own people? etc etc?)... and you sit there f'ing clueless as to what poor little Iraq ever did to big bad United States. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
wait... thats about 3/4 of the middle east. seems like we've still got a few more countries to take over and "liberate."
Finally something we agree on. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif Tell you what, they stop sending people over here to kill us on as large a scale as they can, stop funding them, training them, hiding them... and then playing the political game of pointing their fingers everywhere else... and we'll stop sending our troops over there to 'bully' them.
after that, why not just go ahead and set our sights on those ****ed chinamen, they've been actin funny for a few years. see where i'm going with this?
Yes, I see. You are trying to invalidate a real situation by posing a fictional one. If we wanted to 'hurt' China, all we'd have to do is send home all those ships we have guarding the precious shipping channels. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
The really sad part of all this is, we go through all this bullshit for pantywaist pricks just like you. Those people who think disturbing the habitat of a few Caribou in Alaska is far worse than the political and military fallout of importing so much oil from a grossly unstable region (the middle east). Yes, save the freakin caribou, screw American lives. If we dug our own **** oil wells, started building nuclear plants regularly again, and got indepedant of the middle east, our lives would be infinitely simpler. But no, we have to worry about saving the caribou, and save the wales, and save the ozone layer, and save the poor starving hungry children of the Earth. But God help us if we dont give everyone else the support they demand, in the manner they demand. Being the only 'super power' left currently, we are d
amned if do and d
amned if we dont. 'Meddle' with foreign affairs and nitwits call us bullies. Sit back and let all hell break loose, and those same nitwits would call us self-centered isolationists.
Its people like you that are exactly the reason I vote.
