http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/iraq_poll/flash.htm
"I would shoot at the Americans right now if I had the chance," says Abbas Kadhum Muia, 24, who owns a bicycle shop in Sadr City, a Shiite slum of 2 million people in Baghdad that was strongly anti-Saddam and once friendly to the Americans. "At the beginning ... there were no problems, but gradually they started to show disrespect (and) encroach on our rights, arresting people."
You may not care what people think of you douche bag but people who are viewed as antagonist are generally agitating something to the point of retaliation, meaning more hate towards america is being justified to the eyes of various extremest factions elsewhere.
As for having "amicable relations with muslim countries", just because our government has their governments by the balls, and because america is profiting off of these countries does not mean that their general population takes kindly to us. In fact it pisses a lot of people off. Shiite', half of the U.S. doesn't support what Mr. Bush is doing. why would we suspect that people's opinions in climates that dispise the U.S. to begin with would find reason to like the U.S. after seeing pictures of mutilated musilims-->good band name)
I saw the post about the soldier comming home talking about all of the positive things we are doing out there. The US and the world need to here about these things more often. I want to hear evidence on the news every night that we are fighting and dieing and killing and throwing away our social security so that Iraq, some country that I completey forgot about for 8 years is becoming a better place to live. one accidently placed artillery shell filled with sarin doesn't do it for me
700 plus Americans +
10,000 plus Iraqi's +
however many coalition soldiers +
1 beheaded contracter
does not add up to one ten year old artillery shell and one ten year old mustard gas round that we proabably gave saddam initially.
If we are giving them water let us know. If they are going to school, hell ya tell me more.
Basically I view the death and destruction aspect of what we are doing in Iraq as clogging up one leak while causing others to flood. Bush made a mess out there so that he could rebuild a country while corperations he apperently has nothing to do with(sarcasim) prosper. Simultanously setting up a puppet govenrment long enough to establish favorable oil exporting prices for the US. This, justifyably or not?, is going to piss people off who feel a kinship to those disenfranchised and dead peoples. In some cases these people are going to become terrorists. In other cases it is going to persuade people to give money to terrorist causes. In other places it is going to reinforce the idea that Bible chummy Bush is trying to "update" the newest issue of the Koran in places of worship throughout the middel East, thus creating arguments for violent anti-christian/jewish behavior. I am not saying that the Arab world is a single n tity with one mind, but countries with deperate people looking for someone to hate are going to hate the bad guy who they've been told is threatening their way of being while rapidly consuming the worlds resources at their expense. You can talk about cajun cooking or whatever the hell you guys where trying flood my thread with all you want, but to me it just shows your imaturity, ignorants, and disrespect for this message board.
By me verbally assulting you guys I am...
a)Effectively persuading you to agree with me
b)liberating you from the tyrant of your senslessness
c)expecting you to respond peacefully
d)none of the above
the answer is obviously d, so why would a malitary assult be any different on a global scale? After all I am only trying to get you to agree with what I think is right.
Isn't democracy enforcing its way on a group of people ironic?
I have long hair and wear sandles, like phish, play music, smoke grass, and don't like joking about the idea of blowing people up. If your petty labels will make your simple brain able to generalize my existance easier so that you can put your mind in cruise control and fictitiouly reassure your insecurity, then call me a hippie all you want. Whoever said it first was right, hippies rule
don't expect a reply for a while. believe it or not I don't spend my life waiting for what a computer screen has to say.