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Why is it always the U.S.s fault?
ArmoLeb24:
Who brought Saddam to power, and supported him while he was killing people?
Who supported Noriega, and was paying him a SALARY of $100,000 a year, while he was involved in drug trafficking?
Who attacked Central American countries simply because they wanted to pay us for the land we were using, and use it themselves? Who replaced the leaders with corrupt, U.S. puppet governments?
The answer to all of those questions is the United States.
.:DayGoStyLz:.:
its not ALWAYS Americans fault, but America does have a way of placing blame on others always and not stepping up to take responsibility for its own actions. That goes beyond our government, its almost our whole way of living now. When our kids turn out bad, its because TV influenced them, their friends influenced them, etc...not because we're bad parents. Its just the overall attitude of the country now. Id rather live here then anywhere, but i dont pretend as if other countries just hate us because we're America. Its not just jealousy, its the way we act. If it were pure jealousy that made other countries hate us...then EVERY country with less power then us would hate us. But thats not it, only those countries who have very different cultures...and who we try to control, "hate" us. Bottom line...we're not ALWAYS wrong...but we're not ALWAYS right either.
infinite59:
In America, we have created a peculiar phenomenon of blaming the victim. Isreali Jews steal almost all of Palestine and we blame the Palestinians when they start throwing rocks. America invades and occupies Iraq with a "shock and awe" campaign and we blame Iraqi's when they put schrapnel and a few pieces of scrap metal together to make a weapon.
We must remember that when the Islamic civilization was at it's hieght in the middle ages, and had penetrated deep into Europe, controlling Spain, they governed over Jews and Christians in peace and harmony, and even the Jews will admit they experienced their golden age in Muslim Spain. Muslims lead the world in science and technology without being harmful to the enviroment.
smerlus:
--- Quote from: Hajj Ibrahim Islam on April 21, 2004, 06:04:44 AM ---In America, we have created a peculiar phenomenon of blaming the victim. Isreali Jews steal almost all of Palestine and we blame the Palestinians when they start throwing rocks. America invades and occupies Iraq with a "shock and awe" campaign and we blame Iraqi's when they put schrapnel and a few pieces of scrap metal together to make a weapon.
We must remember that when the Islamic civilization was at it's hieght in the middle ages, and had penetrated deep into Europe, controlling Spain, they governed over Jews and Christians in peace and harmony, and even the Jews will admit they experienced their golden age in Muslim Spain. Muslims lead the world in science and technology without being harmful to the enviroment.
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Basra bombs kill at least 68 Iraqis
18 schoolchildren among the dead, police say
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 11:43 AM EDT (1543 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Five suicide car bombings near police facilities in and around the southern Iraqi city of Basra killed at least 68 Iraqis Wednesday -- including 18 schoolchildren, police said.
About 100 people were wounded in the attacks, which occurred after 7 a.m. (11 p.m. Tuesday ET) during the height of rush hour, a senior military source said.
Most of the dead were civilians, killed in three bombings: one near each of three Basra police stations and two at the nearby Regional Police Academy at Az Zubayr, police said.
Ten boys and girls being driven to kindergarten in a minivan and eight girls in another minivan headed to a high school were killed in one of the blasts, according to police official Col. Ali Abdullah.
The dead included at least 16 Iraqi police officers, police said.
Basra, which is usually a quiet region of Iraq, is under the control of British coalition forces.
British Foreign Minister Jack Straw blamed "insurgents who are trying to disrupt the [June 30] handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi people."
One car exploded in Az Zubayr and then, 30 minutes later as people gathered at the scene, a second suicide car bomb went off in the same location, police officer Hassan Kahlaf said. He said that the first bomber was dressed as a policeman.
In Baghdad, top coalition civilian administrator Paul Bremer said the attacks show that "the terrorists are willing to kill as many people as they can, indiscriminately, and they seem to have killed quite a number of schoolchildren today in addition to policemen."
Crowds threw stones at the coalition forces as they were trying to reach the sites of the blasts, a British military source told CNN.
British Army Capt. Hisham Halawi said calm seemed to have returned to Basra as British forces and Iraqi police began an investigation.
Coalition authorities in southern Iraq issued a statement, denouncing the attack.
"On behalf of the Coalition Provision Authority, we wish to express deep shock and revulsion at the murderous attacks on Iraqi police forces this morning and the loss of so many innocent Iraqi lives," said a statement from Basra governorate coordinator Henry Hogger and regional coordinator Patrick Nixon.
Bremer said remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime are largely responsible for recent attacks in Fallujah, Ramadi and now Basra.
He said the coalition has anticipated that as the June 30 sovereignty handoff nears, insurgents "would increase their attacks on the Iraqi people and on the coalition."
"We have to do everything we can to defeat" the insurgents, Bremer said.
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poor poor iraqis, they are so innocent....why would america possibly pic on such upstanding world citizens
JTSimon:
America = #1 terrorist state.
Invade Iran 2006 ;)
Syria 2007
Pakistan 2008
If America is so concerned about Human Rights go invade China/Rwanda ;)
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