(Hint: Rhymes with Gush.)
Caldric wrote:No you are wrong, most people expected sooner or later we would get hit by radical organizations in the world. I would not call the killing in New York an easy provocation. Although you would like to preach that, also think we deserved it to I am sure.
The establishment has been in an increasing panic about "terrorism" ever since 1972, without betraying any interest in the source of anti-American hatred except maudlin notions of "Evil Axes"and so on. I basically dumped my support for Reagan when he sent our troops to Beirut in 1983. You see, we have the right to make the world our financial market. This is what we call Freedom.
No shame here I assure you. I am sure you could enlighten us all on your positive attitude towards all things American or the world for that matter. You should look in the mirror and see shame, your constant denial of historical fact is shameful.
Yawn. You don't seem to be making any point. I post an American flag in disgust at the shameless jingoism we have witnessed since 9-11 and you act like I put a match to the colors. You are like a schoolboy who, having been informed that his shoelaces are untied, comes out swinging. And then, just to deny his own oversight, continues to walk around all day long with shoelaces dragging.
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Millions in Iraq? That is bunk, thousands of troops yes, some civilians in war, I do not doubt it.
Even U.S. leaders say that is how many, although it is downplayed. If it wasn't on
Dennis Miller Live then I guess it didn't happen, right? I'm not talking about the Gulf War, genius, but the UN figures given several years ago by Ramsay Clark. Madeleine Albright said the human cost was "worth it." Back then it was about a million, half of them children, who have perished as a direct result of the blockade since the Gulf War--a war which Bush the First could not complete properly because he needed an ongoing excuse to keep America committed in the region. I call that Globaloney. Call me cynical.
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Iraq brings it upon its self, or I should say Saddam, but then he is against the US so you would instantly jump on the anti-US band-wagon and yell conspiracy at the highest level.
It is a common thread in terror warfare, oops I mean economic warfare, which includes terror-bombing and blockade, that elitists think that the people can and will overthrow some comic-opera bozo that the U.S. government doesn't like merely by squeezing the people into the Stone Age.
These kitchen-cabinet intellectual giants imagine that just because Americans wet their pants when they get a flat-tire and their cell-phone quits working that such will be "the shot heard 'round the world." A Requiem for Saddam of sorts. As-if the Iraqi people don't know who is squeezing them this time. We should be asking ourselves why anti-American rhetoric is so popular in the world today and if it has anything to do with our globalization "manifest destiny."
You seem to have taken up the banner of Holocaust denial so why not that too. You hide behind the so-called skeptical attitude, when your very post deny it happened.
Hiding behind the "you're a Denier" rubric, Caldric? Can you justify that statement? How, exactly, and no help from Roberto allowed--because I need your OWN brainpower on this one--am I a Holocaust Denier? Lock your thumbs together in contemplation and stew about it for as long as it takes and then compose for me specifics as to why you think this is the case. Perhaps a separate thread if you can come up with anything that doesn't rhyme with diesel or Wiesel.
American education system, that is the first thing people seem to yell around here, well guess what, unless you were educated in Germany or UK or somewhere else you got the same one. Welcome to the dumbass section, take a seat.
Yes, and with justification. But don't fret. You, too, can overcome it! Just like Teddy Roosevelt, the asthmatic intellectual, you CAN overcome this handicap by lifting cerebral weights. Pretty soon you'll be able to fell whole trees like Bully President, a veritable steam-engine in trousers.
The biggest educational handicap to overcome is simply thinking that Americans know everything. They just don't. How could any but the truly Evil not positively love us cheery bubblegum-chewing bullys bucking about in the Chinashop?
See, Americans tend to be taught WHAT to think but not HOW to think. But that can be overcome, as I said. We are not naturally dumbasses. We simply have been the big cheese for so long that that we haven't had to think outside of the cathode-ray-tube box, which is something that we as a people have been traditionally GOOD at. Good old Yankee ingenuity and know-how and stuff.
++If one cannot learn to develop a skeptical attitude he will simply be misled. But some prefer their blissful ignorance, warm beer and Must-See TV. For them the gadfly is the devil.++
<<There is a fine line between being skeptical and just down right negative, since a skeptic is one who Habitually is suspect of everything, I suppose it could be like a disorder, not even truth will matter after a period time. Everyone is skeptical to some degree, but you take it to a whole new level.>>
More than a skeptic I am also a cynic. You got me there. But that's not quite what we are talking about here. There is also a difference between cold skepticism and conspiracy-theory. A skeptic does not "suspect everything," he merely seeks to apply reason and the scientific method instead of faith and dogma to knowledge, especially received-wisdom and consensus-History.
I fully admit that I am just as opinionated as the next guy, but I am capable of understanding the limitations of knowledge generally, and in what I personally don't know, which is useful in helping me try to understand the other-guy's point-of-view. Americans, if we are to judge them by the politicians they keep, haven't quite learned how to do that. And yet they want to rule the world, one Starbucks franchise at a time.
Dying with anticipation to find out how I am a Holocaust Denier...
Best Regards,
Scott
