America pokes its nose in matters of other countries. It calls other underdeveloped nations "third world countries" and justifies attacking them with their immense military power. It defies the UN. America cannot stop playing God and meddling with other's affairs. Why else would terrorists pinpoint America as their target?\nWere there any WMDs found in Iraq? Whatever happened to Saddam? \nWhat about the inhuman treatment towards Iraqi prisioners when they were stripped, flogged and forced to masturbate in front of their wife and kids by American "soldiers"? If that isn't terrorism, what is?\nIt isnt a war between the "good" and the "bad". The way a third person would look at it, both sides (terrorist side and American side) are equally bad. \nI love America, and the people of America, but I dont like what it is doing to other countries. You can understand only if you look at the situation from the point of view of a non-American.
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Thousands of innocent civilians were killed in the war in Iraq.  Bush's war policies are bad for America.  He's the real problem.  Now he wants to bomb Iran.  If he does, China and Russia will be against us and we may have World War III.  We could all get nuked!
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America doesn't feel this way and would welcome ...please! ... responsible behavior from other countries. Thank you coalition of the willing.\nMuch of the rest of the world knows America will step up to the plate and handle the undesirable work of preserving freedom and security for all.\nThese countries profit from and exacerbate the world's problems and sit on their thumbs...or worse ...while America (and coalition) cleans up their messes.
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johnsheeran, why should anyone feel 'un-american' for asking a question and explaining why they asked that question. \n\nThe mentatlity that you and so many other's share by calling people 'un-american' really reflects the lack of intelligence in this country. \n\nAsking that question is probably the MOST American thing that can be done. Americans have the civil liberty of questioning their government. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."\n\nThe president, who may I remind you, is an employee of The People of The United States, should be questioned and expected to answer honestly why he chose to engage my country in a military conflict in Iraq.\n\nThis 'Saddam Evil Dictator/Connected to Al Qaeda' crap is so old already! We are not humanitarians so the liberation of the people of Iraq is a load of horse crap. If we were so concerned with the humanitarian issues in the world, we would be liberating many more countries. \n\nTo this day, there is still no proof that Saddam had anything to do with what happened on the 11 of September 2001. \n\nPlease, don't be a sheep to the wannabe facist regime.
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Wow i would never have thought someone would think that could be a good thing.\nThe USA CAN INDEED conqueur the world\nwho would stop them? they have the most efficient deadly military in the world... the most advanced weapons... they know all the secrets of the world and beyond our planet that we do not... their allies go far beyond what we think we know. World leaders are all of the same bread.. they dont care what the world is called all those power hungry assholes care about is having us all on a leash. Im happy that in the middle east at least SOME PEOPLE are fighting for freedom. \nIt fkn pisses me off to think that people encourage the war that is going to lead to our demise and continue to send their children and themselves to fight for a force that doesnt give a shit about you or anyone you know.\n\nWHY would you want to be slaves?\nThe day people everywhere begin to see that being a good thing is the exact same day we forfeit all our rights.... you might as well just kill urself if ur going to be that fkn stupid.. let the rest of us who want a decent world for the future of man take care of things
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Amnesy International is a less biased source than President Bush, that is for certian. It is amazing that our control of this country has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and we have a hard time understanding why people are so upset. We did finance Saddam, as we have done other dictators. It doesn't make it our fault that he did this to his people. I think it is just really interesting that our stated reason for going over there is that he attacked us. When that wasn't true we changed it to weapons of mass destruction. Well... that wasn't true either. Now it is presented as spreading democrarcy... hmmm... if our goal was to protect people from corrupt governments and spread democracy we would be in a lot of other countries...and we would be assisting countries that are starving. Kind of blows that out of the water doesn't it. I respect our troops deeply, that they would put their lives and destiny's on the line for us and I feel sad and distressed that we are not even being honest about why we are ending their lives as well as thousands of civilian lives that we don't talk about in the so called "liberal" media.
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Hi there,\n\nI think the reason is to show off America's power or their greed for power.\n\nHere's why I think so-\n\nThe USA first attacked Iraq and captured Saddam Hussein near Tikrit. The reason Mr.Bush gave for that is that the USA suspects some biological weapons in Iraq.\n\nAfter the war was over but nothing revealed, Mr.Bush apologized for this bliss by saying that he received false intelligence reports. Now that's easy, it's the same thing as I kick you hard and then apologize. Whatever the damage should be done, it was done. \n\nSo I think the reason for these attacks is not any terrorist threat to USA or the greed for oil, but it is just to show off it's power to the world after the attack of Sep 11th. I just think it is a ploy to scare away the people. It means something like Mr.Bush wants to say "We are rich, we are powerful, we can do anything, so don't mess with us."\n\nI don't mean to offend all the Americans out there. I just told you my opinion about the attacks. If I offended anyone, my sincere apologies. And let me make it clear, I'm not being partial to Mr.Hussein. I think he ruled Iraq for quite some time with an iron fist.\n\nI just told you my opinion frankly, but anyone of you here are free to disagree with this. After all, everyone has their own thought process. \n\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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keeping the republicans is way to expensive and as far as it seems pretty dangerous too , not wonder all countries around the world do not like America . \n\nbush and his people have done nothing but to impose their one way policies and have made sure to get as much money as possible in their way out we just have to see at the bicepresident to see what I'm talking about .\n\nglobal warning is also a huge problem which has been addressed by all countries and ignored by bush and and his team . we as Americans must make sure to elect a new good president and not another nature killer .\n\nthere is also the enormous problem which this administration has created whit their searching for nonexistent WMDs problem which not only has stuck America in an endless war but it has killed thousands of innocent people and has bring more hate and anger towards America .\n\nso i really hope the next  president and the new leaders are responsible people who will not take personal issues and make them into huge problems .
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OK, OK you are right, we went to Iraq to blindly muder and kill woman and children. Comforting others is not our goal, it is kill, kill, for oil. Look at what we have gain by our highest ever oil prices right now. I mean what is wrong with us Yanks. Lets face it we should know that all our Presidents think and act exactly the same no matter who they are or what year it is or what party. I mean this person is right, we are stupid and unknowledgeable about the world and we do live in the dark ages. What is wrong with Regan for putting the pressure on Russia to bring down the wall in Germany and end Communism in that country? Why in heavens name did we rescue those people from Mt. Pinatubo? Why are we willing to help so many countries in need when the chips are down? Why do those nations who rake us over the coals come to us when evil is knocking at their doors? Why? Thank you sir for giving us that just do kick in the rear because us stupid Americans desirve it. God Bless America!!!!
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I think liberals have a valid point when they say that we have alienated some countries over Iraq, but most of those countries weren't really lining up to help us anyway. The prevailing attitude that you see with many liberals is that America's foreign policies are to blame for 9/11 and other terror attacks, and this is simply not true. The terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were the same terrorist who attacked America several times during the Clinton administration, when Clinton went out of his way to be "the good guy" towards the islamic world. Foreign policy is not to blame. The terrorists simply hate the Israelis, and therefore, we are guilty by association.
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America is an amazing country and the rest of the world hates us for it. We have more guns than people, every race, religion and language spoken in the world right here in one spot and we don't have the problems these other countries have (think about that). We have the capability to completely destroy each other and we don't. Somehow Americans get along much better with each other then the rest of the world. Sure we have racism and disagreements but no civil war/massive riots(France). Why? Other countries speak the same language and have the same religion yet they are blowing up markets, burning each other and cutting of heads (notice no guns are used in those crimes). I'm not sure why we are different but we are and I wish the rest of the world would give us some credit for how we (the citizens-not our government) conduct ourselves.
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The problem, as I've noticed, is that most Americans (I'm American; this does not apply to me) are VASTLY uneducated in how to determine things for themselves. Someone tells them how things are and they believe it word-for-word. The thing is that wars themselves have never touched America (unless in events like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, which both got us INTO wars), therefore Americans nowadays have no real perception of what war is. To them, the "enemy" is whomever President Bush says it is, and that "enemy" is not a human just like them. Of course, in reality, all humans are alike, but Americans refuse to see that because of single examples of foreign people with which they come into contact, like Saddam Hussein. I bet most of them don't even know that Bush's father is the one who gave them the "weapons of mass destruction" for which we allegedly went looking in the first place, because those people are uneducated and intent on waging a holy war when half the country (those who voted for Al Gore in '00 and Kerry in '04--MY family) didn't even want our President to be OUR President.\n\nThe people who have half a brain, are educated in what's happening, have studied history and are looking toward the future are the people who AREN'T in power right now. I honestly didn't think much of Kerry in '04, but I have always hated President Bush and I always will. There is no one around willing to possibly sacrifice their political career by using the pull they have in politics and government to stand up, show this nation of idiots the truth, MAKE them wake up and mature, and go against what the government is currently doing. Actually, many Democrats in the Senate have been talking of impeaching Bush. I'm not sure if he would be convicted if such action was taken against him but I truly, honestly hope so.\n\nAnd if anyone wants to call me a Democrat, I am not; I'm liberal. And my views are not as they are because of this. I have conservative friends who study American History with me and they are also against the war. My kind of people simply aren't in power.
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America is not so hypocritical.  Humans in general are a pretty bad bunch.  Christianity tries to explain this with the idea that everyone is born with the sin of Adam and Eve already in them, and they can only stop being inherently bad by turning to God.  I am not sure that I believe that, but I do believe (mostly through experience, travel in 32 countries and living in four continents) that most people are bad if pushed.  America does bad things because they are human.  but I still prefer America to any other country because I believe that it is a system that encourages less bad deeds than many others.  Invading Iraq was a terrible mistake (Afghanistan less so, although we should be handling it better now that we are there).  \n\nIn terms of George Bush, he is breaking so many Christian rules and trampling on so many Christian values that anyone who believes that he is a true Christian is an idiot or very, very, very naive.
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What's sad about the whole issue is that we shouldn't even be there right now anyway. Everyone knows the Bush Admin. knew that Iraq had no WMD's before going there to install an American friendly government. The whole invasion had been planned for years before 9/11. People must understand the the whole war on terror is a huge fallacy, with a sole purpose of controlling oil and drugs in Eurasia.\nBesides, there's always been a war on terror... How do you think the United States of America started?\nOur forefathers broke free from British oppression in the beginning of this great republic.\n\nThe real question remains, why have large corporations been allowed to control our economy, and why has the government been allowed to get away with allowing oil companies to rule our way of life?\nThis wouldn't even be a problem if the people of the US would stand up to our government, as our forefathers intended, and do the right thing with regard to alternative fuels. America needs to be independent from outside, and internal oil influences!!!
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Feel bad?  No, I don't feel bad when people I don't know and have never met hate me.  I didn't vote for Bush and I don't like him very much, but most of what people abroad think about Americans is completely unfounded and untrue.  I've lived in three different countries in the past four years and everywhere it's always the same story propagated by whoever gives the people their information.  I just don't listen anymore, nobody would.\nAs for helping third world countries, we give as much, if not more aid than other Western countries.  Nationalized healthcare is not something most Americans want (we are not a socialist nation).  As far as "weapons and stuff", I don't think you need me to tell you that 9/11 changed the world.  American leaders are now taking big steps to ensure that will never happen again.  There is only one sure way to fight someone shooting a gun at you- shoot them first.  Primitive- yes, but then we've still a long way to go towards civilization, don't we?
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I am not American and therefore I don't qualify to answer this question, but I just have to comment on some of the other answers:\n\nTo tyingtobenice: \n\nIf you're trying (as opposed to tying) to be nice, you have a funny way of doing it. I don't think America is in the business of making its European allies 'pay through the nose for every thing they have said'.  The American people however, might do well to take a look more critically at what is being done in their name and decide if there is any truth to the allegations (which were made by the American media, not by the Europeans - the Europeans investigated their own involvement in this sordid affair).\n\nTo Rambo Smurf: \n\nIt wasn't the European press that made the allegations - it was the American media! The Europeans investigated only their own involvement in the rendition and overseas torture programme operated by the US. \n\nTo Daniel B: \n\nWhere is the evidence that your Government keeps you safe? America's actions against the Islamic World are fomenting such hatred that attacks on America and its interests are assured well into the future. You are not being protected by your Government - it is making you a target!\n\nYou also miss the point of the question - we all accept that despotic States torture people. Are you happy that one of those despotic States is your own?\n\nTo marilyn: \n\nHave you stopped to think why America was targeted so viciously? Was it because America was a generous friend of the Islamic States of the Middle East? Have you asked yourself why America has not made the same investment in the Arab World as it has in Israel? \n \nCan you imagine the horror the people and familes who have been the victims of US-aggression in Middle East went through?\n\nAs the questioner asks, are you happy that America, your country, kidnaps people and takes them to third countries that torture them for America's pleasure? Are you happy that America is being counted with the despot States of the World - that your country is viewed as a place of violent primitives? It sounds like you may be one of them when you say 'They deserve whatever they get'. \n\nTo david b:\n\nSo by your comments it is clear you support whatever the British might choose to do to the Irish, or the Spanish might do to the Basques? I guess from now on we can assume America will stop supplying funds to the IRA and urge Britain to develop a kidnap and torture programme to keep the uppity Irish in place.\n \nTo amyza29: \n\nSo you bury your head in the sand and it will all go away. Europe is your biggest trading partner and your only reliable ally and friend. When Europe starts to accuse America of despotism it is time for Americans to take note - you will feel it in your pockets as Europe looks to spend its money and its time with more acceptable friends.\n\nTo mymadsky: \n\nIt is your media that broke this story and the Europeans are investigating their own involvement in a disgraceful failure of civilised behaviour. \n\nSo what's my point?\n\nI am really concerned that Americans as citizens, do not look critically at the actions of their own Government. Terrible things are being done by the Bush Administration and they're being done in the name of the American people. Yet, as this question illustrates, many Americans seem happy to condone actions that smack of third World despotic dictatorships. What is wrong with America in the 21st Century that its citizens support imprionment without trial, kidnap and torture - all of it without adequate evidience of any wrong doing?
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How Can and "AMERICAN" be so damn stupid, i am so upset to see some bastard who has probobly never even held a gun go nuts. how can you call a president who has bettered the lives of over 5 million Afgans and Iraqis "evil" Dont you get it. the reason we're not pulling out is because of those soldiers; you want to spit on their graves by saying. yes you accomplished alot but we are going to forget that. so  sorry, you died for nothing. How can a firefighter who was SICK on that day say "i have seen first hand what suffering this war has caused." \nbesides dont you get it?!?! 3.5 million Muslims have declared Jihad on the US do you even know what that means!?! Jihad is an eternal war, it says there may be periods of peace but ultimately it must go on. Al-Qaeda and Halluza will not stop untill they have destroyed or converted the entire World. ITS NOT HOW CAN THE U.S. BE SO STUPID IT IS HOW CAN THE WORLD BE SO STUPID
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I don't really understand your question, but I think you are talking about our war on terror, am I right? Well, we recieved a serious attack which killed thousands of people, more would have died if the other two planes had hit their targets. If a country, or organization, does not want the world's most powerful nation to come breaking down their door, they shouldn't make such a blatant declaration of war. (If they didn't want war, why would they hijack several planes and try to crash them into very important buildings filled with thousands of people?) Did we start fighting this war before or after their act of aggression? After. How many countries are we allied with? How many times have we entered into a war not our own to protect those allies? How many billions of dollars are we sending overseas to many different countries to give food, clothing, and medical supplies to? How much money have we spent on fighting the AIDS epidemic in Africa? And even in Iraq, we are not just fighting, we are giving them clean, running water, more electricity than they have had in many years. And yet, despite how much we help other countries, when we retalite to a despicable attack, we are labled as cruel warmongers? That is hardly fair. I am an American. I am proud to be an American. I support George Bush. To my fellow Americans, remember 9/11? Remember how sad and angry you were? Remember how you called for justice? But now that there is criticism, now that we are in an all out war, even though you are safe over here thanks to that very war, suddenly you turn cowards and traitors? Shameful! I love America, and if someone attacks her, you can bet there will be hell to pay for it.