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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (578197)5/25/2004 1:23:22 PM
From: Doren  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
Keep in mind that the terrorists decided to push their ideological war on us...not vice versa.

1) You have a short memory, like most Americans. We (the western colonial powers) have pushed our ideology on Middle Easterners since before WWI. The Middle East was arbitrarily divided by Britain and France after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in WWI. Not only that but we deposed the legally elected government in IRAN and installed the Hitler like Shah regime in 1953.

They have a good reason to be angry at us. 911 was the product of years of frustration with ignorant Americans ignoring what their government did in their name.

2) I'm all for going after Al Quieda, but Iraq was the the wrong place to go after them. They weren't there. The troops lost it because they were hated by people they thought would love them.

3) Atrocities in Vietnam really happened because "We come here to help these people and they don't even thank us". How many times did we hear that in Vietnam? The majority didn't want us there. The troops were frustrated because they "came to liberate and free" but the reality of the situation was at odds with the propaganda our government had inculcated them with.

Now we are beginning to hear the same thing in Iraq "We come here to help these people and they don't even thank us".

If you are going to talk history Ann, you'd better do some reading.
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