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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lexi2004 who wrote (3216)	12/26/2002 8:28:37 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 8683

doribee88. You said...." What do you attribute the cause of this? "..... IMO. religious nut cases, media, and poor education. maybe a few do gooders who can't seem to understand that radical islam want's to kill them no matter how much support they give them.

To: lexi2004 who wrote (3216)	12/27/2002 9:01:31 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8683

doribee88, Lorne gave you some good reasons, but there is another reason the U.S. is disliked. Even with the current iffy economy in the U.S., we have a much better life style than most of the world, have more daily freedom of how we live our lives, and have proven several times that we can win out, and recover from, extremely dire circumstances. IOW, there are many in this world that are just plain jealous of us, and it is, quite often, human nature for the have nots to hate the haves. I might add, that Canada is a good neighbor to the U.S., and for the most part is well off. They just don't flaunt it the way we do.

To: lexi2004 who wrote (3216)	12/27/2002 7:08:35 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8683

Dori, Re: Was wondering if any of you remember a time when the U.S. was more disliked in the world. Truth be told, the U.S. people always have been and continue to be looked upon kindly by people across the planet. The U.S. lifestyle and culture is the "gold standard" that teen-agers across the globe want to emulate. It is only the aggressive, imperialistic, grossly unfair and anti-democratic foreign policy of the U.S. government that is being opposed by the rest of world. I think it's important to make that distinction. Possibly embarrassed by the Catholic Church's acquiescence to the excesses of the Nazi regime, the last bunch before the Bush junta to stress the importance of preemptive strikes (also called naked aggression), the Pope has come out strongly in opposition to the madness of King George and his lapdog Tony Blair: truthout.org Even Fleet Street in London is clued in on the madness. mirror.co.uk The frontpages from December 20th and 26th tell the tale....