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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A. Geiche who wrote (383993)	4/2/2003 1:45:25 AM
From: A. Geiche	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769668

Editorial: Creating Bin Ladens Arab News 2 April 2003 This week, Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak warned that the war against Iraq would create “a hundred Bin Ladens”; so bitter are Arabs and Muslims about the US and UK over Iraq. Others made the same prediction even before the invasion started. It is already beginning to come true, as our correspondent Mohammed Alkhereiji noted in his report from Amman in yesterday’s edition. Busloads of volunteers are making their way from the Jordanian capital to Baghdad. Many, as he pointed out, are Iraqi exiles heading home, eager to join up and fight the Americans and British — an estimated 5,700 according to the Iraqi Embassy in Amman. But there are others from elsewhere in the Arab world — Algerians, Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians, Yemenis — all determined to fight. Their numbers are growing rapidly. Images of bodies, of injured children, or homes bombed have raised Arab fury to fever point. Even more volunteers can now be guaranteed to head for Baghdad following the two bloody bomb attacks on Baghdad markets and, on Monday, the killing by US troops of seven women and children in a vehicle at a checkpoint near Najaf. This latter tragedy is another nail in the coffin of Washington’s plans to convince the Iraqis that they are not its target. It will also further stoke up Arab and Muslim anger against the US. The killing may have been an accident, but the seven women and children would be alive today but for Bush’s invasion; and that is how most Arabs will see it. As for the report from a Washington Post correspondent that in fact 10 people were killed and that US troops fired without giving sufficient warning, it, not the official US version, is going to be believed; Arabs are in the mood to believe the worst of the US at the moment. Such is the level of hatred and bitterness that it comes as no surprise that many of the Arab volunteers heading to Baghdad talk about becoming suicide bombers. The Iraqis say they now have 4,000 of them in the country. The number is probably an exaggeration but that there are would-be suicide bombers can be in no doubt. The most astounding aspect of this bitterness toward the US and UK, and the willingness of young Arabs to die fighting them, is that most of them probably never gave Iraq a second thought a few weeks ago. They were anything but militant; they have been turned into militants by events. And in the wider Muslim world, the response is the same. In Pakistan, militancy is again on the rise, fed by pubic fury with the war; outlawed groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba are making a comeback under new guises. In Iran too, hardly Iraq’s best friend, there is deep anger over the invasion. People do not drive vehicles loaded with gallons of petrol into the walls of the UK Embassy in Tehran, as happened yesterday, out of mere annoyance. Whether this intense level of Arab and Muslim animosity toward the US and UK will continue in a post-Saddam Iraq that is allied to Washington remains to be seen; but there is no reason to believe it will subside. Arabs and Muslims do not trust President Bush. They do not trust his promise to keep Iraq united; they do not trust his promise of a road map to a Palestinian state. A legion of terrorists is being created by this war; and it is the US and the West that will reap this whirlwind.>>>>

To: A. Geiche who wrote (383993)	4/2/2003 7:51:02 AM
From: jerry manning	Respond to of 769668

The Germans hate us? Please say it is not so... I was stationed in Germany for seven years, I speak German, I have German friends there. They don't hate. You know nothing of the German people. You know nothing of the human race. You just know hate. You sad creature of hate.

To: A. Geiche who wrote (383993)	4/2/2003 9:47:13 AM
From: Jerrel Peters	Respond to of 769668

So the truth comes out! You are really a closet nazi that is scared to step both feet out of the closet. You hide behind the door and dribble your hate through a crack. Lest you forget: Subject: German ingrates! A Brief History of Germany: 1871 - Bismarck founds modern Germany. 1890 - Bismarck sacked, warmonger Wilhelm II takes direct control. 1914 - Germany starts World War I. 1914-1918 - Germany kills millions of people. 1917 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war. 1918 - Germany loses World War I. 1920's - Germans try democracy. 1933 - Germans reject democracy, allow Hitler to take power. 1939 - Germany starts World War II. 1939-1945 - Germany kills millions of people. 1941 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war. 1945 - Germany loses World War II. 1946 - Germans whine about lack of food, America gives billions in food aid to feed them. 1947 - Germans whine about crappy economy, America gives billions in Marshall Plan aid to rebuild German economy. 1948-1949 - America puts ass on line and risk WW3 to save a few Berliners from Soviet hordes. 1949 - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established. 1950's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1950's - German 'economic miracle' occurs while America keeps watch on Soviet hordes. 1955 - NATO formed to protect West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1960's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1960's - German students protest war in Vietnam and American civil rights. 1963 - American President John Kennedy makes "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. 1970's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1970's - Germans form the Marxist terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). 1970's - Leftist German guerrillas burn, loot, and plunder much of West Germany. 1980's - America spends tens of billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1980's - German leftist bitch about Pershing II missiles. 1987 - American President Ronald Reagan makes "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. 1989 - Gorbachev tears down Berlin Wall. 1990 - German Reunification. 1990's - America spends tens of billions to defend Germany from Islamic hordes. 1990's - Germany stands by as ethnic cleansing occurs in Balkans. 1993 - Germany joins European Union. 1995 - Americans send troops to Bosnia as Germans watch from the sidelines. 1997 - Germans finally send troops to Bosnia. 1998 - Hardline, left-of-left socialist come to power under Gerhard Schroeder. 1999 - American's lead air war to save Kosovo as Germans watch from the sidelines. 2001 - Schroeder offers solidarity to America after 9/11 attacks. 2002 - Schroeder bashes America to distract voters during election campaign. 2003 - Germany sees rise in anti-Americanism after several decades of poor treatment from America. AND YOU THOUGHT THE FRENCH WERE A BUNCH OF UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS?