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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (1155)	7/18/2003 8:14:25 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

However, that still doesn't answer the question I posited. As bad as our government is when compared to ones that the philosophers write about, it is by far and away the "best" superpower of this or any time in the history of mankind. All governments consist of people and people who get to the top as rulers tend to abuse their power in one way or another. That opinion all depends upon your perspective. If you were an Iranian who had to live under the brutal rule of the Shah of Iran (whom the U.S. installed and supported for decades), or a Guatemalan who was living under a benficial democracy until the U.S. decided it would be best to install and support a brutal dictator, an action which sparked a 40 year civil war that killed 100,000s. You might have a different opinion about the U.S.'s superpower status. Don't be so ethnocentric. The whole world doesn't see things they way small-minded Americans see things. Surprise!

To: rrufff who wrote (1155)	7/18/2003 3:41:52 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 20039

Given all that, didn't we do the world, the Muslim peoples, the Iraqi people, the mideast a major favor by taking out a vicious, murderer who existed basically to plunder the wealth of Iraq. I don't think you'll find anyone outside the Baathist party who is not glad to see Saddam gone. Almost all of the protest I have seen centers on the way we went about it and the long-term costs of those actions, some of which are showing up now in the form of our major allies being unwilling to assist in in securing the peace.