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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 11:00 PM
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Please do not ask why we "hate" you
Edited on Mon Jun-21-04 11:01 PM by Eloriel
Putting aside the simplistic and dichotomic nature of such a question -- "you're either with us or against us," your great leader says -- let me give you my straight answer: I don't.

But, I hate what your government is doing in your name, with your tax money, and with solid support from most of you. I despise the fact that your country is sponsoring Israeli colonial oppression against my people, shielding Israel from the world's wrath and from the overdue prospect of sanctions for violating every applicable precept of international law in maintaining its military occupation and illegal colonies in the West Bank and Gaza, its racial discrimination against its own Palestinian citizens and its obdurate rejection of the internationally protected right of our refugees to return to the lands from which Israel had expelled them, and on the ruins of which it had established itself.

I hate the way your mainstream media refers to our innocent victims, whether in Iraq or Palestine, as faceless numbers, as relative humans, as dispensable objects in your empire's crusade for world domination.

I hate the repugnant hubris of your "elected" lawmakers, who owe their seats and privileges to a few very powerful lobbies controlling your lives and minds, and forming the pillar of American flouting of international law in every field imaginable. It is ironic that lawmakers anywhere can become such an infested breeding ground for lawlessness in international affairs.

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Your country is way too powerful now for anyone to have the guts to drag it to the international criminal court, where most of your leaders ought to stand trial; but if Rome is any example, I would not take solace in that transient strength. You have a clear moral, legal and political obligation to change your country's course. For the foreseeable future, it can afford to stay on its current path, crushing every head raised in resistance, and battering every soul that refuses to be enslaved, but this path has always led to one destination: utter defeat under the feat of the oppressed majority which will undoubtedly prevail, as it always has.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6228.htm

Edited to add a haunting site that I can't begin to describe, but it's must see: http://www.duckdaotsu.org/world_watches.html
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 11:16 PM
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1. Big, Bad Dick Cheney made the comment
"That we must be strong or we will be attacked"

And another reason is to avoid war crimes prosecution as noted in the article:

"Your country is way too powerful now for anyone to have the guts to drag it to the international criminal court, where most of your leaders ought to stand trial."

We spend more money on Defense than the next ten or so countries combined. There is no country to threaten us so that is why against the things we do that terrorism comes into being.

Our Corporate interests have unbalanced the world and our massive misused military has driven mutation of the radicals into worldwide effort against us. We find no solace old and now alienated Friends.

Where will the need for more power lead us Dick?
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Proud_Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 11:18 PM
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2. This is horrifying
I tried telling my freeper friends that this would be the result of our march towards war. I heard crazy talk in return, repeating some false statements and figures they heard on Faux, never making any sense, but feeling so righteous. It's all coming truth and the freepers still refuse to open their eyes.

They are simply cold and heartless about the foreigners of a different culture who follows different beliefs. Our pain is real, but they deserve nothing. It made me sick then and now with all my suspicions confirmed with such little change in public awareness, I have to take a break from it now and then. It shatters my deepest soul to know that this country represents us people in such a brutal and arrogant manner. And to top it off, they are completely robbing the middle class in doing so.

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 11:26 PM
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3. Hate the evil, if you need to hate
Not the evil-doer.

- An Anonymous Republican Evagelical Preacher

most sensible thing he ever said.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 11:49 PM
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4. Thanks, Eloriel; good stuff. n/t
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