Remember when the world was offering help, support and love to America?

Right after 9-11?

There was a universal damning of those responsible for such a heinous act. Arabs, Asians, Europeans, Africans... A very, very large majority of the world was on our side during those days just a few years ago.

And what did our leaders do with all that good will?

Through sheer arrogance and ineptitude, they spit in the world's face. They took a bad situation and made it worse. They have created legions of people who would be David to the Goliath of America that would have never considered it before.

With plans hatched years before the Twin Towers fell, they made an obligatory, half hearted effort to capture Bin Laden and establish a beach head for the impending invasion of Iraq. The oil men who lusted after what existed beneath the sands of Babylon exaggerated, cajoled and lied to try and convince the people that offered their support that Iraq was the reason for all things bad.

And when the rest of the world (with the exception of a few) did not see the threat that these men from Texas saw, we called them "Old Europe, Surrender Monkeys... a plethora of adjectives designed to bolster the weaker minded base of the Bush administration lending credence to the call to war.

Those days are gone, the damage has been done. It will take generations to repair the damage that these people have done to our country... if it can ever be undone.

Hey world, there are a lot of Americans who are just as concerned, frightened and anxious about America today. We're trying to change things, but our enemy is powerful. Our enemy is entrenched. Our enemy is evil...

Our enemy is us.

Wake up America. There's a piper to pay and it won't be cheap.

Peace.

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We all are not neanderthals.

You are right, the entire world condemned the attacks and offered help and sympathy for America.

What an incredible opportunity for the US to develop loyal allies at all four corners of the globe.

And George Bush pissed it all away in less than two years.

have seen some grand mistakes, but the ones this administration has made and is making are of a flavor that it's hard to tell if it's a mistake or part of a plan.

These days I'm constantly reminded of a quote from the man who was president longer than anyone in US history, FDR ...

"Nothing happens by accident, if it happens in politics, you better believe it was planned that way"

Turning surpluses into huge record deficits.

Giving Europe and most of the world the finger after 911.

Letting the Iraq insurgents cart off hundreds of football sized buildings full of hi-tech explosives.

Gutting FEMA and then letting the people in NO sit and roast and starve, then passing out blank checks and no-bid contracts to their cronies.

Also reminds me of Bartcops rule #2 .. If someone makes a mistake and profits from it, you can expect them to make that mistake over and over again.

Hopefully this will all end with a big round of prison terms.

We could have captured OBL in no time, with plenty of help from other nations. But, Nooooooooooooooooo...!

Those corrupt, heartless barbarians do NOT NOT NOT represent our people. I SWEAR!!!!!

They are so damned criminal that they have INTENTIONALLY DECEIVED AND BETRAYED THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN ORDER TO MANIPULATE THEM INTO SUPPORTING WHAT THEY WOULD OTHERWISE NEVER FUCKING EVER SUPPORT!!!!

That's the TRUTH!!!

and it hurts. If they did not deceived us on purpose, they are by far the stupidest admin in history

between the American admin/govt and the people.

I think it is generally accepted that Governments around the world don't represent the opinions of all their citizens (only freepers and other sick fucks think in black/white, with us or against us)

By way of example, plenty of countries offerred assistance after Katrina, even countries that clearly couldn't really afford to do so.

Also (and quite remarkably) the rest of the world still has a somewhat free press. We can see the dissent, we can see the controversy, we can see the silly chimp.

I don't think it will take too long to restore America's standing per se (a few illegal/immoral wars don't count, we're pretty used to it, and some of us are complicit :-( )

But it might take a while to get things back on track for those of you actually in the US.

I wish you well with that.

Bush did not come to power in a vacuum.

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