Hahahahahaha! Jean SCHMIDT's personal essay!!!

THIS juvenile jingoistic tripe is from a CONGRESSWOMAN? What does she think, the Iraqis are a bunch of cave people? "We watch them from space with technology they cannot even imagine." :rofl:

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For Immediate Release Contact: (202) 225-3164

August 1, 2006

Why Do They Hate Us?

Washington, D.C. - The Middle East has been a synonym for diplomatic challenges our whole lives. I hope that our children one day can tell their children it is the home of the Holy Land and no further explanation is needed.

We live in a world where trouble seems to be abundant. The world has become a much smaller place and at the same time increasingly more complex.

Our foreign policy for the last half century has been described by the word appeasement. It means that we were willing to support a dictator's oppression of his people as long as he did what we needed. We simply ignored the screams of his victims in exchange for regular trade or some such thing.

Some ask what is it that we did to these people to deserve their hatred. You have to step back and put yourself in their shoes to really find an answer.

On every continent in every corner of the planet you will find people that know of the United States of America. The United States is not just another country to them, we are utopia. The United States is a collection of wealth, might, and technology mixed into a culture where freedom is abundant.

Some people are oppressed by dictators, some by Mother Nature, others by disease, still more by economics. Regardless of the cause, the oppressed all share the same misery, tears, and despair.

Tonight, people are going to bed without food for yet another day. They know we have abundant food. Yet, we do not offer a helping hand. Some sleep in the prisons of their oppressors. They know we have the might to free them. But, we do not come. More lie in their death beds knowing that we have the treatments to save them, yet none is prescribed.

The United States is the kindest, most generous country to ever exist on this planet. We spend billions all over the world feeding, caring, protecting, and building.

It is easy to understand that when you know your liberator and he does not come, it must mean he doesn't care. Hearts begin to fill with hate. Evil takes root. Soon all of your problems only exist because the United States failed to solve them.

A young soldier in Baghdad told me a story of a local Iraqi who had questioned him. The local Iraqi wanted to know how a country as powerful and advanced as the United States could possibly send a man to the moon, defeat one of the world's largest armies in hours, and yet still not have the power restored to his apartment.

The Iraqi's perception is that we are all powerful. We watch them from space with technology they cannot even imagine. Surely if we wanted to turn on his electricity we could do so. He has no idea how large the problem is but he knows we can do anything. He was angry. Eventually his air conditioning began running and his anger cooled. :wtf:

My point is the hatred towards America isn't always based on what we did but often simply not living up to the beliefs of what the oppressed think we are capable of doing.

Some are angry because in the past we made mistakes that compounded or even extended their misery. Many are angry because we fail to live up to their expectations. Ronald Reagan once said that our opposition is not ignorant it is just that so much of what they believe is just not true. :crazy:

Today we are in a public relations battle across the globe. In this battle two things remain very important to keep in mind. First, we must understand the impressions and beliefs the suffering have of our capacity measured against our most generous efforts. Lastly, no matter how angry they become at the United States Government they do not let their anger diminish their beliefs that our country is the greatest most envied on earth.

For the United States the lesson must be -- as we head down a different path of foreign diplomacy - Evil that is ignored is indeed Evil that is assisted. The oppressed will always remember.

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/oh02_schmidt/whydo.html

:crazy: :dunce:

I don't know what else to say except: WHAT A FUCKING MORON.

:silly:

Christians, beware.

lightening too :rofl:

that the Internets tubes go all the way to Baghdad . . .

because you gotta read it to believe it.

"Our foreign policy for the last half century has been described by the word appeasement."

Last half century, i.e. 1956-2006.

Presidents: Eisenhower. (R)
Kennedy. (D)
Johnson. (D)
Nixon. (R)
Ford. (R)
Carter. (D)
Reagan. (R)
Bush. (R)
Clinton. (D)
Bush. (R)

So six out of the last 10 Presidents, for 30 of those 50 years, were Republicans. Who has been responsible for all the "appeasement"?

And who has the worst track record of cozying up to totalitarian goons?

http://www.priceofliberty.net/wp-content/images/!!!!bush_kiss.jpg

It sounds good to her. Don't try to make sense of it. :crazy:

The Iraqis hate us because we can't get their electricity running as easily as they think we should because we are so all powerful

Geez I thought they

hated us because we blew up their infrastructure - unable to repair the damage we cause and that they were better off under Saddam then they are now and oh also we're responsible for anywhere from 100K to 300K DEAD Iraqis - might that be why they hate us?

How do such freaking morans get into Congress or the WH for that matter - oh I remember its the voting macines stupid.

...and we never call?

You da RAT! :hi:

...of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" ?

SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Is the soldier a relative?

"<horses nay in the background>"

She is exactly like that Donnie Darko character. Narrow minded, self-righteousness, devoid of any shred of intellectual curiosity, and grasping with all her might to what little power she has. Pathetic. Sad and pathetic.

You get the prize. You fucking NAILED IT. :rofl: :woohoo:

from retching cramps :puke:

"The United States is the kindest, most generous country to ever exist on this planet. We spend billions all over the world feeding, caring, protecting, and building. ............ Many are angry because we fail to live up to their expectations. Ronald Reagan once said that our opposition is not ignorant it is just that so much of what they believe is just not true."


"The oppressed will always remember."

hopefully they live in her voting district.

dp

Which is it you useless sack of crap.

This bit of tripe sounds a lot like that old colonial "white man's burden" crap -- she seems to think that all those poor, benighted little brown people desperately want what we've got and now they're angy because the Great White Bwana hasn't brought them their trinkets and beads and aluminum pots so they don't have to cook in handmade clay pots over fires they made by rubbing sticks together. "Technology they can't even imagine" -- Jeebus on a pogo stick! Excuse me, Frau Blucher, but the Iraqis are not some Stone Age tribe who live in caves and wear animal hides; they have cell phones and computers and the Internet, which they used to be able to use pretty well before we fucked up their country.

In fact, Jeanne, you pinhead, may be surprised to learn that most countries have the same technology we have, and in some places it's better. We aren't Number One all the time, and the reason a lot of the rest of the world is pissed off at us is *not* because they envy our "superiority."

before we fucked up their country.'

You said a mouthful.

and babe, ronald reagan cut and ran from lebanon.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/2007politicalcalendars.htm

her "thoughts' are priceless in their overwhelming idiocy.

Where the fuck to you think terrorist comes from.
How the the fuck do you think they are created.

Why dont you yourself look at the wisdom of your own words.

That's a fact jack. :shrug:

Truly it does. (shaking head)

:thumbsup:

Peoria finally wake up to what has been done to America by lawmakers such as Schmidt in the name of democracy. It will be mob anger on a scale unseen before in this country.

pitchforks and torches. An angry mob chasing corrupt politicians running for their lives is definitely a force to reckon with!

the country. Of course they are needed "to do the jobs that Americans will not do." :sarcasm: But also the powers that be will always have a willing militia to protect them from the masses. Privatized armies here at home. See, the newcomers are interested only in the job...and the paycheck. They will have no vested interest in what this country "used to be" and "what we have lost" through the greed and corruption of those political and corporate leaders. As far as newcomers are concerned, there was no "life" in America before they arrived.

When the national treasury is totally depleted, when social security is no more, when those funds have been siphoned off and safely tucked away into private bank accounts, when businesses have all been allowed to set up headquarters offshore so that they no longer have to pay taxes in America, when all the jobs that can be moved offshore have been moved, when their children are screaming for $200 blue jeans and $800 shoes that only cost $2 and $5 to make in foreign sweatshops, when the cost of sending their child to college is tantamount to actually buying the entire university, when a visit to the doctor costs as much as a new car, when they no longer have oil for heating and gas for cars, when prices far exceed incomes....when America sits bankrupt atop of mountain of aging nuclear weapons that it will never use....and continues to build even more useless weaponry...when it is proven that the world's greatest superpower is shown to have neither a heart nor a brain...

THEN THE MASSES OF AMERICANS WILL WAKE UP!

I MEAN SPECIFICALLY, THE MASSES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO HAVE BOUGHT INTO THE LIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION AND BLINDED THEMSELVES TO ITS POLICY-SETTING CORPORATE PARTNERS!

THE AMERICANS WHO STILL BLAME BILL CLINTON FOR EVERY PROBLEM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS BROUGHT UPON ITSELF!

But...by then.....


Edit: typo

She needs to get out more often if she thinks other countries look at the US as utopia!!!!

Perhaps it was a symbol of integrity and justice at one time but certainly not now!!

So what was the point of that letter? It seems to me that most of it talks about how great the US is and how wrong it is for people in other countries to be angry at us!

Usually, when a politician sends me a letter, it's because they want to make a statement or ask for help. As I read it, this letter does neither!

Did her staff allow her to put this out without cleaning it up, or were they howling after she left the office? Can one imagine: "Oh, man, look what that bitch did now" "This is gold, dude, pure gold. I win that $100 bet I have with the senior senator from Alaska's chief of staff on who would say or write the dumbest thing in the next month. Tubes were last week. I'll just send him an internet and and if it's not clogged up, ask for my C-note now."

someone needs to have an anedote nearby. Maybe a John Dean or Al Franken book on the desk? That way it could counter the effects.

But I'm still buried in Katharine Graham's Washington.

I've read better essays written by kids in middle school

i always love to laugh at dumb ass right wingers but then i think about how people actually VOTED for them to make decisions concerning their lives and the world, and we pay them to do it and it's scary.

but then i have to laugh again at the ridiculousness of it all. we are paying dumb shits like this to make decisions that affect us because people actually voted for this shittttttt?

people VOTED FOR this shit ????????????

HAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

think about the person who went into the voting booth and voted for this person. what type of person sees and listens to this and thinks "i think they should represent me" .

Great observation!

"what type of person sees and listens to this and thinks "i think they should represent me" .

Sad.

to do away with Evil? Saddam was an evil man. Yes, we know. That still doesn't change the fact that we recieved nothing but lies to go to war. What about all the other "evil" dictators in the world? Why aren't we there? I love the way she states, "a different path of foreign diplomacy" as if we will forget what got us in Iraq. What a bitch! We are in the ME to control it and anyone who supports this arrogant PNAC dream is complicit. That's you Schmidt!

... because I know these are serious subjects, but I can't help it!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Especiall your "crazy eyes" after this one: "Ronald Reagan once said that our opposition is not ignorant it is just that so much of what they believe is just not true. :crazy:"