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06-21-2005, 01:16 PM
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The world should be kissing our feet!
It just fascinates me that the US is so vilified by the world and even people in our own country. Don’t they realize that the only thing that has kept them from enslavement is the US Constitution? Think about it – in the 20’s 30’s 40’s and 50’s we could have crushed most countries like bugs – but we didn’t. We gave Europe back twice and the Far East back once. Imagine for a moment that all that power was in a monarchy. Was there a more colonial or imperial president than Teddy Roosevelt? If Teddy had been king the middle east would be a territory now, once FDR succeeded him in the Roosevelt dynasty Canada and Mexico would be added to the list. Europe would all be Soviet Satellite states.
No matter how incompetent (Grant, Carter) or corrupt (Buchanan, Nixon, Clinton) the president has been, they have had at least the bare respect for that single document. It’s very possible that without that document FDR or Truman could have cut a deal with the Soviets and the Chinese to slice the world up three ways. If that happened who could have stopped it? Not bad for a bunch of rebel drunks in the 1700’s 
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06-21-2005, 01:19 PM
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Re: The world should be kissing our feet!
...wake up Neo...the Matrix has you....
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06-21-2005, 01:26 PM
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It just fascinates me that the US is so vilified by the world and even people in our own country. Don’t they realize that the only thing that has kept them from enslavement is the US Constitution? Think about it – in the 20’s 30’s 40’s and 50’s we could have crushed most countries like bugs – but we didn’t. [/ QUOTE ] You really have no idea why the US is so vilified because you don't know the role that US "advisors" played in supporting corrupt dictatorships and suppressing more-legitimate populist movements worldwide. If you support corrupt dictatorships who behave in an inhumane way, you aren't that much better than they are. The fact is so easily grasped by people worldwide and yet so utterly lost on many Americans it is rather astonishing.
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06-21-2005, 06:32 PM
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Re: Public Enemy No. 1
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I'd be interesting in knowing which "corrupt dictatorships" the US is currently supporting. [/ QUOTE ] ummm... are you kidding? pakistan? russia? saudi arabia? half of central and southern america? CHINA? etc... (though some of these call themselves democracies or monarchies or republics or whatever)
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06-22-2005, 12:11 PM
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Re: Public Enemy No. 1
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what do you think we should we be doing about our relationships with these countries? [/ QUOTE ] I will chime in here. You hear a lot from the right about how bad the UN is. The fact is that the UN does not limit our sovereignty like the WTO does. So what should we do? Economic embargo! No products from any countries that commits widespread abuse of human rights go in or out of the country. This includes China, Pakistan, Egypt, and other countries like Russia and Israel are put on notice. Of course we need oil, so this means we can't stop trading with the Saudis. However, I think the Saudi's treat thier people so bad invading might be the best solution. That way we secure our oil, but more importantly women don't have to live in fear of gang rape, stoning, and being burned alive if they allow too much hair to show from under thier viel.
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06-21-2005, 02:02 PM
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Re: The world should be kissing our feet!
The only appropriate response to this drivel is:
"America fu.ck yea coming again to save the motherfu.cking world yea." *Team America-World Police.
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06-22-2005, 01:20 AM
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Re: The world should be kissing our feet!
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The only appropriate response to this drivel is: "America fu.ck yea coming again to save the motherfu.cking world yea." *Team America-World Police. [/ QUOTE ] LOL!! I loved that movie: it goofed on the right and left heavily. Very funny! -ptmusic
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