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Perhaps better PR would help.

All you hear the US doing overseas is bombing countries into the ground...

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Because that is all the media wishes to report as it drives up views and or readers. Think bigger, don't let the media dictate your opinion. Ya the media would love nothing better than to convince the world that all the US military is out to do is bomb little helpless people back into the stone age. Give me a f***ing break.

Don't buy into the propaganda. Just think for yourselves for a God damn change and ask yourselves some questions. Like why would the US bomb said country into the ground.... Hummm could it be because there is a larger goal or issue at stake? I don't know and I really don't want to speculate. All I know is that we are not doing this simply to do it as the world media has seemed to decree. In fact who the hell are these SOB's that they can tell you and I what to think and what we should believe? They are nothing more than rich SOB's out to make themselves richer off of our interest in whats going on. They cast the US in a bad light and feed the fires of resentment not over fair and accurate news, but over the all mighty green back, deutch mark, frank, rupple, pound, Loonie, or whatever the hell your currancy is. They are telling us what they think we should know in such a way as to stir the fricking pot. The truth died long ago and with it, any resemblence of real news. Hell if it were Bill Clinton doing this the UN would be selling seats like it was major sporting event. "Come one come all, come get rich quick off the scams we running now." The world media would be casting the insurgance in Iraq as the blood thristy criminals they really are and not has the heroic freedom fighters that they are NOT.

I shudder to think of Bill Clinton as SG of the UN.. OMFG NO!!!! And his slevok wife as the President of the USA.. ... No Way In Hell that should ever be allowed to happen. My god the USA would become a puppet nation to the UN.

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Oh ya, just for the record, I know that if the crap really came down, our friends the Canadians, Mexicans, and even a few over seas would stand with us. We might bicker back and fourth about this right now, but in 20 years, 50 years, or even a 100 years from now NONE of this will matter. So why waste your time debating it now?

Trust me it won't change a thing, and all it will do is tick a lot of people off at one another that otherwise wouldn't be mad at each other. I say take your opinions and hard line attitudes on over to PBW and hash em out over a nice game of SEIV. Hell play as countries, winner take all.

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Maybe everyone here needs to take a break? This is getting a little too heated.

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I *can't* PBW.

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How soon all the Europeans forget that they always call on "The Good Old USA" when they need something dirty done.
Why didn't the EU take care of the genocide that happened in Bosnia before the US got involved?

Now I'm not saying I agree with the current administration's actions (Bush WASN'T my choice) but don't lump all of America in one box and mark it EEEVIL!
There are power hungry leaders in every country on Earth.

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I know... but in the US it is far, far more evident than in any ohter country. I agree that Bosnia was a black eye for Europe, but I think Iraq was a black eye for the US.

However, IMO Afghanistan was a feather in the US's cap. We've never heard any important news from there in over a year. For as far as I know, Afghanistan is now a peaceful, free country. But to say there is an "Axis of Evil"... is a very big black eye for the US.

(So... someone else here read Catch-22?)

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Really? Ever hear of North Korea?

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More evident WORLDWIDE. So far, North Korea hasn't been that much of a worldwide influence. The US HAS. Now, I say again, I have nothing against American people in general; but it is the American government and their policy that I detest.

As said before, by someone:
In under four years' time Bush's term will have ended, and then the world can celebrate.

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That's because Nork nukes have a limited range. But there are about 2 billion people and some influential countries who are directly or indirectly affected by the North Korean Crisis. If North Korean nukes could reach Europe, you wouldn't be saying that.