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Originally posted by HiveLordJim:
I think it very hypocritical of a North American (U.S. in particular) to criticise another country for human rights violations.
Your cities are founded on the sites of villages your “Forefathers” massacred; your soil fertilised with the carcases of millions of Native Americans; your economy was built upon the backs of tens of millions of African slaves.
“The Constitution” which espouses equality among men was constructed by slave owners while they hired immigrants to murder women and children.
All true, and all totally irrelevant to the conversation at hand. You are bringing up evils that the united states has committed over 100 years ago. Everybody guilty of these crimes you mention is dead and buried. Tianamin square was
TEN years ago. The parties responsible for that are still in power in many cases.
Besides the fact that almost
every nation in the world today exsists over the bones of some displaced or massacered indigenous population.
"Give Europe back to the Cro-Magnon Man! They were there first!"
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The U.S. is the ONLY country in the world EVER to have used a nuclear weapon against another people – its effects still being felt by the civilians they were used on.
Uh, yeah. This is true to, only beacuse we were the first to develop it. You don't think Hitler or Tojo would have loved dropping the nuke on us if they had got it first? And the fact remains that more Japanese lives would have been lost in an invasion than were lost in the two atomic bobms that were dropped.
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The U.S. was one of the first nations of the industrial age (if not the first ever) to use germ warfare against another people (evil Saddam indeed).
Uh, when did we do this? I know we developed germ warfare, but they were never used. We used chemical agents in Vietnam, but those weren't designed to kill or maim people. They were designed to clear foilage so enemy positions could be discovered.
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The U.S. government has a 225 year history of greed and treachery in regard to foreign policy.
While delaying coming to the aid of a world at war U.S governments and U.S. companies sell weapons to the enemies of their allies.
Your people are so proud of what they have achieved. The reason you are the most hated country in the world is not because of your success, it’s because you are not ashamed of how you achieved that success.
Whatever.
Geo
[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 19 July 2001).]