IS AMERICA A BULLY?

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I'm delighted I have been an enlightening influence on you.

Keep on saying funny BS then. Just remember I have little patience for war crime apologists.

Not at all. I just want you to remain as delighted as you professed to be of your "enlightening influence" on me, and more and more everyday... It chagrined me to see you any less than delighted.

For those who don't like the fact that I am defending my country...

...TOUGH.

The suspicion was not widespread at the time. The only country that believed such nonsense was America because of your gung ho media. The rest of the world could tell it was nonsense.

Hans Blix was the one asking for more time not Saddam Hussein. He wasn't given more time because that would have proven there weren't any WMDs, and that was the last thing Bush wanted.

I never called you a liar, but you clearly want to believe something and facts be damned. Do you think that invading the North Pole is the only way to be sure that Santa doesn't exist?

Aliens is a very us and them term Dave.
With us or against us, that sort of thing.

The Boston bombers were aliens who formed negative impressions
of America and look what they went on to do. Maybe if someone
had taken an interest in their opinions they could have been thwarted.

The Boston bombers were aliens who formed negative impressions of America and look what they went on to do. Maybe if someone had taken an interest in their opinions they could have been thwarted.

There is a school of thought sometimes heard in America
that we shud craft our policy to appeal to the taste of collectivist
minded folks beyond our borders.

The Wolfowitz Doctrine is an unofficial name given to the initial version of the Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–99 fiscal years (dated February 18, 1992) authored by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy Scooter Libby.

Not intended for public release, it was leaked to the New York Times on March 7, 1992, and sparked a public controversy about U.S. foreign and defense policy. The document was widely criticized as imperialist as the document outlined a policy of unilateralism and pre-emptive military action to suppress potential threats from other nations and prevent any other nation from rising to superpower status.

Such was the outcry that the document was hastily re-written under the close supervision of U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell before being officially released on April 16, 1992.
Many of its tenets re-emerged in the Bush Doctrine, which was described by Senator Edward M. Kennedy as "a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept

A half baked plan with inadequate funds that failed in every single one of its objectives. It couldn't have gone better for Al Qaida if Bin Laden had planned the operation himself

Frank Apisa wrote:

For those who don't like the fact that I am defending my country...

...TOUGH.

You're not doing a very good job. You're making people focus on what America has done wrong. And your defence is based on imagination and no real evidence.

In many ways JTT has done a better job, because his personality is so repulsive that regardless of the veracity of what he posts, you end up feeling sorry for America.

he just pressed on regardless.

It was the first time our legislature refused an American request since WW2.

Can you think of anything positive to say about his (Bush)term in office?

To be honest Frank I'd rather think nicely of America than rake over the coals ad nauseam. I'm being honest with you about the effect I think your thread has had. Ask yourself has this thread had the desired outcome. I really don't think it has.

However, you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that as this is A2K, with a small audience, any damage to America's reputation is tiny and localised.

To be honest Frank I'd rather think nicely of America than rake over the coals ad nauseam. I'm being honest with you about the effect I think your thread has had. Ask yourself has this thread had the desired outcome. I really don't think it has.

However, you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that as this is A2K, with a small audience, any damage to America's reputation is tiny and localised.