Actually Jack, most Europeans don't hate or look down
on the USA at all. We actually admire your culture
and enterprise.

However we dislike your President and we hate his decision
to invade Iraq, in defiance of the United Nations and
for that matter common sense. If the most powerful
country in the World won't obey the rule of law, why
should any other state? I am only sorry the my country,
the United Kingdom, got involved, despite the biggest
protest march ever against this on the streets of London,
which included my good self.

I'm sorry, but I find myself cheering every time a
US soldier gets killed in Iraq. This is obviously not
at a personal level, so much as it serves your country
right! Blame your idiotic President and Donald Rumsfeld;
not the Iraqis who are only fighting to free their
own country. You value freedom, so why shouldn't they?

At the end of the day, what possible threat was Iraq
to the USA? As far as I can see, this was a revenge
attack for the World Trade Centre attrocity, which
was probably nothing to do with Iraq.

Derek C

At 02:24 27 May 2006, Jack wrote:
Quote: Jim,
This is the attitude that makes the USA the most hated
and looked down
upon country in the world right now. Too bad we still
have so many in
this country that don't understand humility.

Shawn,

What greater humility exists? Laying your life down
for the freedom of
your countrymen, as well as the freedom of the French
(who hate us),
the British ( who mostly hate us) the East Germans
(who hate us), the
Koreans, Chinese, and Vietnamese (who hate us), The
Iraquis, (who
definitely hate us.) All of them hate us until they
come over here to
our land of opportunity. Ask me if I give a crap about
who hates us.
I'm pretty sick of them, too. Fight your own wars or
give the fallen
American soldier his due respect. All of Europe would
be spending marks
and speaking German right now if not for American GIs.
For that matter,
China would be speaking Japanese. Let's not forget
that America was
trying it's best to stay out of that mess and all the
other wars it has
lead us to. It's a little bit like crying around about
America being
the only country that used a nuclear weapon. I'm not
sure where you
are, but had we not, your father might not have been
around, because he
would have been one of the million or so projected
casualties of the
Japanese invasion, that never took place.

On a day like Memorial Day, PLEASE take your pinko-commie
politics and
stick them squarely where the sun don't shine. You
need a dose of
humility, yourself. For your info, I almost got my
ass shot off in
Vietnam and I have no tolerance for people like you
on Memorial Day.
And by the way, I don't think anyone really looks DOWN
on us.
Misinformed people like you that don't know history
are bound to repeat
it. I pray that you're not an American, that I almost
died for. If you
are, and you are so upset about the rest of the jealous
world hating
us, why not move out of the country and join them.
My son's in Iraq
right now. I certainly wouldn't trade his life for
yours.

In other words... **** up a rope.

Jim Culp, THANK YOU!

Jack Womack