why are anti american hate monger so stupid?

[A Black Falcon]

Hmm... the Iraqi people have suffered a lot. Between Sadaam and the US blockade they haven't had much of a chance... before the Gulf War Iraq had very good hospitals. 12 years of blockade completely eroded that... I'm sure that the 500,000 is completely accurate. People there, especially children, have been dying of all kinds of diseases and injuries that they never would here... the blockade completely destroyed their medical capabilities. It really was a tragedy... Sadaam, the supposed target of the blockade, still got richer while the poor people died by the thousands... now I know we needed some kind of blockade but it could have been more humane.

As for now... Iraq desperately, desperately needs money for rebuilding its power, water, roads, hospitals, etc... and since its our fault that they are trashed now we should pay to fix it. Its really only fair... since it IS our fault, without question. Yes, its expensive, but Bush should have thought of these things beforehand! Now we don't have a choice.


The issue of the Iraqis hating us, as many of them do, is a very serious one. While most of them do think that getting rid of Sadaam was good, they also want us to leave. Now. The longer we're there the incrementally more the violence will be... many Iraqis already support the terrorists and their numbers will increase if things continue as they are. So, what should we do. First, we've got to give the UN a mandate. That would go a long way to alleviating the fears of the majority of the popultion. Then, we've got to get more non-US troops in, to share the burden and show we aren't just there by ourselves to exploit the nation. Also, we've got to rebuild the infrastructure. No one will ever like us as long as their power is off and their water mains broken... and then we've got to get them to agree on some kind of government and have elections... without letting them go the way of Iran, which might be tricky. I don't know what to do about that one...

The third one of those is possible, but with this administration I don't think the other three will happen. We'll keep trying to do it by ourselves and it just won't work anywhere near as well as it would with an international alliance... our only real hope is that the situation won't be completely hopeless by 2005 so that once Bush loses (he MUST lose for there to be any chance of a good solution to the Iraq question...) something can be done.

As for the isreali Palestinians conflict, Alot of people are sick of it ,The Jews decisions were what lead to this madness for decades. When they captured land during the war they never thought about keeping the peace and forgiving their enemy and handing it back. Try to be a peacemaker like god taught Abraham.
So instead they quickly built towns and villages all over it and left the Palestine with almost little shreads of nothing very simular to what the europeans did too the native aboriginals who lived in north america , They put them in resserves and bassicly licked up everything around it.In the orginal agreement the land would be split 50/50 but now its more like 70/30.

Nope. British Palestine was both Israel and Jordan, remember! The Palestinians could have just gone to Jordan, which is well over 2/3rds of the original nation... but they didn't because they hate the Jews and wanted to cause as much trouble as possible. The Arabs could easily have avoided the whole issue had they wanted to, but they wanted (and still want) it bad, not healed, so they don't try.

Sure, Israel is far from perfect, but its doing better than the Arabs are at trying for peace...