WWIII: America's Asking For It (710 hits)
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Submitted by <Winkey Brown-Eye> (View user info) at 2005-04-01 13:49:29 EST
Here's the current scenario:
- world superpower
- large military
- technologically advanced
- complete disregard for human life outside own country
Of course that last one might need a little clearing up.
You see, the US has a large military.
With such a large military comes large military funding.
However, you need to justify the need for such a large military in order to keep it.
To do this you need to keep coming up with causes and wars to fight.
But, because of the technological research done by the US military they're a frightening force and nobody will step up because it will simply draw attention to themselves. It's far too much like a elementary school playground and the US is the bully.
Compare the US to Nazi Germany. Seriously. Genocide aside, look at the attitudes. The American government has the population trained so well that there's really nothing they can't get away with. Throw the peasants a bone, some mockery of a shitty excuse, and invade. No problem.
I love to use Iraq as an example.
US: WMDs.
But wait, the UN said no.
US: Go in anyway, fuck the rest of the world! We're the USA damnit!
Basically, the US is throwing their weight around far too much and it's becoming far more arrogant that most of it's populace realises. I'm sure most have never thought about it.
Anyway, whether i explained it clearly or not that's the jist of my opinion.
For the record: I don't hate Americans. Too difficult to lay the blame of those that abuse the power of a corrupt society at the feet of the general public.
Yar.
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Submitted by Rads_wife (user info) at 2005-06-13 23:32:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-05 16:04:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by cowstastegood (user info) at 2005-04-01 16:23:35 (#)
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Are you trying to make most heated or something?
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naw, i was just bored at work and decided to rile up the natives.
mission accomplished though, it adequately entertained me through a fairly boring afternoon.
Submitted by Auf-Der-Maur (user info) at 2005-04-02 11:24:44 EST (#)
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Yeah, nearly half this country hates the current administration, and that means we are all trained to do whatever the President tells us.
I'm glad you understand world politics so well, douche
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-04-02 10:44:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by r1nce (user info) at 2005-04-01 23:02:58 (#)
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+2 to alleviate some of the instant -2 patriotism posts.
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True, and it's tempting, but my conscience would not let me rest unless I gave this a -2.
This point was so badly made it made me want to scratch at the surface of my eyeballs with this stanley knife.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-04-02 10:35:55 EST (#)
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Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-04-01 23:17:30 (#)
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Anyone who mentions the UN with any seriousness deserves a kick to the groin.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-04-01 23:17:51 EST (#)
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I can't say I agree that there's gonna be a WW3, but the nazi thing is true.
Besides genocide, the American psyche is one that
"We are Americans. We are the greatest. USA USA!" Compare with
"We are Aryan Germans. We are the Greatest. Sieg Heil!"
And your actions are just the same too.
But then again, apart from the joo-bashing the nazis weren't as amazingly bad as everyone says.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-04-01 23:17:30 EST (#)
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Anyone who mentions the UN with any seriousness deserves a kick to the groin.
Submitted by r1nce (user info) at 2005-04-01 23:02:58 EST (#)
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+2 to alleviate some of the instant -2 patriotism posts.
Submitted by cowstastegood (user info) at 2005-04-01 16:23:35 EST (#)
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Are you trying to make most heated or something?
Submitted by EscapeArtist (user info) at 2005-04-01 16:03:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:50:09 (#)
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i can smell the -2 train a rollin'
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All Aboard!
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-04-01 15:40:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:52:18 (#)
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there was somehting i was going to say.......damn, it slipped my mind......SHIT....wait wait wait...it's coming.....i think...wait...um, wait for it....here it comes...oh yeah....blow me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Submitted by rurumon (user info) at 2005-04-01 15:25:44 EST (#)
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Wow! Comparing America to Nazi Germany! I've never heard that before! Congratulations, you have successfully introduced a salient and ingenious new concept previously not mentioned 2 billion times before! The best part is, you were able to include such rigorous evidence and cold hard facts that everyone is sure to agree with you!
Submitted by ardubs (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:52:14 EST (#)
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You should probably come armed with knowledge and facts instead of speculation and opinion when commenting on such a perilous subject, aside from the fact that it's really quite obvious.
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:39:20 EST (#)
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For some real content:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/56035
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:32:00 EST (#)
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good stuff congo.
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:30:54 EST (#)
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>>>Compare the US to Nazi Germany. Seriously. Genocide aside, look at the attitudes.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
"Genocide aside, blah blah blah."
Yeah, let's just handwave that inconvenient little "genocide" thing that blows your argument to shit. I mean, other than that trifling organized mass execution of millions, the US compares so closely to Nazi Germany!
(standard disclaimer about "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..." goes here)
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:30:47 EST (#)
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hell hould
never said the two were connected. just that each were the reason to going in the first place. the political 'official' reason is a bunch of crap.
Submitted by nrduncan (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:30:29 EST (#)
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>>> Compare the US to Nazi Germany
I stopped reading there.
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:29:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:19:58 (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:50:09 (#)
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i can smell the -2 train a rollin'
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awesome.
iraq. oil is being sabatoged because the locals know that's why the yankeepigdogs are there to start with.
the afghani pipeline stands to make the new 'democracy' and their country some money. good. a govt. that was set up by the US and probably will make the bush family some money as well.
and i'm not even bothering with the retarded testosterone filled responce i got from college guy.
Submitted by HellHound (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:29:06 EST (#)
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Gnome:
I'm wondering how, exactly, you think the Iraqi oil is going to get to the Afghani pipeline, what with Iran being in the way and all. Unless you'd like to claim that Iran Is Next?
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:25:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:22:20 (#)
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Actually Domeand the Tamil tigers are in Sri Lanka, but your point is still valid.
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My mistake, and you're absolutely right, indoninja.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:22:20 EST (#)
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Let's see...French in the Ivory Coast, India/Pakistan in Kashmir, Abu Sayyaf in Phillipines, Tamil Tigers in Indonesia....right no money involved in any of those things, right?
With regards tot he second paragraph, you can remove the word "US" and replace it with any other country on the globe and it will be equally true.
Just admit it. This is a hastily conceived post from a biased viewpoint with little to no foundation. You can be forgiven, but not if you cling to ignorance."""
Actually Domeand the Tamil tigers are in Sri Lanka, but your point is still valid.
Submitted by Chronicles_of_College_Guy (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:20:44 EST (#)
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But seriously, (disregarding our lack of genoicide, our lack of an ethnic superiority doctrine, our foreign aid contributions, and our support of democratic systems over totalitarian ones) you have such a great point.
But I don't want to discredit you. I think that this war does need to take place. Let's have at it. I'm sick of all this "Death will come to the American Empire" talk.
Come on, pussies. If you don't like us, then take us on. If you really hate America as much as you say you do and we're really as bad as the fucking Nazis, then come and get us. We're just sitting over here for Christ's sake.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:20:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:04:42 (#)
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democracies? puppet governments set up by the US gotv. so that it looks like they went in for humanitarian reasons.
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Puppet govt's? If we controlled them than why are so many leaders people who support/have been supported by Iran?
Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:19:58 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:50:09 (#)
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i can smell the -2 train a rollin'
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CHOO! CHOO!!!
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Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:19:47 EST (#)
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it just so happens that Iraq holds huge oil reserves.
it just so happens that Afghanistan is now having a rather large pipeline run across it to get oil through.
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Jeebus fucking Christmas on a can. You "it's all about oil" people make me want to puke.
http://www.energybulletin.net/3291.html There's your fucking Afghani pipeline, which stands to make a lot of money for the *Afghani* government and investment partners in -Asia- Oh, and Turkmenistan too, since it's their gas and oil that the pipeline is for. Sounds like they make out the best.
Iraq does hold some oil reserves. some rather large ones. I agree on that point. Do you see us lining up at the gas pumps to get our 75 cents/gallon of gas? NO. Those oil fields remain under the control of the Iraqi government, do they not? Where are we benefitting from that oil and gas, when the pipelines are sabotaged nearly daily, and the country is barely producing enough to handle its own needs right now?
Ah, wait, we decided to lessen our reliance on middle east oil by going into ANWR up in Alaska.
Come on man, put the pieces together. Convienient excuse for conspiracy theorists.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:16:53 EST (#)
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Let's see...French in the Ivory Coast, India/Pakistan in Kashmir, Abu Sayyaf in Phillipines, Tamil Tigers in Indonesia....right no money involved in any of those things, right?
With regards tot he second paragraph, you can remove the word "US" and replace it with any other country on the globe and it will be equally true.
Just admit it. This is a hastily conceived post from a biased viewpoint with little to no foundation. You can be forgiven, but not if you cling to ignorance."""
I like not having to type.
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:14:02 EST (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:59:05 (#)
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just dont.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:13:43 EST (#)
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forgiven eh?
well hastily conceived, yes. i threw it together rather quickly. but a rant that i've had for a while that i just threw down.
and do i think the US is alone in this? no. there are a lot of others in the same boat but being next door i tend to see a little more of that you kids' govt. is up to more than other places.
so, yes, you could replace the US in the second paragraph with others, but i still see the US govt. as the worst offender.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:10:01 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:03:31 (#)
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what everybody else doesn't do is bully other nations or invade of false pretences for monetary reasons.
the US, like everywhere else, has a lot of great people in it. no arguement.
it's powerful are corrupt and willing to do horrible things for personal gain.
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Let's see...French in the Ivory Coast, India/Pakistan in Kashmir, Abu Sayyaf in Phillipines, Tamil Tigers in Indonesia....right no money involved in any of those things, right?
With regards tot he second paragraph, you can remove the word "US" and replace it with any other country on the globe and it will be equally true.
Just admit it. This is a hastily conceived post from a biased viewpoint with little to no foundation. You can be forgiven, but not if you cling to ignorance.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:07:58 EST (#)
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Hate shit like this. Bush damned near died from a pretzel attack. Do you REALLY think ANYBODY in the fucking WORLD is in control?
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:04:42 EST (#)
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democracies? puppet governments set up by the US gotv. so that it looks like they went in for humanitarian reasons.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:03:31 EST (#)
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the paintbrush clearly can't be fine-toothed enough to get a good picture in so few words. international aid is a great thing.
everybody else helps out too.
what everybody else doesn't do is bully other nations or invade of false pretences for monetary reasons.
the US, like everywhere else, has a lot of great people in it. no arguement.
it's powerful are corrupt and willing to do horrible things for personal gain.
it just so happens that Iraq holds huge oil reserves.
it just so happens that Afghanistan is now having a rather large pipeline run across it to get oil through.
coincidence i'm sure.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2005-04-01 14:01:07 EST (#)
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You are an idiot.
Did Germany try and set up Democracies in any of the countries they were "given" under appeasment or in countries they took after that?
Did hitler have 40%-60% (depending on the polls you look at, or what happened in the news last week) of the population against his military actions?
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:59:05 EST (#)
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just dont.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:57:22 EST (#)
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"complete disregard for human life outside own country"
I'm sorry you've come into contact with some assholes, but even a small amount of research will show that many programs and agencies that give help to people are well-entrenched in America.
Let's not forget who put feet on the ground in Indonesia after the tsunami first. Not talking about money, talking about physically putting people on the ground to help.
Don't use such a big paintbrush next time. It is unbecoming to you and I both.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:57:11 EST (#)
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Yes, complete disregard for life outside of our country. That's why our military delivered the largest bulk of the tsunami aid. That's why we saved Muslims from genocide in Kossovo. That's why we gave men with amputated hands in Iraq $10k prosthetics. That's why we donate more money to AIDS research, including $15 billion to Africa, than any other country. That's why we offered aid to Iran, our mortal enemy, when they had an earthquake. That's why we offered food aid and energy concessions to North Korea before they started building bombs behind our backs. That's why we offer aid to countries such as Egypt, which are strongly Anti-American. That's why we're working with Abbas and Sharon to enable a Palestinian state.
This is the work of a stone-cold moron. And the funniest thing of all is he believes Americans are brainwashed.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:56:28 EST (#)
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so far:
intelligent responce that agrees with me: 1
no good childdisagreement responce: 1
close race
Submitted by WookieSuave (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:52:20 EST (#)
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I agree with you, however people who don't support America are too fucking stubborn to negotiate these points, and people who support the "war on terror" are too fucking stubborn to negotiate these points, so we're left at a gigantic retarded stalemate......
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Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:52:18 EST (#)
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there was somehting i was going to say.......damn, it slipped my mind......SHIT....wait wait wait...it's coming.....i think...wait...um, wait for it....here it comes...oh yeah....blow me.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-04-01 13:50:09 EST (#)
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i can smell the -2 train a rollin'