Gang-Rape Cover-Up by US, Halliborton/KBR
mammasan
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"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
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Well this is what happens when you give contractors carte blanche to do as they please without any type of oversight. The article mentions that even if they had all the evidence in the world to implicate the attackers there is nothing the government could do because these contractors operate in a legal limbo where neither Iraq nor the US has jurisdiction.
But yet victims of 911 can somehow sue the Bin-man. :rolleyes: One f'd up country down there!
Tell me about it.
You can shoot your lawyer friend in the face.
You can strip PoWs naked and take pictures of them in huge piles of humans.
You can occupy a foreign country if it has a natural resource you desire.
If your education system is bad, you can convince the masses to vote for the sweetest-talking idiot.
and you, sir, can go kindly fuck yourself.
eh?
Americans are not bad people. We may not have the best sense when picking our elected officials but we are not some evil breed of people.
By the words that he used, you would think we were French or something.
I know. At least he didn't call us Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys.
So you truely believe that in general Americans are bad people.
In general, you've (collectively, not individually) have been duped and you are paying for it:
- A conservative government that spends way too much
- State controlled media (YES YOU DO! Not like the Commie russians, but if you believe your biggest media outlets are not government influenced, you're nuts)
- A war where you are the bully, not the victim.
Saying Americans are bad in general is like saying all Germans of the early 20th century were bad....it's not true but the propaganda would have you believe otherwise. Now we just get a different sort of propaganda: mass media. And the message is loud and clear...America is messed up. Americans are bad.
Step outside of your daily living situation for a second...forget about all the wonderful things in your daily life, and read the newspaper at face value. Read the news online at face value. Watch TV at face value. The message is extremely clear: America is messed up. Americans are bad. I'm seriously just regurgitating. I'm sure the percentage of Canadians that are actually "bad" is equal to the percentage of Americans that are "bad." It's just that your scale is bigger, and your media likes to sell drama instead of painting a more accurate picture.
EDIT: spellcheck is good
We are very bad ASS tyvm
Nah, our media is corporate controlled...same as the government. It's not state-controlled, it's just controlled by the same people who control the state: rich investors.
That speaks volumes about the world's largest superpower.
Who have a vested interest in certain politicians! the STATE!
That's right, who do you think makes the biggest campaign donations?
I agree with that our country is in trouble. That our government is the worst it has ever been. I also believe that Americans have been dupped by our mass media. That our government has too much influence over what the news is. Our politicians and our journalists have failed us and we stood by and allowed it to happen. I also believe that Americans are slowly starting to realize this. That there is a steady building movement of concerned Americans who want to reign in the government. Who want to wrestle control awat from corporations and special interest groups. Your first post just came across the wrong way. It was too vague and left too much to interpretation. Also there is no spell check function on this board.
My first post was lamenting the article. I've read that same story a million times...just a different version of that story each time.
No need to apologize about that. Our education system sucks ass, compared to other industrialized nations.
I am using Safari.
Which I think was the biggest factor in your elections! But hey, that's just me.
are you referring to the candidates or voters?
Clarification: "Eligible Voters" because people who don't vote are also to blame for ignorance.
that's true b/c they do pick the candidates...which aren't much better.
I disagree. I think the biggest factor in the 2000 election was apathy. Nether of the two candidates really had any mass appeal. The more moderate population was not interested so voter turn out was not high. Also the fact that the Supreme Court basically picked the winner didn't help. As for the 2004 election the blame falls squarely on the Democrats. John Kerry was a horrorable candidate and the Democrats really need to field someone who was going to be able to stand up to the Bush/Cheney/Rove propaganda machine. Kerry was not able to do that and payed the price by loosing to an unpopular president like Bush. Education has very little to do with it and the article you stated about the IQ of each state was debunked. It has everything to do with voter apathy.