Originally posted by MANDOBLE
On the other hand, the general feeling here is just americans critizing overseas goverments just cause they dont support US foering policy.
Mixed by the fact that G.W. Bush is plainly lying in his reasons to attack Irak. The reason is OIL, not FREEDOM.
Also there's a little debate here about the rightneousness of attacking a nation because it is a dictatorship. What prevents Bush attacking yet another 3rd world nation on the grounds that "it is a dictatorship"?.
We're establishing a serious precedent here. There's something called "international laws", laws that say that no nation is allowed to violate other nation's sovereignty (sp?) unless attacked first.
On the rethorical about "it's all about self-defence", well, Basically what you're doing is validating Japan's attitude in 7/12/41, doing a "preventive attack" on the grounds that America was then seen by Japan as a threat. So they attacked first, much for your dismay and anger.
Now Bush says he see irak as a threat...so he attacks first. That kind of war Bush wants to start it's simply called "Agression war", thing that I always have thought to be established as illegal in Nuremberg trials in 1946.
And the reason, again, is no "freedom for iraqis". Is no "self defence".
That's simply "massive-scale robbery of natural resources of other nation using any excuse at hand".
Finally, Rude, if you don't care what the rest of the world say, then I'd ask you and your fellow countrymans to stop being angry at what the rest of the world thinks of your nation. You say euros trash you, you say the rest of the world don't like you. I've read dozens of times in this forums that that's unfair. I used to agree...
But, well , things like this do show WHY most of the world don't like your nation.
What is myself, I've always thought in positive about USA. I cried in 9/11, and I've always felt the deepest of the sympaties for your people. But if Irak is invaded without a proper UN resolution allowing for it, that will also change. I know you don't mind, but it's simply to illustrate that you're losing any sympathy left for your nation in the rest of the world.
What you'r nation and president want to do is basically invade a nation to seize their resources for YOUR benefit. Don't say euros trash you because we're jeallous (lol)...euros trash you because we see that such a policy can't be allowed. (Well, France trash you because they don't want to lose their share of Irak's oil, but I'm talking about the average man here, not about the governments.
Want to live alone in your nation?. Nice...but then stop pretending the rest of the world must like you. As simple as that.