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Redstatesman
I'm not suggesting that people hate America specifically because of Cambodia. (I think even a five year-old could understand that point.) I'm simply saying that America has committed grievous acts of violence against other countries, and conspired with terrible dictators such as Pol Pot and Saddam Hussien. The evidence is undeniable. Therefore, you can't, with any validity, draw a glib dichotomy which presents America as a 'good state' and Burma as a bad one.
Also, you're wrong when you say it was just the Democrats that were responsible for the support for Pol Pot. The Khmer Rouge were thrown out of power in 1979 and the U.S., under the Reagan administration, provided ongoing comradeship in the General Assembly for the next decade.
Nasty, nasty stuff...
posted by
Antipodean
on May 11, 2008 at 6:03 AM
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Re: seems you wouldn't like Thomas Jefferson. or Martn Luther.
You opined, "You, sir, seem to be in favor of a government without opposition, which means that you do seem to oppose the democratic process."
If so, then why do I leave your opinions on my blog?
posted by
WriterofLight
on May 10, 2008 at 8:21 PM
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Re: seems you wouldn't like Thomas Jefferson. or Martn Luther.
Wow, Jane Fonda would be proud of you. A page right out of the worthless liberal democrat playbook.
You speak of America relocating factories therefore putting citizens out of work. You must be speaking of NAFTA. Then I agree. It was yet another stupid idea by the democrat president Bill Clinton, your hero. And then some stupid dumbass Republicans went along with it. How stupid!
Then you speak of the plight of minorities and how it is yet once again societies fault. Another one of your heroes and his wife have rpoved you wrong on this as well. Your hero Obama and his USA hating wife both disprove this lame excuse. She was born and raised in southside Chicago, now look she is a millionaire. There are so many other examples of blacks who made it big. Have you ever once thought that maybe presonal responsibility may be the way to go? Or are you saying that Michelle Obama's parents just got lucky in the way they raised her. See how stupid your theology is, democrat.
posted by
RedStatesMan
on May 10, 2008 at 6:03 PM
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Re: Fascinating
Spoken like a true liberal worthless democrat. You talk as though other nations just started hating us recently. Wake up! Others have hated us since the USA was born. Then again maybe you do have a point. Pol Pot's era was during a democrat's administration in the White House. How true, leave it to a democrat to always screw something up.
posted by
RedStatesMan
on May 10, 2008 at 5:55 PM
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Fascinating
The total hypocrisy of this post is so breathtaking that you must really be a lefty trying to defame Republicans. If that's the case you're doing a pretty good job. You say the evils range 'from Stalin to Hitler to Mao to Amin to Pol Pot' in an attempt to deflect criticism of America. The fact is that the U.S. was one of Pol Pot's key allies, and years after all the evidence was known America backed Democratic Kampuchea at the General Assembly. They also connived in a strategic campaign to keep the Khmer Rouge armed and resourced when it was pushed back onto the Thai-Cambodian border.
I'm sure you don't want to let a few historical facts get in the way of your ideology, but America chose to align itself, on a deliberate and ongoing basis, with probably the most horrific regime in modern history.
These are the real reasons the world hates you.
posted by
Antipodean
on May 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM
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seems you wouldn't like Thomas Jefferson. or Martn Luther.
people who criticized the status quo.
again, facts speak for themselves.
the U.S. has supported oppressive dictatorships around the world: Iran, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and their atrocities were out there for all to see.
U.S. corporations have been and still are exploiting people for their own profit. It has been a practice for over a century, starting with the sweatshops of the 18th Century and exploitation of immigrant workers through relocating factories from the U.S., putting tens of thousands of Americans out of jobs, and placing the factories in SE Asia, paying $2/day at factories with sweatshop conditions and without the benefits that American workers have fought so hard for, such as vacation, sick leave, health care, overtime, etc. And they still sell clothes and shoes that probably cost about 25 cents apiece for $30, $40 (at the low end) up into the hundreds of dollars.
our government ignores the plight of American citizens: African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic-Americans, where we find huge groups of people with lower than norm incomes and education and higher instances of crime and drug use. Each group has been placed by one means or another on its own form of "reservation", with opportunities restricted.
If any other country (or citizen) speaks out, the government strong-arms them in one way or another, or its supporters will call them unpatriotic and loony, thus attempting to squelch public debate.
You, sir, seem to be in favor of a government without opposition, which means that you do seem to oppose the democratic process.
The democratic process allows for opposition and criticism.
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM
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Of Course!!!!!!
We have a nation here (Burma) who is ruled by an idiot! Of course he does not want us into his nation to help his people because he is stupid just like all other nations are who so-call "hate us" and just like the totally dumbass democrat party in this nation. Let Nancy Pelosi deal with it! I say the hell with Burma then! The hell with everything and let some dumbass like Obama in office then let everything go to hell. Then let the other worthless liberlas on blogit deal with the excrement later. They want so let the worthless idiots deal with it.
posted by
RedStatesMan
on May 9, 2008 at 11:20 PM
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