Why Do They Hate U.S.?

1. U.S. has still not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

2. Abandoned Kyoto treaty

3. Abandoned Anti-Ballistic missile treaty

4. Rejected International Criminal Court

5. Rejected Biological Warfare Treaty

6. Bombed 23 countries in 23 years

1945-46 ..... China
1950-53 ..... Korea
1950-53 ..... China
1954 ..... Guatemala
1961-73 ..... Vietnam
1964 .... Congo
1964-73 ..... Laos
1965 ..... Peru
1967-69 ..... Guatemala
1969-70 ..... Cambodia
1980s ..... El Salvador
1980s ..... Nicaragua
1983 ..... Grenada
1986 ..... Libya
1989 ..... Panama
199-1999 ..... Iraq
1995 ..... Bosnia
1998 ..... Sudan
1998 ..... Afghanistan
1999 ..... Yugoslavia

7. U.S. supplies 62% of the world's arms
8. U.S. Targets a $452 billion military budget by 2007.
9. Announced a “Bomb First” policy – meaning it will make a pre-emptive strike on any nation it pleases.
10. Regularly attempts overthrows of Democratic leaders (Venezuela the latest)
11. Military presence on every continent, including Holy Lands
12. Only nation to use a nuclear weapon to incinerate civilians
13. Its businesses use undemocratic forces (IMF, World Bank) to strangle domestic economies and force them to become neo-imperialistic labor farms or suffer crushing debt

14. Financially supports and has supported non-democratic dictators who have committed human rights abuses, including torture, biological weapon use, theft, and general acts of tyranny against its own people
15. Voted off the UN commission for Human Rights
Testimonials
* Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth. – Henry Ford

* Endless money forms the sinews of war - Cicero

* The truth of the matter is that Iraq today is not a threat to its neighbors, and is not acting in a manner which threatens anyone outside of its own borders. – Scott Ritter [former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq]

* It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in. - General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" campaign]

* The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. - Amnesty International ["United States of America - Rights for All" October 1998]

* If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace. – Nelson Mandela

* If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the corporation that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - Thomas Jefferson

* No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – HL Mencken

* Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. – HL Mencken

It is very sad that there is so much hatred, the people of the world should not hate the people of America. I do not hate the people of any country.
The problem lies with politicians who should be working for their countymen who are paying them handsomely, these days, someone else is obviously paying them more, to do something else.
Every country needs a mechanism in place to remove from office any Government or individual who does not honor their election promises.
May God Bless the Good People of America,
and woe betide those who betray them.

Dear Ape God,

Why everyone hates America? Well consider this:
Since its creation, the United States has been
an aggressive Nation. The first settlers exterminated
all opposition to their invasion by gun and disease.
Taking advantage of noble and wise people that lived in
complete harmony with their environment. The Red man was
viewed as little more than an animal and exterminated and
confined to reservations, where their culture of respect
for the land was corrupted and latter completely forgotten.

The 13 colonies then expanded west and south, always by
the power of the gun, leaving nothing but death and bringing
in the trash of the old continent to colonize the land,
as if it was empty from the beginning. To do all the work the
white man does not like to do, you brought black people to serve
as your slaves. Hunting these peoples like animals in their
continent where they lived free lives, also in harmony with
their environment.

Your nation grows by exploiting every natural resource to depletion.

You mentioned the world wars, as if it was out of kindness
the fact that Americans participated. USA knew well that a
united Europe under Germany will be to powerful to deal with.
So you joined the Russians to crush the Germans by sheer numbers,
fully aware that German weapons and soldiers where vastly superior.
The USA is the ONLY nation in the world that has used its nuclear
arsenal, and as if that wasn’t enough: AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION.
How can you still defend that?, no one understands. Yet you keep
telling the world that other nations are dangerous and should not
have the right to defend themselves with nuclear arms.

When the twin towers collapsed in New York, and you could hear
women screaming live on CNN; millions others were thinking:
...well, now THEY know how it feels...

As long as your government (elected and supported by YUO), keeps bombing
entire countries 'back to the stone age' (as your brave generals say), you
can be sure there will always be thousands (perhaps millions) eager to
rain death and pain back at the USA.

Do you really don’t know why the world hates you?(and hate IS the right word).
Is it so hard to understand that for some people outside
the USA money and sex are not the most important things in life?

Just take a look at some of the answers (obviously from Americans) you get in this thread.
Arrogance and Ignorance are the most common attributes of the Americans.
Of course am not talking about scientific ignorance -(although you
also may want to consider that the last 60 years of technological development
are based on theories and work done by people that USA brought
sometimes by force into its borders)- am talking about complete
disregard for others peoples way of life.

Believe me when I say the world will be a much better place when the US comes down.

Nope.. The U.S. and the rest of the world can coexist in peace if the powerful elite are dismantled and all countries be control by the people.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people.

-- V

Well, I'm relatively sure that the US wont be around in a decade, as it will be in Civil War or God knows what. But you all can enjoy whatever fill the vacuum. (Sarcastic laugh)

I'm not saying I want anything to happen to the United States...as in people being killed and the country destroyed. I want our current government replaced with a new one. People who aren't corrupt. I think we could also do without huge multi-national corporations as well.

Originally posted by Malynn
I'm not saying I want anything to happen to the United States...as in people being killed and the country destroyed. I want our current government replaced with a new one. People who aren't corrupt. I think we could also do without huge multi-national corporations as well.

Wishful thinking.

The US corporate machine has become so massive that NOTHING will stop it until it destroys itself(which will eventually happen). The power elites have become so arrogant that they probably believe they can dodge bullets. They have become the masters of manipulation, deception, murder and propaganda, and they are getting away with it(with the help of the media) with incredible ease.

The electoral process has become an absolute joke. Ron Paul is the only hope to restore any kind of balance in this country, but any realist will tell you that no matter what, Ron Paul will never be president.

a large part of the resentment and hatred, which really has been ignored in this thread, is the fault of the american tourist.

maybe the US only allow really stupid obnoxious people to go to other countries, i don't know, but every american tourist i've ever met can be summed up with those two words.

i know they're not really as stupid and obnoxious as they seem, they're just hugely ignorant of important aspects of etiquette as applied to visiting foreign soil. this gives a very bad impression.

important aspects such as understanding the difference between what you saw in the cinema (fiction) and what you are seeing in the country you are presently visiting (reality). this misunderstanding is encapsulated in the phrase ''where can i get the real *french/italian/english etc.* experience''.

another area of misunderstanding arises from the fact that levels of service in shops, bars, hotels etc. are directly influenced by the local cultural norms, sometimes service doesn't come with a smile, probably because it would make the locals uncomfortable to be smiled at by a stranger as they were being served.

another annoying thing is that americans talk really, really, really loudly, almost shouting, about everything, even when it is completely inappropriate. even more so when it's completely inappropriate. ''WOW, ISN'T THE MONA LISA SO MUCH SMALLER THAN YOU EXPECTED''......''OH MAN, THIS CHURCH IS REALLY OLD''.....''LOOK, IT'S THE POPE, HEY BUDDY''

related to the above, but a different issue entirely, is the seeming belief that the citizens of the nation visited are there solely for entertainment value. this leads to loud and inappropriate comments. it is often seen as bad taste to refer to people, or their rather ramshackle abode, as quaint, old world or authentic.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People vs. the Banks.

- Lord Acton, Chief Justice of England, 1875



This is not a struggle between nations, not a struggle with America, or between guns and bombs of the world. It is a struggle of human rights and justice versus those who would conspire to take them away for their own ambitions of power. The main tool of this implementation is money.

Those who have money, and enforce the acceptance of its value have power over those who don't and cannot.

What they fear is that the people will wake up and decide together that something else will be accepted as value, instantly making all the bankers bankrupt.

The secret must be kept from the masses that they have the power to choose to change the world at any time. The only thing they must do is collude with one another long enough to make the decision. This is why the bankers want to keep us divided and fighting with one another.