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Originally posted by jerico65
Well, now this is a big surprise!! A thread bashing the US!! And on ATS!!
OK, as other posters have said, if the US is so evil, how come we offer aid to other countries when they have disasters? They don't have to take it, but it's offered.
Grabbing up the worlds resources? You mean like China is doing in Africa right now?
Global Warming? The US is probably one of the few contries that are trying to reduce emissions. Don't see China and India doing anything like that.
And using the Atomic bomb in Japan. Well, I don't know how "illegal" they were, since we were the first to have them and use them, but have you spoken to anyone that was fighting in the Pacific? Sure, we could have not used the bomb and invaded Japan with ground troops. Nice bloody battle that would have been, since everyone was mobilized to fight the Allies; men, women, children, the old folks, etc.
Try reading some history before you make claims like this.
OK, as other posters have said, if the US is so evil, how come we offer aid to other countries when they have disasters? They don't have to take it, but it's offered.
Grabbing up the worlds resources?
Global Warming? The US is probably one of the few contries that are trying to reduce emissions. Don't see China and India doing anything like that.
but have you spoken to anyone that was fighting in the Pacific? Sure, we could have not used the bomb and invaded Japan with ground troops.
Try reading some history before you make claims like this
Originally posted by Terra Serranum
reply to post by mopusvindictus
Very well said. I dated a Turkish girl for a short while when I was younger. Her family looked at me like I was the antichrist. Wouldn't acknowledge my existance or ever speak to me, pretty funny how untolerant people can be.
Manson, you are an ass. Sure mopusvindictus could potentially have tried to run away with the girl, sounds great in Hollywood anyway. You call him a coward, it's more cowardly to renounce everything you believe in to be accepted by people you can't respect.
Manson, you are an ass. Sure mopusvindictus could potentially have tried to run away with the girl, sounds great in Hollywood anyway. You call him a coward, it's more cowardly to renounce everything you believe in to be accepted by people you can't respect.
Originally posted by CaptGizmo
Manson you don't respond to any of the posts by other members after 9 pages and when you finally do,you give a lame ass response to another member by calling them a coward.LOL, I laugh at your lame response...which is just as lame as this thread you have started merely to inflame people...you are doing nothing but trolling.Everytime you seem to post anything it simply highlights what a pitiful excuse for a member you are.
[edit on 6/24/2008 by CaptGizmo]
Originally posted by August Sonereal
reply to post by manson_322
When you say that the US is no more evil than the nations it has fought, are you seriously telling me that the US is as evil and imperialistic as Nazi Germany? Or Imperial Japan?
Seriously, this thread is near pointless. The way you're working this thread Manson, you should have just switch the 3 first words around and said "The USA is" instead of "Is the USA".
No, Japan WASN'T going to surrender. They were planning on holding out until the Allies gave up and neither side had to give up anything. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 200k compare to the 600,000 the Allies would have lost just trying to invade the country.
To call "history" an American propangand is somehow stupid, but think about it. Pick up any history book in any country's class room and notice how countries aren't willing to point the severe things they have done in the past.
You said Westeners are arrogant, so that must mean the "western" countries as well? So is the USA just the arrogant ones? The Western hemisphere? Or maybe Europe is part of the "West" too.
Actually, the US is doing a lot for Africa. Its the one thing GW Bush is doing well, I beleive. $15 Billion dollars is a lot.
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When you say that the US is no more evil than the nations it has fought, are you seriously telling me that the US is as evil and imperialistic as Nazi Germany? Or Imperial Japan?
Actually, the US is doing a lot for Africa. Its the one thing GW Bush is doing well, I beleive. $15 Billion dollars is a lot.
Originally posted by mattifikation
Manson, unless you would be willing to change your entire religion for some girl, then I suggest you not judge others for not doing the same.
Unfortunately, I doubt you will follow that advice because you are a bona fide hypocrite. You don't need to read "American propaganda?" Bull crap. Tell the truth: That you're too stubborn, brainwashed, and weak-minded to go against what you were told to believe as a child and actually try to get what's called "the other side of the story." Who's following propaganda now?
I'll give you a hint: the answer starts and ends with "you."
Manson, unless you would be willing to change your entire religion for some girl, then I suggest you not judge others for not doing the same.
Unfortunately, I doubt you will follow that advice because you are a bona fide hypocrite. You don't need to read "American propaganda?" Bull crap. Tell the truth: That you're too stubborn, brainwashed, and weak-minded to go against what you were told to believe as a child and actually try to get what's called "the other side of the story." Who's following propaganda now?
No, Japan WASN'T going to surrender. They were planning on holding out until the Allies gave up and neither side had to give up anything. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 200k compare to the 600,000 the Allies would have lost just trying to invade the country.
Originally posted by manson_322
Japan were already at the point of surrender , this has explained why by a member StellarX , i suggest you contact him for the sources and details
Originally posted by manson_322
YOU MURDERED A 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN IRAQ FOR OIL
CREATED ISLAMIC TERROR THAT HAS LED TO DEATHS OF MILLIONS
Originally posted by manson_32215 billion $ lol, thats pitiable , USA spends trillion dollars on a useless inefficient war machine , but spends 15 billion on aid , how stingy and miserly USA is???
Originally posted by manson_322
[USA is largest emitter of greenhouse gases while India emits much lesser .
Hold the phone. When you quote my post, you said we killed a million! Now, just a few posts later, it's 2 million????
Lost was power, clean water, sanitation, fuel, transportation, medical facilities and medications, adequate food, schools, private dwellings and places of employment. Early post-war estimates placed the number of civilians killed at 113,000 (mostly children) according to the Red Crescent Society of Jordan. In addition, US CENTCOM commander, General Schwarzkopf and others, estimated 100,000 or more Iraqi military deaths plus thousands more killed gratuitously as they were retreating in disarray
What then followed was 12 years of the most comprehensive genocidal sanctions ever imposed on a country as an act of vengeance and US-imposed imperial arrogance. They were first adopted in UN Resolution 661 four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait. They included a full trade embargo that crippled the country economically but initially allowed in food, medical and other essential humanitarian needs. UN Resolution 670 followed in September, 1990 that imposed an air blockade and measures to enforce it.
After the war in April, 1991, UN Resolution 687 was adopted. It required Saddam accept cease fire terms and comply with Geneva protocols banning biological and chemical weapons. It also affirmed Kuwait's sovereignty, but it wasn't good enough for US officials who wanted sanctions to remain in force until Saddam was removed.
Later on, the oil for food and medicine program was adopted under UN Resolution 986 in 1995 but was hopelessly inadequate by design. An internal UN report in 1999 revealed it delivered only $74 of food per annum per person (about 21 cents a day) and $15 worth of medicines (about 4 cents a day) with vitally needed items banned or in short supply like syringes, anesthetics, vaccines, antibiotics and other drugs. Everything with potential "dual use" was blocked - chlorine to purify water, vital medical equipment, chemotherapy and pain-killing drugs, ambulances, and anything Washington wished to deny the country punitively with horrific consequences.
Further complicating things, all Iraqi funds were frozen and administered through a US-controlled Development Fund for Iraq. In addition, UN Resolution 661 stipulated all goods entering the country had to be approved by a 15 member committee that included the five permanent Security Council members. Approval had to be unanimous with every member having veto power. The US representative abused his authority by blocking items or causing long delays in importing others. The practice became so extreme, on one occasion baby food was denied on the grounds adults might consume it. At other times, items on the World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian priority list were blocked such as rice, school books, paper, agricultural pesticides, medical journals and catheters for babies.
The results were predictable and devastating. Normal life was impossible and became a daily struggle to survive. It became apparent by the mid-1990s many didn't or wouldn't:
-- the UN World Food Program (WFP) reported 2.4 million Iraqi children were severely at nutritional risk in September, 1995;
-- in December, 1995, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said 12% of Baghdad children were "wasted, 28% stunted and 29% under weight;"
-- by year end 1995, FAO reported 567,000 Iraqi children sanction-related deaths;
-- by March, 1996, WHO noted a six-fold mortality rate increase among children under five;
-- in October, 1996 UNICEF reported 4500 monthly Iraqi children deaths from sanction-caused starvation and disease;
-- by 1999, the under five child mortality rate rose three-fold from 1989, malnutrition doubled, and the entire young child population was affected;
-- UN Secretary-General Boutras-Boutras-Ghali noted how health conditions deteriorated dramatically by the mid-1990s, and by 1997 the WHO Director General said Iraq's health care system was systemically broken; in addition, malaria, typhoid, cholera and other life-threatening and communicable diseases were rampant.
These actions were committed willfully and are war crimes under relevant Geneva Conventions and other international law. They also constitute genocide under provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide that "means any (acts like those listed above) committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the national, ethnical, racial or religious group (by) killing (its) members; causing (them) serious bodily or mental harm; (or) deliberately inflicting (on them) conditions (that may destroy them in whole or in part)."
www.populistamerica.com...
-- 200,000 violent 1990-91 Gulf war deaths;
-- 1.7 million 1990-2003 Iraqi sanctions-caused deaths including 1.2 million children under age five;
-- 3.2 million 2001-2007 US Afghanistan war deaths including UN Population Division data totaling 2.5 million plus 700,000 children under age five;
-- 2.0 million 2003-07 US Iraq war deaths including 1.2 million UK polling firm ORB violence-related estimates plus 800,000 children under age five from UNICEF data; and
-- 500,000 2001-07 opiate drug-related deaths resulting from the resurgent Afghan opium industry under US-UK occupation;
www.populistamerica.com...
Originally posted by Zepherian
reply to post by mopusvindictus
Yes you should, because your culture has done the same. You cannot destroy turkey to turn it into your own culture, look at what is happening in iraq and isreal. All you can do is coexist and let time take it's course. If there are enough good, democratic people their society will eventually open up.
While you have a subjective bad experience with the turkish culture, what about the other side of the coin, the countless bad experiences that they have had with ours? People are people and all cultures have their dark sides. What about the countless cases of wife battering in western cultures, what about the countless crimes of passion, what about the human traffic and the child abuse? We share our fair part of social failure.
Respect everyone.
PS: If you loved her that much and she you, why didn't you run away and face all odds? That's what love is, an absolute. I think what really hurts you in that story is not the turks, it's your own lack of courage to go after what you wanted, consequence be damned. Sorry if I ofend here, it's not my intention, just trying to give another perspective.
[edit on 24-6-2008 by Zepherian]
And we killed for oil? Check how much gas and oil is right now.
So, now you suddenly have the answers to how the US should spend it's money? "Sorry, US, you're not giving enough of your money away! You need to increase that!"
Sorry, Gus. Charity only goes so far. Since when has the US become the world's ATM?????
Inefficient? Well, ask the insurgents that get schwacked. Bet they have a different opinion than yours.
That being said, the United States has clearly maintained its lead in carbon dioxide emissions per person. The average American is responsible for 19.4 tons, followed by Russia at 11.8 tons, Western Europe at 8.6 tons, China at 5.1 tons and India at 1.8 tons.
www.iht.com...
Originally posted by manson_322
reply to post by mopusvindictus
The day came when we were leaning to each other to kiss, we were centimeters from each other and then she pulled back, I said why, what's the matter... She said "my father and brothers would kill me" I suggested we run away soon and she replied "no you can't understand they would follow me where ever I go and find me they would kill me, they would kill you too"
lol, sounds like a concocted story , and if this was true , it exposes the fact that you were a Coward.....
even my cousin(who was a non-muslim, like me whos a hindu ) whos married to a muslim girl from very orthodox muslim family , and to win her family's approval to marry her , he converted to Sunni Islam ,.....
he stood up for love , unlike you, who ran off or was just interested in sex with that girl , in fact he had been injured badly by her family members who were initially against him , but strived again and again and promised to convert to Islam for the sake of his beloved , some members of the family agreed and convinced the other members for the marriage after he converted to Islam... and today they are very happy couple ...
he was very brave , as he knew it could get him killed , but he stood for love , unlike you who fled like a coward, so i can't believe you EVEN WERE IN LOVE WITH HER , as because if it was true love ,you would have willing to stand up for her love and even get killed bec of it ....
even , the girl he loved was fearful of her uncles and cousin brothers , and so he went and stood up and went to her father and mother and told them that he loved her and was willing to convert to Islam for her ,he knew that it could get him killed , for such , BUT HE WAS BRAVE UNLIKE A COWARD LIKE YOU , WHO CANNOT STAND UP FOR LOVE ,
I should have respect for this culture?
LOL, why should i have respect for a coward like you ...
Here's the Reality The only Culture forcing anyone is Islam, Convert or your an infidel, it's primitive thinking, it's barbaric and it's just plain wrong.
sounds like spoon fed AMERICAN propaganda to me .... this type of Islam is Saudi Arabia , your ally , and not in India
yes muslims do not agree to marry their daughters to non-muslims , but if they(non-muslims) willing to convert to islam , then mostly the families agree ....
[edit on 24-6-2008 by manson_322]
so do something abut the 1,000 to 1 kill ratio we are maintaining mister enlightenment... but, you probably can't can you... Allah isn't listening is he? Maybe he really isn't there at all?
Sex... lol, your a fool... look, get real... MY people would Never ask her to change...ever, to deny who she is, or deny her femininity... you say sex like a dirty word... and it's Not a dirty word you freak...
there is no end to this but violence.. .score...10,000 americans 2 Million Iraqis... your going to loose, your way of life is a horror....
there is no argument here, why do you post? you don't get it, even this internet isn't yours, it's mostly ours...
You didn't "get" for one second...what it's like for a woman to lay under a man she doesn't love do you? you can't feel it or understand it... you would have me... a coward for not killing her family of converting...
or have me take her 'free will" the only thing any g-d there might be actually gave us... she is NOT mine to posses...
this is the insanity of your thinking, She was NOT property she had choice and I had to abide by it...
any Real Man would understand that and be strong enough to endure it
You think you can "take" a woman by force...
this is why 2 million dead vs 10,000 doesn't disturb me.. because I LOVE women and you see them as a "thing" and your whole culture disgusts me from this one thing..
why argue...my mind is made up, this is a fight to the end... I'll never "convert" ever... not for love, not for fear for no reason...
so do something abut the 1,000 to 1 kill ratio we are maintaining mister enlightenment... but, you probably can't can you... Allah isn't listening is he? Maybe he really isn't there at all?