really? i am a minority in America. I face countless stereotypes and and having grown up largely on my own, between the foster care system and the streets, i have struggled to obtain the basic lifestyle i currently live. the difference between here and the majority of other countries? Here, i have every oppurtunity to move well beyond my initial status as a homless drifter, even at age ten. elsewhere, the life i have klived i would have been killed, kidnapped and sold, tortured, raped, etc. complain all you want about the "torture" you supposedly suffer. move to Africa. go to the so-called"motherland" believe me, save for the calling of God on your life you would be killed or come running back here in no time. i promise you that. I am fortunate to live in a country where the "little" guy has the ability to go beyond his surroundings, to trancend my circumstances. do we have problems? plenty of them. A lot of americans, such as your self, complain that bush is "neglecting his responsibilities at home" . last time i checked there were plenty of able bodied men, women, teenagers, children, white, black, hispanic, yellow, purple, WHATEVER, that are perfectly able to go out and help somone in need. the sad mistake of our nation is believing that it is the responsability of one man to take care of us all. no one owes you or I anything; it is not enough to have a "voice". thousands of Americans talk until they are blue in the face and protest the wars we get caught up in. when was the last time these same people protested, or-gasp!-actually took the initiative and ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING< INSTEAD OF CRYING ABOUT OUR LEADERS INCOMPETENCE????? that goes for all Americans. you all know who you are, and if that statement offends you, you are the person i am speaking to. we are a spoiled nation. i am simultaneously gratefull for the place i call home and shamed by the utter ignorance of its inhabitants.
oh yeah. as far as the oil..... what do you thtink Iraq is being built on? of course it was protected. That oil is a LIMITED natural resource, vital to the world itself,and the inheritance of Iraq. It would have been a crime in and of itself to let that oil burn off. Bush is a madman? while i myself do not agree with the enormous quotient of minorities that he executed as governor of Texas, how do you think AL GORE would have handled 9/11? do you honestly believe that that would have happened? oh, and by the way, the oil IS valuable, but 1-we have no authority to sell it, and 2- there are currently SANCTIONS on the sale of it. Interesting conspiracy, anyways. Unlike France, who actually HAS ties as well as big money contracts tied to that oil (refinery corperations, etc.), America is actually working to get various trade embargos LIFTED from Iraq in order to enable trade to commence, as well as puting forth resolutions to hold off on the rest of the world (us included) collecting on the debts Iraq has with quite a few countries. there is plenty more to what we are doing here than what the rest of the world seems to want people to believe. oh, Canada- "cut the dictaor crap"? really? when was the last time your countries leader had tortured 80 men by having a surgeon chopping off their ears? come back when that happens.