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[quote="The Hagfish":78f28]No he did not. But the only reason the Iraqis invaded Kuwait was to get the oil there. The only reason we came to their rescue was because, in the minds of the oil companies who OWN George Bush and his son, it was OUR oil they were taking. The talk about defending a democracy was ridiculous as only males who are directly related to the royal family can vote in Kuwait.

But your point is well taken too, the U.S., or other civilized societies, do not murder civilians as a deliberate act for the sake of doing so – except in cases of all out war. But we (the CIA) DID set off a truck bomb outside a masque, very much like the one's extremists are setting off in Israel, in an effort to assassinate an extremist cleric, who survived even though a great many innocent people were killed. We DID fire cruise missiles into the Sudan and destroy the factory that made 90% of that nations antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals, killing another group of people. I wonder what we would call it if Hussein or any other person or group destroyed 90% of our pharmaceuticals, killing innocent people in the process? They would probably call it terrorism.

Regardless of how indefensible the acts of 9-11 were, the U.S.’s shortsighted and selfish dealings in other nations only fuel hatred in generations of children whose lives are misery because of the tyranny we support for the sake of “our own interests abroad”. Those children grow up seeing us as the major force of evil in the world – not entirely without reason.[/quote:78f28]
Well said.
We live in a self-centered society that cares little for the plights of others in the world.