So Obama, the booma, won.
So Obama, the booma, won the elections. I had already predicted that in my post "A long American-Iranian Film".
I said the following : " My hunch is and my hunches are rarely wrong, if Obama the booma wins, and he will, by a small margin, Iraq will be handed over to Iran..."
I also said that Obama will strike a deal with Ahmadenejad on Iraq and in particular Southern Iraq.
And lo and behold, the vice president for the booma Obama is none other than J.Biden. J.Biden, the Zionist, is an ardent supporter of the partition of Iraq into three statelets. No wonder Maliki and Co were also backing the booma along with Iran. I also know that Iran had generously contributed to the Obama campaign.
I am glad that the evil, bastard Bush is out. No doubt about it. But I shall not congratulate you on your 44th president. He will simply finish off what the other Zionists had started -- The final partition of my country.
To hell with all of you and all of your presidents.
I said the following : " My hunch is and my hunches are rarely wrong, if Obama the booma wins, and he will, by a small margin, Iraq will be handed over to Iran..."
I also said that Obama will strike a deal with Ahmadenejad on Iraq and in particular Southern Iraq.
And lo and behold, the vice president for the booma Obama is none other than J.Biden. J.Biden, the Zionist, is an ardent supporter of the partition of Iraq into three statelets. No wonder Maliki and Co were also backing the booma along with Iran. I also know that Iran had generously contributed to the Obama campaign.
I am glad that the evil, bastard Bush is out. No doubt about it. But I shall not congratulate you on your 44th president. He will simply finish off what the other Zionists had started -- The final partition of my country.
To hell with all of you and all of your presidents.
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Unfortunatly, here you have to play the corporate game if you are president, and part of that is war; which makes a hell of a lot of money for those involved, or you are dead. The president obviously does not rule. Just ask JFK.
If everyone had written in Ron Paul, he would have gotten assassinated, but hey. He stands for all the right things.
We have no fucking choices in America. Its like having to choose between a somewhat skilled public speaker / serial killer and the other that is a 70-something year old child with his finger on the red button...and the American public just eats it up!!
The Left..the Democrats..with their millions of have-not simply want freebies from the government and hope to continue to go to malls and but big scree TV's and I-pods, etc.
The American culture is a ghost town with vultures tripping over themselves to get the last bits of morsels and the ones that DO HAVE IT......no way in hell wanna give it up. Fucking pathetic.
NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE IS GONNA CHANGE.
Obama kisses the Zionists ass and will continue to support Isreal full heartedly. Obama will stick the US's nose deeper in Pakistan & Afghanistan affairs.
Obama lied about Russia & Osettia. Obama lied about 9/11. Obama will not bring the neo-cons to justice. He's a liar.
I will call him, McBamabush.
...thinking of you....
I will say no more on these US elections for it is beginning to make Layls'a blog smell really bad.
Booma is an owl. It is also a derogatory term meaning -stupid
The waters will be further muddied, myopy everywhere will degenerate into blindness, America will become a Leftist (wet) dream-land, Israel will lose nothing and Iran will take over everything.
What "lesser evil" of my ass...at least with the crazed old butcher McCain, things would have been CLEAR.
Fuck the US demonocracy.
America’s image has been dented far beyond repair-its military aptitude has been drained and stretched over limits. Its moral authority has been diluted by events from Guantanamo Bay to Abu Gharib.
The first thing the new Government will try is to stabilize their economy and return confidence in the financial sector. It will not be easy to rein in over-spending.
As we all know that American foreign policies hardly shifts no matter which Government is in office. But this time the interesting issue is that their internal strategy will also be stagnant-since the deficit in their National budget-is so big that it can’t be quantified and there are no quick-fix solutions.
Gordon brown has rushed to the Middle-East to borrow from the oil-rich Arab states and Obama could follow suit. The Arab head of states should be vigil and diversify their investments else where otherwise they will be sailing in troubled waters. They should desist from buying their toxic paper outright.
We all know that the bail out plan- is bailing out the fat cats-which ate all the cheese in the first place- so it’s not a tangible plan. American financial sector which thrives on un-regulated banking system will not succumb to any demand to be regularized soon. That means whoever will invest will go down the tunnel further.
Change of guard at the oval office will hardly bring any positive change in the world. The faces have changed the theatre and the theme is likely to remain the same.
دنب الكلب أعوج لو Øطيته بمائة قالب
"Excuse me please do cats really eat cheese ?"
what the hell are you blabbering about ?
and...
when will your ship call at...again ?
"If you want everything to stay the same, let everything change"
Hello Captain, do you also have a crystal ball ?
Regarding your second comment, I personally believe that Obama won because big corporate business, including the oil cartels decided to back him. And only in this light does the financial "crash" that we witnessed just a few weeks ago, make sense...Elementary my dear, elementary.
And yes cats does eat cheese. Qais, my little one, loves cheese. as long as it is not too hard. He usually prefers "la vache qui rit" type of cheese...Ah some cats never learn ! :-)
Hello, your comment cracked me up. LOL. I like this macbamabush, I will call him macbooma... Are you in cowboy land or not yet ?
I agree with you. You probably read all the "anti war" ROLMAO, bullshit already...Ahhh "change is coming to America", my ass !
Hello, Yes danab al kalb bedal ma3wuj...ma fee faydeh abadan. Good musicl stuff you got by the way.
I think if there is going to be any more it will be direction Afghanistand where the TALIBANS ARE WINNING and definitely direction PAKISTAN.
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Hello Layla.
Lucy is right in one regard. Unfortunately I was born in America..had no choice at all in that.
Yes Layla, I will be leaving my northern State and heading South soon but I am waiting for an event to happen first and it should be coming up very shortly. Ive began to go thru my belongings...throwing alot away and just keeping some basic things. My daughter will go thru our things and keep the things she wants. I will be traveling very light in just what I can get in my car.
My load wil basically consist of my computer, clothes, photo albums and my camera and toothbrush / etc.. Thats about it. The rest goes to my daughter, whoever wants things or to the garbage.
As you know, my first choice was to get as far away from empire as possible by going to Asia or the MidEast. Still getting job offers over the net but a slight change has developed; enter Female. :-)
Sooooo, a slight change in plans has developed. She now lives in that southern State and is telling me to get my ass down there, so I will. However, hopefully it will be a slight delay. She was born in Indonesia and says she wants to leave America too and go back home. Time will tell if we do it together or I set off alone as originally planned.
Sinbad & KMWR are correct in that more US armed forces will be in other new 'wars' and the corporate is the power in America. Mcbamabush declares he will create new jobs. How exactly and what will these "new jobs" pay? Is he going to FORCE compaies to pay a certain wage? Are jobs that went overseas going to come back to the US? Ha. Is McBamabush going to free the people in Gitmo? I highly doubt it. Is Mcbamabush going to REALLY LOOK at the events of 9/11? Hell No. McBamabush fully supports the 'war on terror' and is setting sights in the greater Caspian region.
I recall very clearly how the Bushites denied facts and became rabid about people making claims about the Bush term policies. I see that now taking place with McBamabush supporters and their reaction towards those of us that voice our opinions and concerns. So in essence, the McBamabush supporters are made of the same stuff the Bushites are. Say anything negeative about their man and you are ....well, you can see what happens.
The United States is a money-motivated / materialistic driven culture. I'm not into that. Hell I dont even have a television, an I-pod and my car is more than 10 years old. The Mcbamabush supporters are basically the have nots and they want what the so-called "wealthier" Republicans have. Many Republican supporters do not wanna give it up and the Democrats want to now take it. They want to have what the Republicans have. The Dems call it "spreading the wealth".
True, there are obnoxiously wealthy Americans, but I would bet money on it that alot of them put alot of effort into becoming what they are today. Im not a dem supporter nor a repub supporter but the clambor for wealth is what disgusts me.
My god..there are People in parts of this World that have no house...walk to try to get fresh water or are living off of water & rice and dying from curable health issues and the worst.......suffering from the actions of empire AND their so called "wars".
Its just fucking selfishness So many people here WANT something......SOMETHING they dont actually even NEED. Its taken decades for the US government to build itself up into the monster of wht it is today. It didnt begin with the Bush terms.
These American soldiers that sign up to be an active part of United State's hegemony and the global police force that "protect America's so-called interests...they MADE a choice.
The People and families they destroy by invasions had No choice. I dont feel the least bit sympathy for the US military NOR their families. Why should I?
If these parents would look back thru history and actually look and understand the WHY's of these military escapades and conflicts and the decades of how the US government sends 'the troops' into other countries, maybe they would not now be complaining about bringing their daughters and sons 'home'.
Its what their daughters and sons knowingly signed up to do....to be under the complete control of US hegemony and invade other countries. These facts are not hidden...the facts of invading other countries. Its been going on for decades. McBamabush will now send them to the Caspian region. Will the McBamabush suporters then claim "bring the troops home"? NO...becasue they have already, knowingly voted for McBamabush with the full knowledge that McBamabush is going to get more and more involved militarily with Pakistan. It truly defies humanity.
Hell, I dont give a rats ass if a president is black, white, orange or damned invisible. Stop the US global dominance and STOP believing the US is superior to other People.
One day Iran will become a Muslim country again, till then it's death squads will continue to make all the Khomayne worshipers very proud.
Obama won the American elections, meaning that he's just another zionist puppet and the American army will continue with the genocide Israel orders it to do - "Change" will happen when America stops the genocide, that is not going to "Change" and the Israeli hate mongers like him just fine becuase he'll put a nice face on their murders.
Don't place any bets on Zionist infested America, the Iraqi freedom fighters will bring "Change" not them. Obama is just another one of their "elected" zionists puppets.
I agree with Snoozer above: Iraqi Resistance will bring about 'change', not the elections in the US.
In solidarity.
About Pakistan & McBamabush:
I think that I heard that this General Patreus will now oversee not just the illegal operations in yer country of Iraq, but also the Afghanistan area. ( if Im remembering right )
So the US military seems to have made some adjustments in preparation for the McBamabush and Im sure McBamabus has already met with US military leaders regarding Pakistan & Afghanistan.
Bush & Company will simply do a hand-off to the McBamabush regime. McBamabush probably has been briefed on all the military targets and of course Pakistan has nuclear weapons so of course McBamabush can easily say they are a threat.
ENOUGH!
Sorry but personally i can't forgive you until YOUR country has stopped massacring people left, right and center.
Yes, in fact it's more than just the two countries you mention.
He has been given control of the ENTIRE East Asian arena, including ALL the Middle East AND he has the authority to launch strikes against any country he deems fit EXCEPT for iran.
Which two countries is he not allowed to attack without approval????
Give you a clue, they both start with I.
What gave you the idea that I do not like zionists? in 1,000 years nothing has spread Islam faster and further than zionists have - the more Israel shows people how to use injustice the more people learn from Palestine how to use Justice - the more Israel teaches the values of lies the more people learn from Palestine the value of truth - how else would the world learn all about Islam without the zionist and nazi propaganda machines spreading Islam?
Do you think I want any White zionist Rabbi or Priest with the blood of millions of humans on his hands praising Islam? Let the zionist Christians and Jews scream about their love of Peace to their death squads, let them preach their hate and spread their fear - it works on simple minds like yours very well - but it also guides wiser minds to Islam, Israel can keep the hate and fear filled dumbs ones like you, Palestine gets the rest :)
The more Israel spreads hate, fear and lies about Islam and Muslims the faster Islam spreads world wide - people like Truth and Justice, and that is not a zionist strong point.
Peace
ok ok I have a little obsessive obsessive obsessive compulsive compulsive disorder
Does he hold conference calls with you?
Re: Obama's Plans.
Obama’s first appointment, Rahm Emanuel, who is set to become chief-of-staff, is the son of a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which was responsible for bombing hotels, marketplaces as well as the infamous Deir Yassin massacre, in which hundreds of Palestinian villagers were slaughtered.
Washington IS Israeli Occupied Territory.... and you don't get it.
So you consider millions of innocent and dignified human beings, Muslims and non-Muslims, in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. being savagely murdered, raped, tortured, enslaved and de-identified by the Zionist hordes as somehow convenient, useful, a "fair price" to pay in order to speed up the triumph of Islam ???
HOW FUCKING CYNICAL CAN YOU BE ?
WHAT SICK PERVERTED IDEA OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD AS A CALLOUS CALCULATING "CHESS PLAYER" AND OF HIS NOBLE CREATURES AS MERE WORTHLESS "PAWNS" DO YOU HAVE ?
Layla agrees with both of you. Iran will be used for its sectarianism in Pakistan and wherever Shiites minorities exist. Obama is a 100% zionist puppet.
Seems you do not read your own press...another american I suppose.
Can't read well, can you? Too much hate and fear does that on both sides of any issue.
The Christian and Jewish zionists are doing those murders by the millions, with the help of Iran's Khomayne worshiping death squads - whatever I do or say their murders will continue, they did not listen to their own religons and go against the words of the God they worship, so why should they listen to me and stop?
I am pointing out a fact, their lies, hate and fear mongering is working against them - I am not for any murder, and shame on you for not being able to read - try reading the Quran, it helps, all I am doing is saying in English what it says in Arabic - Yamkoroon wa Yamkor Allah (swt) - now try translating that for zionists :)
Peace
Shed that silly belief and understand that all that is is us.
When humanity accepts that reality, when it discards the conclusions of ancient peoples who were mired in near total ignorance, then peace will be inevitable.
Unless this attitude shift occurs, Iraq is doomed to forever being a cesspool of negative energy.
All donations are reported to the government & are PUBLIC record. Google US Elections Commission to see the entire list of contributors for yourself.
Joe Biden is not going to be President. Vice-Presidents mainly attend official lunches & dinners & cast a tie-breaking vote (& only in case of a tie) in our Senate. Vice-Presidents have no other function under our Constitution, except to be ready to serve as President if he is killed.
Barack Obama was against the war in Iraq from the beginning. After Bush had started it, every THINKING American tried to figure out how to limit the devastation of Iraq, limit the damage to our reputation & save the lives of our citizen-soldiers. Perhaps Joe was wrong about partitioning Iraq, but the idea was not born from a hatred of Iraq, a love of Israel or of Iran or anyone else. Joe Biden was trying to come up with a plan to limit the devastation to all involved. He should be given credit for that, even if he was wrong.
One last point: Americans are not blind to Israel's sins. Only 8% of us are Jewish. But many of us have gone to grade school with Jewish kids or to University & have in other ways lived as a society with Jews- from secular "American Jews" who rarely attend Sabbath & may even eat pork to Hassidic Jews that are extremely religious. We see all the prisms of the Jewish State & are simply trying to help find a solution in the Middle East so it may exist for once in History, at Peace. Bill Clinton almost did it & Bush was a disaster in all respects. Barack Obama will try to repair what Bush did & build on what Clinton did.
I hope you understand how an average, not rich American, thinks.
Your facile and stupid comments accusing this one of being a Zionist and that one of being a Zionist demonstrate only that you, like so many of your Arab brethren, remain committed only to blind hatred and prejudice, an attitude which has contributed mightily to the fact most of you - despite the enormous petro-wealth you enjoy - live in a state of social, intellectual and economic poverty. Rather than making any effort to educate your children in ways which would equip them to function and prosper in the world today, you remain firmly entrenched in the past, leading meaningless miserable lives, often in poverty, or sending your children off to blow themselves up in nihilistic demonstrations of idiocy.
Enjoy the next eight years of Obama's presidency as the rest of the world leaves you in the distant past, a fate you have chosen for yourselves (and richly deserve).
I deeply regret that the US became involved in Iraq and couldn't care less about "bringing you" democracy or anything else. I had hoped that getting rid of Saddam - given your own inability and failure to do so - would be of worth the lives and money required, given the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives he took, but I have long since come to believe we would have been better off leaving you to deal with your own Hitler.
An American looking forward to Obama's Presidency and an end to our involvement in your shit-bag country.
If Iraq can ever stand on it's own feet without another dictator, it stands to, in the long run, be more powerful economically than it's neighbors.
As for Obama, unfortunately he has made his choices crystal clear: He is more concerned about image than substance. The consensus here in the US is that Obama is going to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors in office. The evidence appears overwhelming: his selection of Biden, an Israeli apologist, and now Rahm Emanuel, practically a Zionist, as his chief of staff, that he will do nothing to rile the feathers of the pro-Israel political action groups.
As a result, I am very disappointed with Obama, and this is before he has even become president Obama. I can only pray that my concerns are unfounded and the he, Obama, will see the wisdom of treating the Muslim world equally with Israel. Al-hamdulilah.
Siddiqui in the US
After years of waking up to gun shots and missiles and hearing stories of rape and murder do you expect that you would sympathize with your occupiers? Trust their intentions?
How do you expect most Iraqis to feel about you? How can you be outraged that some are filled with anger? You won't understand.
The author of this blog is living life under an occupation. You're not.
Secondly, obsessive pro-Israel policies within U.S politics is alarming to us all as Arabs. I speak for myself when I say that I don't hate Americans, I appreciate their vote for "change" despite not understanding what that change can bring, or if it will actually bring any "change" at all. But ask yourself why your country is at its knees for Israel and how you yourselves seem to live under Israel's political occupation. Your presidents in the past decade have had no personality or opinions of their own when it comes to the Middle Eastern conflicts. They have no balls to stand up for what's right. They're being watched like hawks by AIPAC and its influential political activists (who staff up your administration) and if you don't believe that, try reading every statement from American presidents and their allies concerning the Palestinian issue. Not a single one rejects and denounces Israeli aggression even when the entire world (including Switzerland, the UN and the EU!) condemns it wholeheartedly.
We ask these questions out of serious concern for our lives. Why is it that only your lives matter? And when your life is even slightly endangered (rarely!), why is it okay for you to hate and accept the anti Arab and Islamophobic bigotry that has poisoned America for so many years?
As for the commenter who assumed that Iraq is a shit-bag country, it only turned into so when your troops proudly (but without the slightest clue what they're doing) set their foot in. Iraq was once the center of educational, cultural and intellectual excellence. It's a shitbag country now because your current president thought it would be cute to bomb it to oblivion. Why do you expect to be thanked? You didn't liberate anyone, despite what some Iraqis (who seek protection from U.S soldiers) might say. You created a violent occupation, and when you leave and see Iraq fold into pieces, it would still be because of your violent occupation.
No one here thinks you're heroes. If you want to make friends, you have a lot of work to do before that happens.
with love,
just a stupid American who never wanted this war and never wanted your oil
p.s. keep enjoying that American music.
Think about it.
What a disgustingly shallow remark.
Either way, America is nothing without its immigrants. YOU didn't create the internet. People working in your country did, those millions of Asians who came into your country seeking jobs. You just sit on your ass and brag about it, because, what else is there to do in America?
The co-founder of the company that handles this technology is a Russian immigrant to America, and now it's mainly run by outsiders. How many offices does Google have in Europe and how many non-Americans work at Google?
And who developed the math necessary to create computers in the first place? Oh, was it those Arabs that America hates and pities so much?
You may pat yourself in the back and claim that you're the superior race, which is your frank and painfully embarrassing implication, but when you explore how many Americans can actually locate Iraq on a map there's not much to clap hands about. You're not really superior to anybody. You're not more intelligent. You simply live in a country with wide open doors to smart people around the world to come into your land and invest in what's already in it. You don't do shit. You call these investors and creators Americans because you're too embarrassed to admit that none of them are the real inventors behind any of your so called "progress."
I'm looking forward to your shameful excuse to your racist argument, I can smell your superiority complex from here and boy does it stink.
Congratulations Layla!!!!
You have won the ELECTIONS!!!!!!
NUR
I am from the UAE. Only 17% of the UAE consists of nationals. Everyone else is either European, American, South Asian, etc. They come for opportunities that they feel are somewhat lacking in their own countries. This is the fastest growing region in the world, and while your economy is swimming in its pile of shit, ours is stronger than ever.
But they don't teach you that in America, do they? In America, they teach you self-important values and racism, hatred that knows no bounds, ignorance that has no limits. It is at times like these when I pity the meaningless existence of such insignificant peons.
These are the facts. You're just too empty with false pride to accept them as they are. It's not my fault that every time your disturbing racism is refuted you squirm with anger. You're angry because for once you have to face the reality of your witless existence, and that of your ilk. You fight to defend your superiority complex because without it, you're nothing. A nobody. The laughing stock of humanity.
America is hardly perfect and it never will be. Not even close. Very few Americans wanted this war and even though I voted against Bush (twice), I realize the blood is on my hands too. I know that.
Intriguing how they (presumably our Zionist masters) teach us self-important values and racism, but we just elected a black man to be our president. And it wasn't even close. If you can't understand the significance of that seismic event, I pity you.
And by the way, it's comical getting preached to on racism from people who are convinced there is a Zionist conspiracy to rule the world. Seriously, it's tiresome and you demean yourself every time you do it.
At least we don't think the entire Muslim world is conspiring against us because a bunch of people crashed into a tower.
"Seriously, it's tiresome and you demean yourself every time you do it."
And I guess it's not tiresome when you claim to be morally, culturally, intellectually superior to everyone on Planet Earth, even though hardly anyone outside your borders actually feel that way, and despite it being the furthest thing from the truth.
You raise to the opportunity to try and convince others to love and respect your country, but you never do it the way it should be done, in fact with each arrogant response you inspire the opposite. You blame the blog's author for hatred and contempt and then fail to control your own. You reveal to us your true face, your lack of consideration for anyone other than yourself. Why should we respect you? With your mockery, hatred, and bigotry, what did you do to earn our respect?
Your obsessive nationalism, neverending stereotypes, lack of the most basic knowledge of foreign events and cultures is why the world thinks you're laughable. You bring this attitude onto yourselves. You ask for it, and you'll get it every time. Pitiful.
But come on, give us a smile. The fact remains, you're winning this war. America willfully and stupidly allowed itself to be lured into a conflict that it can't win. The region is more unstable than it otherwise would be thanks to George Bush's folly and the world hates us it. I more than understand why. And hey, as an added bonus, our financial system is in tatters.
I just stumbled on this blog because the Zionist controlled New York Times gave it a voice.
I will just say this, the world is a much more beautiful place in color than it is in black and white. Good night and may peace soon be with you.
Lookie here Spunky, they may be laughing but they do keep coming to America. By the way, where do you live?
As for the rest, pfffft...
Hope you learned a new Iraqi slang -- BOOMA = DUMB
WHEW! I made it through all three hundred plus comments and being a 'red-blooded, born and bred American Man' of 53+ years, I managed to actually not get upset in the very least with all the "American Flag, Presidential Effigies, etc. BURNING.
I voted for Obama. I'll get that out of the way immediately. I didn't do it because he is of a darker skin color, or because he could afford to spend mega-$$ on 30 minute ads on TV or ANY of the many "reasons" stated in all these comments. Honestly? I was and still am a Hillary Clinton supporter and was hoping beyond hope that Obama would select her as his VP. When that didn't happen and Clinton faded into the background (again), I had to seriously take a look at all 5 or 6of the candidates (yes KM, we had THAT many choices. NOT just TWO).
I kept coming right back to Obama though! I really wanted him for our President but I have this extreme deep seated fear that he may not fulfill the full 4 years of his term in office due to some lunatic skin-headed, nazi-brainwashed, racial supremist will assassinate him simply because of his skin color. I pray for his life and safety every day. I don't know if news of all the attempts on his life made it to your newspapers in Iraq, Iran or wherever you all live, but at least FIVE (5) assassination attempts were made just during his campaign! He wasn't even elected president yet and sadly, some people in this country couldn't bear the thought of having a "dark skinned" commander in chief! I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this, however, like layla, I have this very strong feeling(s) of foreboding. The type and strength of which usually come true.
Not that I fear to have his VP (Biden) as president. Not at all. I think both of those men are pretty close on their thinking...I just believe that for Obama to fulfill his first term (at least!) will do our country and (seriously) the world a psychologically great deal of GOOD. Why? Because of his "skin color"? Absolutely!
Even though you people that live in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel and the like love to think that ALL American Citizens THINK AND BELIEVE in every single thing our government thinks, believes and DOES...YOU ALL ARE SO INCREDIBLY WRONG!
Being at the age that I am, I grew up during the 60's and first half of the 70's and protested (sometimes) violently against the Vietnam "conflict", actually had a feeling that MY generation was going to grow up and do something to "change" the old system, the old "boys clubs" and everything else that was wrong about our 200+ year old government.
Unfortunately, I'm now ashamed to be a part of this generation which turned out to be so greedy for goods and services...and for mostly chasing what some call the "almighty dollar" due to the Reagan/Bush/Bush Jr. years. Can you all believe that between all three of those men, it's been a total of 24 years of sheer business-like gluttony and corporate controlled government??? I'm so embarrassed for our country for electing those three and sincerely wish I had a time machine to go back and somehow change all the wrong things that happened so all of you didn't feel so hateful towards the USA that you'd love to see us burn from coast to coast and then some! Can't you see how the very families you have written about that are now being killed by Bush’s' war machine in your countries could be the very same on the American side and were on September 11th. I'll admit it, OK? Yeah...we deserved that "twin towers" nightmare. Most of us Americans have lost a LOT of our individual liberties and freedoms due to the Bush’s' "National Security Programs" BULLSHIT! More and more of us citizens are finally waking up and realizing the fact that we have been lied to for those 24 years and the United States we had before Reagan, isn't the same United States we have now and we are desperate for any kind of change back to "the way it was".
I do believe that deep down in all of us, we all want to just "get along" and let everyone live their own lives the way they feel they want to.
Sorry to be so long. I still have so much more to say but don't want to seem like a (as we say in the USA) "chatty-Cathy". LOL!
Aloha for now,
An American in Hawaii
PS- Do you really think that Americans want to fight a war in Iraq? If it was up to me, I'd wipe the entire region off the map, so that you fuckers would stop fighting your holy wars, destabilizing the world, and making our retarded leaders like George Bush send our military over there. Have a nice day.
As for the rest, pfffft..."
Oh come on Layla, I'm starting to think you only agree with those that bash America, land of (according to bloggers you agree with) racism, ignorance, a Zionist controlled media and a false sense of superiority. Thats not being very open. Thank you for the lesson in Iraqi (Booma=Dumb). Here is a little applicable slang from America for your part of the world. SNAFU...know what that means? Situation Normal, All Fucked Up
I realize that not everyone is in a position to go traveling around the world in order to broaden their horizons. I wish it would become a required right of passage for every human being--like a universal hajj.
I am heartbroken that you seem to have lost all hope and all ability to see the world in anything but black and white. The destruction of your country is clearly an experience I have no ability to understand in any concrete way. That does not mean it doesn't bother me. It outrages me. I have spoken out, written, marched, taught, and--yes--voted to try and prevent any further destruction to your country and demand that the US do everything it can to repair the inexcusable damage already done. That's how it works in a democracy. I wish it were quicker; I wish we always acted morally. I can tell you that the election of Barack Obama represents a desire on behalf of most Americans to change the way we interact with the other nations of the world.
One final comment: As to the perceived arrogance and superiority of Americans, certainly there are those who foolishly believe that they are somehow better than other people. The brighter ones among us, however, know that we are no better as persons, but that we have been blessed to live under a system of government that, while not perfect, has built into it the mechanisms to allow for its continual evolution and improvement. We have fallen short again and again in our treatment of one another, but that is the fault of our being human. America is not a race, color, religion, nation or even location. It is a set of ideals and principles of government that have been enacted here through generations of trial and error, with contributions from every corner of the world, every faith, race, gender and ethnicity. It's in that sense that I say Americans are not special, but "America" is.
I'm sure someone here will find fault with what I have written. Perhaps you'll call it bullshit, attack it as Zionist lies and trickery, nazi propoganda, the product of a brainwashed liberal, or a capitalist/imperialist apologist. However, what you won't do is change my view that peace is inevitable, that people are good, and you won't stop me from reading, learning and listening to your voices with an open mind and heart. I may get mad, may feel impatient and even disgusted with people at times, but I know there's always another way to see things, another truth, and I always come back to that core belief.
Salaam Aleikum! Shalom! Peace!
It took me over two hours to compose my post. Sure--talk is cheap; but time is not. If nothing else can convince you of my interest in your thoughts and experiences, I hope that fact does.
Allow me also to recommend the blog of Peace Man and Hope Man. If you already know it, forgive the redundance:
http://gaza-sderot.blogspot.com/
Just to hopefully give you hope, here is a link that might make you feel there is some hope in this dark world... http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/01/senator-joe-zionist-biden-says-get-over-it-israel/
but yes I do feel for your iraq and what the usa has done to it. Hopeful obama will be able to repair the damage that has been done. So please do not be like all the loser repulicans who are now on a quest to destroy any good that obama might attempt to do. have faith in something even if it is your god, but do not walk into the hands of the bush thugs who want your distrust and ill will to transform into reality...
Looks like quite a party goin' on here.
Lets go to Spain, shall we ?
:-)
David, I've enjoyed reading your comment because it carries the fundamental message of PEACE - something we so desperately need. How wonderful this world would be if all of us respected and realised that we have so much to learn from each other, if only we make the effort. Thank you.
In solidarity, Layla. Don't forget you/we owe access to internet to the Americans (US)!!!!!!!!!!
Romanticizing people, as the case of Obama shows, is highly problematic. Rosy colour glasses need to be removed for true visionary perspectives and love should not be blind to hard truths.
When the Europeans came to wht is now called the United States of America, great efforts by the US government were carried out to bring them into the folds of the 'culture' that was taking shape.
The great efforts included the use of so-called treaties, wars & battles, forcing Indian children away from their parents and placing them in 'civilized' schools where rape took place and the intent was to remove the Indian portion from the self and replace it with something else.
The christian religion was also included as part of removing the Indian portion of the self so as to come into alignment with what we know today as 'Western traditions & customs'.
It worked but there are still a few pockets that hold fiercely to their 'pre-invasion' traditions and freedom of once was.
There are many websites that go into detail of 'treaties' betwen the American Indians and the United States government. There are also many websites that go into details of American Indian Boarding Schools.
I will post 2.
The same process is ( has been taking place ) with the illegal / fraudulent case for the United States to invade & occupy Iraq.
http://www.stopusa.be/scripts/texte.php?section=BS&langue=3&id=18022
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/27/8136/87125
Layla, just as what happned here...it happened against Iraq for US expansion that involves expanding United State market share, investment opportunities and resource benefits. The United States drafted laws here, in favor of their own intents, just as the United States' role in drafting the new Iraqi constitution & laws.
Disneyland in Iraq? McDonalds? American christinas peddling their products to try to convert the Muslims in Iraq to christianity? This is all about trying to assimilate Iraqis into the culture of the West.
As I said, the United States of America is a repeat offender but now it goes under the banner of "spreading democracy & fighting a war on terror".
oh the irony
US businesses seek out college graduates from other countries and bring them to the United States in many instances so they can employ them.
Not only are they more skilled & educated, they defintely seem to have a higher quality of work ethics. Too many "American" put alot of energy in how they can actually do less work while on the job and get paid more money.
Also, many people come here to the United States to work, make money and then go back to their country of origin either to start a buseinnes back home or to retire outside of the US.
ha oh well
Excuse me, but Iraq was WHOLE AND INDEPENDENT before it was illegally invaded, occupied and destroyed by the US. There happened to be UNITY and RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, with everyone, including minorities, living in harmony before the US decided to squat on Iraqi soil ... I won't speak about corruption, because corruption happens everywhere, including the US, so please don't use the 'holier than thou' attitude.
And, pray, tell us exactly HOW Iraqis (VICTIMS) are meant to help Obama 'make the world a better place'? This is a serious question ... If anything, Obama should be making every effort to get his people out of the sovereign land of Iraq and then paying reparations (although these could never compensate the wrong that's been done).
I don't think cynicism will help these goals get achieved.
On another note, Ron Paul brought up good points, but he would have destroyed the US from the inside out. Bad choice. I voted for Obama, with hopes that he will help our economy and leave behind the arrogance of the past adminitration.
New Types of Low Interest Loans & Grants from Obama