Thread: Why Are Americans So Angry?

Originally Posted by Pwcca

All the hype about Iraq is just so much spin for popular consumption. If the exact same "atrocities" were happening in Africa (or I dare say any other non-Middle Eastern country for that matter), you can be assured the U.S. would NOT be sending troops there in droves.

I think the Rwandan Genocide is a good example of the situation you are describing.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

I think the Rwandan Genocide is a good example of the situation you are describing.

The war in Iraq is about MANY things, not any one thing.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

I think the Rwandan Genocide is a good example of the situation you are describing.

Yeah and look how much media attention (or rather, lack thereof) that got. The attentions received in Africa are miniscule by comparison. This makes perfect sense, of course, when you consider that there's little to no oil on the African continent and therefore no profit. You don't honestly think America is solely invested in Iraq out of the goodness of its heart? That it's all one grandiose rescue mission? I'm not saying this condescendingly, I'm saying it because I've met some of "my fellow Americans" who really do think this to be the case. Because if that were true, CNN would be pumping out stories about Africa and elsewhere in the world, not just Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, (*cough*brainwash*cough*) Iraq, Iraq, ad nauseum.

The typically mentally sleeping American, who cannot even tell you what two bodies of water border their own country, knows a remarkable amount about Iraq but, unsurprisingly, can very likely not even tell you where on the globe Rwanda sits.

Originally Posted by Pwcca

You don't honestly think America is solely invested in Iraq out of the goodness of its heart? That it's all one grandiose rescue mission?

No, and I don't know anybody who claims it is. The war in Iraq is about MANY things. There is a big picture with many important details that added up to the necessity of war. It was not initiated merely to overthrow just another every day oppressive dictatorship. They were a suicide bomber, Islamofascist government with a history of WMD terrorism and who violated our ceasefire for 12 years on several terrorism grounds, among other things.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

No, and I don't know anybody who claims it is. The war in Iraq is about MANY things. There is a big picture with many important details that added up to the necessity of war. It was not initiated merely to overthrow just another every day oppressive dictatorship. They were a suicide bomber, Islamofascist government with a history of WMD terrorism and who violated our ceasefire for 12 years on several terrorism grounds, among other things.

And they have a lot of oil.

"If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need."

— U.S. Brig. General William Looney
Washington Post, August 30, 1999
referring, in reality, to the brutal mass-murder
of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children
during 10,000 sorties by American/British war criminals
in the first eight months of 1999

Originally Posted by Pwcca

And they have a lot of oil.

Oil in their country and apparently one asshole general in ours. What does that prove?