Originally posted by: palehorse74
a few facts for those of you who keep throwing around the words "imperialist" and "pillaging"...
1) The only people the US military intends to kill in Iraq, or elsewhere, are terrorists.
2) We are not in Iraq to conquer land. If the insurgents put down ALL of their weapons, our military would spend the majority of its time building roads, wells, houses, schools, hospitals, and improvements to their infrastructure. The Special Forces will concentrate on cleaning out the terrorists, but the rest of the military in Iraq would not intend to kill ANY innocent Iraqi citizens.
3) Anyone who attempts to shoot or blow up an American automatically becomes our enemy. period.
4) al Sadr has taken up arms against innocent Iraqi citizens AND the US military. He, and all the other insurgents who attack American soldiers, are NOT "defending their lands from an invader." In fact, because the US is not in Iraq to conquer the lands or enslave the people, the actions of al Sadr and his friends make them terrorists. period.
5) Despising Bush for his policies and actions is no excuse for your embracing of those who would take up arms against American soldiers. In fact, there is NO excuse for doing so. NONE. Anyone who embraces or encourages the actions of our enemies is a bonafied traitor. period.
g'night.
Now, apply this same logic to a foreign power doing to the US what the US is doing to Iraq.
If another nation had its forces occupying the United States in the same way, with the same intentions - they'll concentrate on building our infrastructure if we don't attack...
No, you would sing a very different tune about our need to attack the occupier, I think.
The difference in your view depending whether you are the one occupying or the one occupied exposes the error in your ideologically-biased position.
You greatly understate the problem of our behavior, spoken like any imperial power.
With a foreign army marching around raiding American homes when it pleases, setting up arrangements for foreign ownership of 80% of our resources, I'm sure you would be out saying how they're not the aggressor and that we should simply not attack them because if they aren't attack, their intent is not to kill innocent Americans. Of course not - the message of an occupier, a conquerer, a colonizer, an empire, is almost always, surrender and you will be allowed to live. Isn't that why our founding father didn't attack Britain?
