'They' don't hate us for our freedoms, but because we're Assholes.

[mopaul]

going around the world acting like bullies and assholes and torturers and pirates and mass murderers is why 'they' hate us.

and who can blame them?

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Put bluntly and succinctly...

...you're spot-on, mo.:thumbsup:

[nookiemonster]

2. No way! Rush told me that they all hate us and want us dead!

:sarcasm:

[gademocrat7]

3. Absolutely

[Crankie Avalon]

4. They hate us because we constantly meddle and exploit...

...overthrowing their democratically elected governments when we don't like them, installing dictators who are our creatures over them, getting them way over their heads in debt through our "foreign aid" to them and then liquidating their country's resources when they can't pay it back.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Interesting that you bring this up now...

I received this in e-mail, just today.

Why the People Must Judge

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other right wing zealots in the U.S. government have conspired to wage an illegal war of aggression against Iraq, kidnap and torture civilians around the world, attack civilians and medical facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. These crimes violate U.S. law, the U.S. Constitution, the Hague and Geneva conventions and other treaties and conventions.

There is no question that the U.S. is responsible for war crimes, the question is who will stand up to the Bush Adminstration. Who can question the U.S.? No politician will speak out. No court will take the case. No international organization is willing to challenge the U.S. No other nation dares to risk retribution from the U.S. government by even raising the issue.

Only the people can challenge these crimes. Only by raising a public hue and cry so loud that the issue cannot be politely ignored will this horrific crime spree be stopped. Join us in calling for the impeachment and indictment for war crimes of Bush, Rumsfeld, Negroponte and others.

http://www.PeopleJudgeBush.org

[Imagevision]

6. They hate us because they know we're there for their Oil and won't be

leaving until the flow of that oil is controlled. All Iraqi civilians are nothing more then collateral damage to Rumsfeld-Bush-Cheney.
And they dub this baby; " operation Iraqi freedom"

[anarch]

7. *They* hate our freedom...

*They* being the ones who are working most assiduously to take it away. Perhaps it's because what's left of our freedoms can still conceivably allow *us* to hold *them* responsible for their crimes.