[Preventer Wind]

Originally posted by BlackThornn
The native americans have had some real bad shit (a lot worse than the holocoust or Stalin's ethnic purges even) handed to them by americans.. how would you feel if the Albanian government came to your house with Sitting Bear and his family saying that they were going to live in your house from now on? That's how the Palestinians have felt for years about the Israeli situation. EXTREMIST suicide bombers are a very, very small minority in the Palestinian population, despite the constant atrocities being committed by the Israeli military every day and week. Even just armed rebels (the kind that shoot at OTHER SOLDIERS) are a small portion of the population. Yet everyone is getting killed by Israeli tanks and infantry fanning out through civillian areas, all in the name of stopping terror and defending the "homeland" from which they did not originate and had been away from for hundreds of years prior to the UN/US returning them to it after the second world war.

I never said I agreed that they were given their homeland back. In fact I said I thought it was wrong. (And I am part Native American but I understand what you mean) I was only trying to say that they had no where to go. No country was going to take that many people and they were certainly not going to stay in Germany. I agree that over the span of time the Native Americans have had far greater losses. But the Jews suffered so much in the span of a decade they had to be given something. It was really a lose lose situation.

Kim Jong Il is a little friggin pygmy that runs his country as one giant personality cult. He cannot even FATHOM the fact that american presidents are supposed to follow the will of the PEOPLE instead of themselves, and he's quite literally playing with the nuclear fire by threatening American soil with a Nuclear Strike? That's sane?

No, playing with nuclear weapons is not sane. But a lot of Koreans think that what he does is perfectly fine. I think that compared to Saddam he is less of a threat. In fact a lot of South Koreans think that the US is a bigger threat to do hard to them then North Korea. Saddam has absolute authority and a past that is not for the faint hearted.

It's not from the slowly rising price of crude oil barrels anyway, AMERICAN companies are preemptively jacking up the price and gouging the consumer, there's even a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION taking place to look into it. Don't blame the middle east for western corruption.

Yeah, that is a joke. They talk about Microsoft being a monopoly when there has to be someone behind ALL the gas companies. We will cal him.... THE GAS MAN. Or they are all greedy bastards. But can you blame them? It's one of the most important things people need. Like anyone wants to ride a bike to work or walk to work. The bus is for desperate measures. If you are paying 2.90 for gas then I feel sorry for you. There is corruption every where and there is really no way around it for some things.

One interesting side note.... It has been reported that Iraq fired some Scud missiles.... missiles they swore they didn't have. If this is true (Which could or could not be given the past of these things) If it is true though then I think it can be safe to say he has worse weapons....