I'll agree that 'some' Americans care about what other countries feel but not most. Certainly Bush doesn't, he's repeated that fact dozen of times. That's a crucial mistake. How can we really expect any respect other countries with someone like this in power? This isn't a game, we're losing human lives because of him. Most Americans live in a censored bubble away from what other countries think about them, away from what's really going within the United States itself. Bush and Cheney FINALLY just admitted that Iraq didn't have WMD's, a fact that has been widely known for over a year now. They just admitted to it LAST WEEK. According to the last poll, over 80% of the people that watch Fox news believed that we had already found WMD's. Do you not see a problem with that??? Everything in this last election has been turned around and twisted to the point that most people here in the United States have no clue what the truth is... unless you actually read between the lies/lines.
The United States created the UN, Bush turned his back on them and now we're in a war that we can't rush out of. I wish that we could, we have no business being there. Yes, Saddam is a bad guy, but the people there should have fought and died if needed to remove him from power. Easier said than done, agreed, but if you want something, you have to make sacrifices.
Who said that they wanted our kind of 'freedom' anyway? People are so arrogant. Do you really think that our capitalistic Britney Spears pop culture should be forced on people? People are fighting/dying for oil/money and we drive Hummers that get 8 miles/gallon and have atheletes getting paid $20million/year for playing a game while our educators and health care professionals can barely afford a house with starting salaries in the $30k range... and the whole time we have a huge homeless and health care problem.
How frustrating
