[QUOTE=tomtucker]no, that was donald rumsfelt and bush.........not the US population[/QUOTE]
Technically, it was the Mahdi Army. They also filmed it.
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[QUOTE=tomtucker]no, that was donald rumsfelt and bush.........not the US population[/QUOTE]
Technically, it was the Mahdi Army. They also filmed it.
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[QUOTE=KevinNYC]Technically, it was the Mahdi Army. They also filmed it.
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:applause: Couldnt have happened to a nicer guy.
Still he could have stopped this mess happening today. ISIL is just take towns at will now
[QUOTE=Marlo_Stanfield]one day you will wake up from your delusions.
not ONCE in the history of mankind has a pro American dictator EVER benefited the people in that region. NOT ONCE.:facepalm[/QUOTE]
:facepalm your criticisms would be less hypocritical if you didn't simultaneously dismiss the far more purposeful crimes of the German empire.
Further as a german you should be thankful that america kept the USSR from occupying all of germany. Eg. compare west germany and east germany.
America helped germany and western europe a lot. Do you honestly think after the devastation of WW2 without american interference you all wouldn't have become soviet satellites?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany[/url]
[QUOTE]As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II mass rapes took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation. Most Western scholars agree that the majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet servicemen, but estimates vary widely. Russian historians have criticized the estimates and argue that these crimes were not widespread.
[B]The majority of the assaults were committed in the Soviet occupation zone; estimates of the numbers of German women raped by Soviet soldiers ranged up to 2 million.[1][6][7][8][9] In many cases women were the victims of repeated rapes, some as many as 60 to 70 times.[10] At least 100,000 women are believed to have been raped in Berlin, based on surging abortion rates in the following months and contemporary hospital reports,[7] with an estimated 10,000 women dying in the aftermath.[11] Female deaths in connection with the rapes in Germany, overall, are estimated at 240,000.[3][12] Antony Beevor describes it as the "greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history", and has concluded that at least 1.4 million women were raped in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia alone[/B].[/QUOTE]
via the marshall plan the US made modern europe possible
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan[/url]
[QUOTE]The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.[1] The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948.[2] The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again.[3] The phrase "equivalent of the Marshall Plan" is often used to describe a proposed large-scale rescue program.[4]
The initiative[5] was named after Secretary of State George Marshall. The plan had bipartisan support in Washington, where the Republicans controlled Congress and the Democrats controlled the White House. The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan, with help from Brookings Institution, as requested by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[6] Marshall spoke of an urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947[/QUOTE]
You're welcome.
Nobody from western europe, Canada, Kuwait, japan, taiwan or south korea has any right to criticize america.
if Germany would have gotten absorbed by the USA i wouldnt complain( i wouldnt have been born anyway) because they would have deserved it.
what Germany did in the past in a 20 year span has nothing to do with what America is doing through their entire history to this day
[QUOTE=Marlo_Stanfield]if Germany would have gotten absorbed by the USA i wouldnt complain( i wouldnt have been born anyway) because they would have deserved it.
what Germany did in t[B][B]he past in a 20 year span has [/B][/B]nothing to do with what America is doing through their entire history to this day[/QUOTE]
You realize imperial germany is different from nazi germany right?
[QUOTE=MavsSuperFan]You realize imperial germany is different from nazi germany right?[/QUOTE]
no,i
[QUOTE=Marlo_Stanfield]one day you will wake up from your delusions.
n[B][B]ot ONCE in the history of mankind has a pro American dictator EVER benefited the people in that region. NOT ONCE.[/B][/B]:facepalm[/QUOTE]
Off the top of my head:
Taiwan - Chiang Kai Shek was a dictator that only managed to survive losing the chinese civil war, because the US 7th fleet prevented mao from invading. He was basically a military dictator in taiwan until his death
[QUOTE]Chiang Ching kuo succeeded his father to serve as Premier of the Republic of China between 1972 and 1978, and was the President of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988. Under his tenure, the government of the Republic of China, while authoritarian, became more open and tolerant of political dissent. Towards the end of his life, Chiang relaxed government controls on the media and speech and allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor Lee Teng-hui.[/QUOTE]
It was only during his son's leadership of taiwan that it became a genuine democracy. Today Taiwan is a vibrant pro american democracy with a dynamic free market economy. People live in a highly developed first world country.
South Korea -Syngman Rhee and Park Chung-hee were both dictators of south korea. Korea was a colony of japan. The russians took the north, we took the south. The russians gave the north to kim il sung. We gave the south to rhee
[QUOTE]Park Chung-hee (Korean: [paktɕ͈ʌŋhi] 14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979) was a South Korean president and military general who led South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979. Park seized power through a military coup d'
[QUOTE=MavsSuperFan]:facepalm your criticisms would be less hypocritical if you didn't simultaneously dismiss the far more purposeful crimes of the German empire.
Further as a german you should be thankful that america kept the USSR from occupying all of germany. Eg. compare west germany and east germany.
America helped germany and western europe a lot. Do you honestly think after the devastation of WW2 without american interference you all wouldn't have become soviet satellites?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany[/url]
via the marshall plan the US made modern europe possible
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan[/url]
You're welcome.
Nobody from western europe, Canada, Kuwait, japan, taiwan or south korea has any right to criticize america.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to 2014. :oldlol:
[QUOTE=Done_And_Done]Muslims are actually very peace driven people my dude. It's the extremists that are worrisome to the rest of the world...[/QUOTE]
that's not truth
see any census done on muslims in any country with a noticeable muslim population and you will see support for the extremism/fundamentalism/etc. ranging from 20 to 100% of approval (and that % goes up the bigger the % of muslim population in the country is)
Your great grandfather was just as bad as me. Therefore you can't criticize me. Some logic. :applause:
I love the US as a country but the foreign policy has done A LOT of damage, with a little bit of good sprinkled in between, and needs a MAJOR overhaul.
[QUOTE=Gr
Isis captured the country's main oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad.
[QUOTE=MavsSuperFan]US foreign policy has done far more good than bad.
The fact that you dont speak russian is a testament to that fact.
If a south american were to criticize american foreign policy, than thats fair. But not a western european[/QUOTE]
Like I said, welcome to 2014.
[QUOTE=Gr
[QUOTE=MavsSuperFan]1. name a country in the world that does more good than the US currently?
2. - Guaranteeing the defense and sovereignty of NATO countries, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, philippines, Israel, arab allies, etc Thus allowing these countries to spend on non military things.
- largest total expenditure on foreign aid
- largest culumlative private donations to foreign charities
Basically every time a country gets in trouble it turns to the US.
Eg. Ukraine[/QUOTE]
America!!!
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