Probably this ---> 
Posted on 09/28/2004 3:03:45 PM PDT by kcvl
I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world By Margaret Drabble (Filed: 08/05/2003)
I knew that the wave of anti-Americanism that would swell up after the Iraq war would make me feel ill. And it has. It has made me much, much more ill than I had expected.
My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.
I can hardly bear to see the faces of Bush and Rumsfeld, or to watch their posturing body language, or to hear their self-satisfied and incoherent platitudes. The liberal press here has done its best to make them appear ridiculous, but these two men are not funny.
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There, I have said it. I have tried to control my anti-Americanism, remembering the many Americans that I know and respect, but I can't keep it down any longer. I detest Disneyfication, I detest Coca-Cola, I detest burgers, I detest sentimental and violent Hollywood movies that tell lies about history.
I detest American imperialism, American infantilism, and American triumphalism about victories it didn't even win.
"Margaret Drabble" -- what a fitting name.
The author is mentally ill.
Just saw the show, we need to FReep her tour from start to finish. I think rotten veggies are in order ;).
America uses the word "democracy" as its battle cry, and its nervous soldiers gun down Iraqi civilians when they try to hold street demonstrations to protest against the invasion of their country. So much for democracy. (At least the British Army is better trained.)
America is one of the few countries in the world that executes minors. Well, it doesn't really execute them - it just keeps them in jail for years and years until they are old enough to execute, and then it executes them. It administers drugs to mentally disturbed prisoners on Death Row until they are back in their right mind, and then it executes them, too.
They call this justice and the rule of law. America is holding more than 600 people in detention in Guantánamo Bay, indefinitely, and it may well hold them there for ever. Guantánamo Bay has become the Bastille of America. They call this serving the cause of democracy and freedom.
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We have seen enough boots in the past few months to last us a lifetime. Iraqi boots, American boots, British boots. Enough of boots.
I hate feeling this hatred. I have to keep reminding myself that if Bush hadn't been (so narrowly) elected, we wouldn't be here, and none of this would have happened. There is another America. Long live the other America, and may this one pass away soon.
Poor baby. She should have a nice cup of STFU!
Does anyone have that picture of how to tie a noose that this idiot can study?
Probably this --->
Margaret Drabble-okay, someone with photoshop skills...Michael Moore in drag--no wait, that's Helen Thomas!
We are accustomed to these sobriquets; to phrases such as "collateral damage" and "friendly fire" and "pre-emptive strikes". We have almost ceased to notice when suicide bombers are described as "cowards". The abuse of language is part of warfare. Long ago, Voltaire told us that we invent words to conceal truths. More recently, Orwell pointed out to us the dangers of Newspeak.
But there was something about those playfully grinning warplane faces that went beyond deception and distortion into the land of madness. A nation that can allow those faces to be painted as an image on its national aeroplanes has regressed into unimaginable irresponsibility. A nation that can paint those faces on death machines must be insane.
Ummmm... correct me if I'm wrong, but painting characters on warplanes, dates back at least as far as WWII, and is not a uniquely American custom.
Like stopping Nazism, Communism and a host of other totalitarian states, eh? Margaret, my dearest Useful Idiot, if it wasn't for the U.S., you'd have been raised as the Hitler Youth and would be executed for expressing any opinion contrary to the State. Such is not the case. You're welcome.
I detest American imperialism, American infantilism, and American triumphalism about victories it didn't even win.
If America were truly "imperialist," then we'd count Germany, Holland, France, Japan and North Africa among our states in the union. Get over your rabid anti-Americanism, you silly insignificant chimp.
I suppose she detested Winston Churchill.
I imagine she also despises that America saved her nation from ruin in WWII.
Ingrate bitch.
But you can always try. Bring it on.
Probably she loathes America because, so far, we have been a pretty good demostration that the free market works infinitely better than socialism.
Harpie Queen sounds like a very sad and lonely woman.
I read this rant months ago, it is an old one.
The net really does let you see how many truly insane people there are out there.
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