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We hate to love the US. . . but we do
The Dublin Sunday Tribune ^ | June 8, 2008 | Richard Aldous

Posted on 06/07/2008 6:19:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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How does Iraq affect Europe? Or is it just one more excuse for BDS and anti-Americanism?
1 posted on 06/07/2008 6:19:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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USA is the last best hope and the rest are corrupt and humanistic.


2 posted on 06/07/2008 6:22:19 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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How does Iraq affect Europe? Or is it just one more excuse for BDS and anti-Americanism?

I've worked for a large, German-owned and based pharmaceutical company for 15 years. I deal with German visitors from HQ to our Ohio offices. They don't like us. They didn't like us long before Iraq, and they won't like us 15 years after we leave Iraq. I really believe there's still a lot of resentment from WWII, and a ton of jealousy regarding our way of life. You have to see them shop to believe it. Almost like the sacking of Rome.

3 posted on 06/07/2008 6:29:38 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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Asked "Do you think the United States is overall a force for good or evil in today's world?", an astonishing 43% of respondents said "force for evil."

Once Europe transitions to Eurabia, the dhimmified remaining non-mulsim population is gonna miss the USA big time!

4 posted on 06/07/2008 6:32:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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We wouldn’t have had to go into Iraq if it wasn’t for Europe selling them all that weaponry and technology to make weapons. And there’s a pretty good chance they cleaned it all out before we came in too.

A little hypocritical I think.


5 posted on 06/07/2008 6:33:43 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. Fight back or STFU!!!)
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To: The Zeropeans

"view the current administration as a 'force for evil"

If it weren't for W's aggressive actions in the war on terror more than one European city would be smoldering in ruin today.


6 posted on 06/07/2008 6:34:31 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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No European is going to admit to American exceptionalism. They are post-national, post-Christian, post-modern. They don’t understand our commitment to guns, to capital punishment (the horror!), to religion, to capitalism. That’s all so bourgeois and passe and provincial. We’re a bunch of rubes, cowboys like President Bush. Frankly, I don’t give a damn what they think.


7 posted on 06/07/2008 6:35:54 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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June 6, 1944 will never be repeated.


8 posted on 06/07/2008 6:36:45 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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Their media, and ours, have been on a seven year crusade to denigrate President Bush. If anyone was not in a position to see facts, rather than the constant barrage of propaganda, they would normally accept it. The old story of telling a lie often enough it becomes the truth.

A year ago or maybe longer, I read or heard a report where they gave a percentage of favorable articles versus unfavorable of network TV. CBS and NBC were in the single digits, while ABC had 0% positive stories about the President.

In other words, the negative rants are all the public sees.

Has any President in history been under assault as this one has??? I do believe this has been a deliberate and planned attack of the DNC, which has paid off for them in spades.

9 posted on 06/07/2008 6:37:33 PM PDT by elpadre
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“Quite frankly Scarlett .. I don’t give a damn”

They only hate us until they’re in trouble - then they always expect America to come to the rescue - they should be more grateful that we do. But, thanks to the liberals, children are never taught of the many years America has sacrificed their best and brightest to save their sorry behinds.


10 posted on 06/07/2008 6:40:44 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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Screw Europe. In short fashion they will have ceded their soveriegnty and liberty to Islam. They don't reproduce while the Islamic immigrants do. That writing is on the wall.

And sooner or later they will come begging once again for America to pull their asses out of the embers. I hope my grandsons vote to tell them to get lost.

11 posted on 06/07/2008 6:43:26 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather.)
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Most European non-gay men (there’s probably still some) are jealous of our guy’s sexual prowess during the last European war. They can vent, but it really doesn’t matter.


12 posted on 06/07/2008 6:48:59 PM PDT by Gothmog (I fight for Xev)
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I agree; all the ‘self hate” of America that the main stream media pumps out, what it stands for and ANYTHING Republican or Conservative is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc., etc.... All that negativity feeds those who still watch the msm for their news.....<P Who comes to the rescue when one of Eurabias’ cities is attacked bigtime???Let them fend for themselves....


13 posted on 06/07/2008 6:51:18 PM PDT by cfrels
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“Their media, and ours, have been on a seven year crusade to denigrate President Bush. If anyone was not in a position to see facts, rather than the constant barrage of propaganda, they would normally accept it. The old story of telling a lie often enough it becomes the truth.
A year ago or maybe longer, I read or heard a report where they gave a percentage of favorable articles versus unfavorable of network TV. CBS and NBC were in the single digits, while ABC had 0% positive stories about the President.

In other words, the negative rants are all the public sees.

Has any President in history been under assault as this one has??? I do believe this has been a deliberate and planned attack of the DNC, which has paid off for them in spades.”


Worth repeating. You nailed it.


14 posted on 06/07/2008 6:53:36 PM PDT by marktwain
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The question begs an answer. . .too bad this was not a multiple choice. And sad; that ‘evil’ was even a consideration.


15 posted on 06/07/2008 6:56:08 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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You are right buccaneer, this is nothing new. I remember their contempt for Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. They called Carter “that peanut farmer.” They hated Reagan and Bush regardless of what they did, and I had at one time thought that it was only confined to academe and their media, but not anymore. I believe these numbers in these polls. They are only confirmed by what I read in their newspapers today.

There was a time when I was learning history and was quite horrified by how long it took the US to join Europe in WWII.
The more I read the more I became convinced that our fathers and grandfathers knew precisely what they were doing. Europe has heaped scorn on the US and the American people since our birth, and then they wanted help? Really? And somehow they after all of the insults and abuse they felt entitled to that help too. Really?

If something were to happen in Europe today, I wouldn’t care a bit, nor demand that our government lift a finger to help them. American lives should never be sacrificed again for any European. The place could burn to the ground for all I would care.


16 posted on 06/07/2008 7:07:14 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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How does Iraq affect Europe? Or is it just one more excuse for BDS and anti-Americanism?

Eurotrash leaders were getting fat doing business with Hussein, mostly under the table. Remember "Oil for Food?" We blew their little clusterf*ck all to pieces when the Marines and US Army instituted some "Change we can believe in" over there.

The wretched feather merchants have never forgiven us.

17 posted on 06/07/2008 7:09:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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If it weren't for W's aggressive actions in the war on terror more than one European city would be smoldering in ruin today.

You nailed it. Prevention is the second-most thankless job in the universe.

18 posted on 06/07/2008 7:11:48 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great...(until it happens to YOU).)
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The great emigration from Italy to America ended abruptly with the Immigration act of 1924, 84 years ago. I doubt their are 16 million born in Italy immigrants in the US today. More like a million. The 16 million figure is more likely the number of Americans with Italian ancestry.


19 posted on 06/07/2008 7:12:29 PM PDT by Gaetano
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Has any President in history been under assault as this one has???

Richard Nixon. Worse.

20 posted on 06/07/2008 7:13:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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