[Chappy]

i dont understand how its so easy to hate america and distrust the government when the US is the most benevolent country in the world

*this is not a nationalistic rant and/or editorial comment by another self-righteous american but i do know our history and if you had to list the US in either evil or benevolent terms, i know that we have had our grubby paws in alot of messed up situations throughout the world but after helping to rebuild japan after WWII, sending Aid to all parts of the globe (Somalia, Ethiopia etc etc), sending aid and troops to stop the murdering of innocents (Kosovo, Haiti, Kuwait, Iraq), why does America automatically become the "evil empire builder" whenever someone dies/gets hurt and there is an American within 5 miles?

america is not sinless especially in the 20th century but you are going to have to a long way to try and convince me that the nation as a whole would elect leaders in order to fuck over the rest of the planet as a matter of sport.

to the credit of the defense dept, they were the ones that came forward and started investigating Abu Ghraib back in january, no matter what cnn wants to say about being the first to get their hands on the story

i dont believe the video to be false but i also can't believe that people think the US would use something so horrific to divert people's attention to mistakes the US military is doing its best to try and make right (versus covering it up)

of all the political systems tried throughout the world, democracy (all forms of it) stands at the top of the heap, in spite of its flaws. without gov't, the world would be in chaos (notice i didnt say: without the US GOVT) and I for one try to see the US presence in Iraq as sincerely trying to help the world be a better place and not a war for oil/ revenge for daddy/ wiping out islam/ creating a 51st US state in the middle east

i guess its time to sit back and wait for everyone to tell me what a *insert pithy insult commenting on my IQ here* i am for what i believe