I didn't see anyone force australia to get involved ?
True, it's not like GWB had to do anything more than look in his lapdog John Howard's general direction and that obsequious little prick was falling all over himself to drag us into the mess.
It's not MY pointless war based on lies, *I* didn't start it, *I* didn't agree with it, *I* had votes not count in the elections of 2000 and 2004, and I went to many protest rallies against it. This is another classic case of assuming that just because i'm american it means every american chose to have things happen the way they did.
Point taken. My apologies.
I watched live on tv as the second plane hit the trade center building, the feelings then were very different to what they were later.
I'm really not sure what the 9/11 attacks had to do with Iraq.
The big issues are health care, job security, schools, etc. Those things amount to a hill of beans here.
What about US foreign policy? What about the Republicans' obsession with starting another war, any war, as long as they've got somebody to drop bombs on somewhere? You don't think that affects anybody else? You don't think they'll be trying to drag us into it if they start waving their dicks at Iran or Syria?
Besides which, why should people in other countries not have an opinion about what happens in the US? It's not like the US has ever been backward in coming forward with their opinions about what other countries do, often to the extent of trying to influence our laws in ways that benefit their business interests (drug laws, copyright laws, just to name two examples). Looking at America as a whole, they honestly seem to think that it's their world, and the rest of us are just living in it.
I have friends in America, none of whom are keen to live under the kind of theocratic dictatorship the current Republican party are dying to impose on the country. You only have to look at the current War On Women for evidence of that. If they manage to take the White House in November, women's rights in the US will be set back decades. The American Taliban are nearly as dangerous to the US as the regular ol' Taliban are to the people of Afghanistan. Hell, there are some on the far right who are wanting to impose the death penalty for homosexuality. If we get to have opinions about these things when they happen in Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, we get to have opinions about them when they happen in the US, too.
