we are the terrorists. why? well... take a good look at this guy. our fearful leader. imagine that you live in iraq, you have brownish skin and have to worry that you will be ripped from your home and tortured for no reason. or that your house and loved ones could be destroyed at any moment.
why do people in american fear terrorism? do we even know what true terror is? would terror for us be to not be allowed to shop at wal-mart? or not having 2 cars? or a 3-car garage? or seeing shrek 3?
look at it from another perspective - the other side. our leader "gets his orders from god." how is that any different than a leader in the middle east? our leader is motivated by power and money. again, no difference.
how many thousands of people in the middle east have died at the hands of americans? - i wish i could say "died at the hands of white people," but u.s. soldiers are poor and the majority are not white (because rich white folks don't fight wars.)
why does the rest of the world hate us? we are greedy, fat, lazy and ignorant. the last time i went to montreal - even the homeless people i spoke to were bi-lingual... not me.
just a little perspective shift - to let you know where i'm coming from.
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I'm wondering if I am reading these statistics wrong, or if you have some counter statistics?
I like the energy of your critique, don't let it get deflated by bad info.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/images/chart1_large.gif
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/images/table2_large.gif
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/images/table4_large.gif
http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/poprep2001/chapter2/c2_raceth.htm
ok...those links sucked...I'll try to do it this way:
start with the base:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/
then you can tack on these three second halves to the addresses:
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I know that is no fun, but it is the only way this seems to let me get a full address on there.
okay... so it appears that according to these statistics, about 75% of u.s. soldiers are white... so i guess i can say "killed by white people"
yay.
these statistics also show that they are poor (the majority having a median household income averaging around $35,000 a year (which is just a few thousand dollars over the poverty level for a family of 4, i looked it up) and 80% having only a high school diploma.
so, our soldiers are white, poor and uneducated. does that really surprise you?
Eric-
to also respond to your poster- even though the army is 75% white- it is just like all major US orginizations- the white people are in upper management, and minirities and the impoverished are in "entry level" positions, or in this instance, cannon fodder. Nice setup here, on a personal note, as a lifelong spiderman fan, you can wait untill spiderman3 is out on DVD. its worth the 3.75 rental price, hardly worth paying full price at a theater.
Master Mueller
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