Is the United States terrorists? stayy with me on this one, see details?

[here_it_is_music]

Ok so terrorism is threating to do things to make people do what you want. If the United states is having this war because they want oil or iraqs weapons of mass destrucitons, arent we terroists too? We are worse because we arent just therating to kill iraq people but we are actually doing it to get what we want. I don't know much about this war, or why it is even going on. I'm just a 14 year old kid, trying to figure out whats going on in this world. Can someone please explain
but we are blaming iraq for being terrorists, and sterotyping them into it, but we are terrorists ourselves? but we just make it better because we are saying we have a good reason for it? terrorism is terrorism.

 

[Bruno]

In the past our actions weren't so "nice". In World War II general LeMay firebombed Japan killing hundreds of thousands of civilians [Yes, I am aware of the "Nankin Rape", Pearl Harbor and the "Bataan March" of 1942]. And we nuked them, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And our "creative" scientists like Oppenheimer, Fermi and others supported it. Yes, the Japanese soldiers weren't "nice". My question is if some Japanese school kid in Hiroshima should be "blamed"? And in the Korean war we murdered hundred of Korean civilians, including oldsters, women and kids. And Vietnam, wow, we bombed them with "Orange Agent" chemicals and bombed the smithereens out of them. You can see the scars today in part of Vietnam. And we used the CIA in dirty operations in Latin America. Even Robert F. Kennedy, a "liberal", supported political murders. He ordered Dominican dictador Trujillo killed in 1961, and tried, unsucessfully, to kill Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Incidentally, Guevara was killed in 1967. Not that he was a "saint" as some leftists like to think. But political assassination is a complete "No-No" for me. And Bonzo pal Ronald Reagan pushed for terror against Nicaragua and El Salvador. And the Persian Gulf War of 1991, a "good war", we killed thousands of Iraquis civilians. Well, as you can see, we ain't "Winnie the Pooh" nor the cute "Teletubbies". Rather we think we are the "Lone Ranger" but ends up acting like a Frankenstein monster [Mary Shelley would have been in a shock with USA's history] or King Kong. Any wonder why we are so surprised of terrorism? Not me.
P.D. Thanks goodness for reverend Wright!

 

[The First Dragon]

First, a terrorist is somebody who practices terrorism. Terrorism is attacking defenseless civilians on purpose instead of military or defense targets. The purpose of terrorism is to frighten your opponent to such an extent that they will give up without a fight. Attacking a military target may or may not be justified, but it is not terrorism.
The US doesn't have any policy of attacking civilians by preference. If it is found that a US soldier has done that, he will be tried and punished. US troops sometimes hit civilians when they are trying to hit terrorists or other fighting forces.
Next, the US invaded Iraq because the government of Iraq was practicing terrorism and supporting terrorists in other countries. It was not for the oil. If we wanted the oil, we could have bought it cheaper. Other countries did. Maybe that was a good way to solve the problem, or maybe it could have been done better another way.
However, once we removed Iraq's government, it would have been unconscionable to leave the country without re-stabilizing it. Leaving them without any government at all would have been worse. So we have to help put in a new government that can control the country, before we abandon them.
The vast majority of Iraqi people are decent regular people and not terrorists. They want freedom and they have courage, since vast numbers of them voted in the first free elections, in spite of death threats by the terrorists.
The terrorist there are partly members of the old government trying to get back into power, and partly Islamist extremists, many of whom come from other countries or get weapons and help from other countries. These terrorists are enemies of the Iraqi people as much as they are enemies of the West.
This is a very complicated situation and no doubt some things have gone wrong, but neither the US troops nor most of the Iraqi people are terrorists.

 

[Landon]

We are just trying to prevent and sort of national security risks

 

[Rick V]

Yes. The US is a terrorist military in Iraq.

The Iraqi government is a US puppet government and it is always being coerced into doing what the USA wants. The US says it's up to the Iraqis to decide and then the American politicians go over and say do such-and-such or we won't do such-and-such.

Such as privatization of oil companies. Promoting 100% US corporate ownership etc.

 

[tony]

We were there for the oil in the beginning. But the U.S. government is telling us that we are fighting a "war on terrorism". Where are the terrorists? Who asked the U.S. to be saviors in Iraq. If Iraq needed the U.S's help then they would have asked other countries too. We went there for oil. The military vehicles use a very large amount of the countries oil. If this is truly a war on terror then why isn't our government telling us any information about it. And when they do tell us they alter the information and make it seam like we're the good guys. For example, in the case of the "pentagon papers" a former employee of the pentagon released information about the us involvment in the vietnam war. The newyork times recieved the information, but the government tried to say it was a case of national security and they should not be allowed to publish the information. The newyork times won the case against the us government in the supreme court. And they freely published the information. The people have a right to know what is going on in our government. We pay taxes to support a war that has no purpose. We have no use being in iraq, and we never should have been there in the first place. What did iraq ever do to us? Many people would like to know what is going on but the government won't tell us. The u.s. are the terrorist's in iraq.

The dictionary.com definition of a terrorism is:
"The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."

Did iraq do this to us?
Or did we do this to them?




Hopefully i answered some of your questions.


I recommend watching movies such as loose change, it talks about the 9/11 attacks and how terrorists could not have done it.