This will draw some heat, but I agree with most of it.

BMWood5 · #16 12-16-2005, 05:23 AM

[/QUOTE]"When I see Americans like myself I see decent people who are working to survive just like anyone else who lives in any industrialized nation"
Agreed. Americans are decent people working to make a living just like anyone else in an industrialized nation. However, therein lies part of the problem. We are fortunate to live in an industrialized nation which possesses the ability to exploit resources from around the world. Do we work any harder than those decent people working to survive in non-industrialized countries? Is it fair that they are paid third world wages and are stripped of their resources while most of the economic benefit from those resources are exported back to us? Just so that we can go to Wal-Mart or Zellers and buy three of everything for $5.97. Perhaps if we paid more for our resources (both natural and human) and left a greater portion of the economic wealth in these "host" nations there would be a little less desperation, a little more hope and a lot less hate and violence.
Of course this a greatly oversimplified aspect of a larger picture and many of the issues surrounding terrorism are cultural or historical and not economical at all.
To be clear I am not trying to say that the West is necessarily the main cause of these attacks. There is plenty of ignorance and misinformation on their side as well. Not to mention a willingness to blame the West for all [/QUOTE]

Parker, lover of all things Bush and American, please consider Saudi Arabia (still considered a developing nation as well as third world) and think about what they do with their oil money.........

And Parker, just because you are on list 2 doesnt mean we dont luv ya

Hey, sure am glad to be a part of BushWorld.com (ooops, wrong site, i think) This $hit always fasinates me. It either lets ya know how dumb you/they are or how alone you/they might be.

Since I am proud to be an American (music playing in background begins....) I really think everyone should have a say (the first amend. gurantees free entertainment). But PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get your facts str8. Some people do know the score. And with the Patriot Act, some are keeping it. :eek: