[PoisedWoman]

this white man maintained colonialism of these peoples for centuries, and this caused the backwardness from which they [the Americans] want to rescue us today!… Riiiiiiight.We most assuredly caused their backwardness....why I remember grandpa telling me how he evicted Arabs from luxury condos in the desert and taught tribesmen to live in goatskin tents and tribeswomen to comb their hair with camel urine while he romped away with their inventions and technology.

[Smile-n-Win]

Our people, whose civilization is 7,000 years old

The guy who wrote this doesn't know how to use his calculator. The Arabs came to Egypt in 639.

[Egon]

While I was stationed in Germany, I had the opportunity to visit East Berlin. The policy of the Army was to have us strip all rank, insignia, and identification from our uniforms and take us across the border.

It was a very enlightening trip. There were lines everywhere to buy limited varieties of bland merchandise. Cars were identical and all painted variations of the same drab pastel color.

As we were walking across a huge square punctuated by a statue to one of the "people's heroes", a middle-aged man came up our group, swore at us in German (I could barely follow his dialect) and spat on the ground in front of us.

Although, intellectually, I could understand the fact that this attitude was most likely born out of ignorance and decades of propoganda, it didn't stop the sting.

Ironically, less than six months later the Wall fell and thousands of East Germans, wide-eyed, flooded the rest of Europe. It'd be interesting to meet the same man and have a discussion today.

I believe it is extremely difficult for the average Arab, living in what they've been told is a democracy already, to appreciate the possibilities of true freedom. Although it's possible, I believe it's going to be a long, difficult struggle to make meaningful changes in the Middle East. The successful liberation of Iraq will, and already is, making this evolution infinitely easier.

[Lazamataz]

It appears that the American president, Little Bush, relies on a group of hashish-smoking advisors

Um, no.

That would be Bill Clinton.

[Lazamataz]

Last Thursday, 'Brother' W. Bush proved that although he is idiotic, stupid, fascist, and criminal; he is also base. He surprised the [puppets] of America's creation who play, in our lands, the role of tyrannical leaders in his [i.e. Bush's] public statement…

Democrat Underground never wrote it this well.