'What have Americans ever done for us?'

The Times ^

[Convert from ECUSA]

"What have Americans ever done for us"? - the craven Eurabians squak.

Well, for starters, let the tour the graves at Normandy, around Bastogne, the graves where the U.S. Marines fought the Germans in 1918. No, American is not 10000% perfect. But what would those Eurabians be living under if D-Day had never happend? But then again, the Eurabians could care less.

[pissant]

A clever article, and it rings true.

[Shortwave]

All right, all right. But apart from liberating 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan

I'm surprise the editors at this rag allowed this quote to get through. Somehow, I find it juxtapose to the Times position. Then again, you won't see a quote like this in the Guardian or the New York Times now known to me as the New York Crimes.

[satchmodog9]

Yah, well... America is evil. I know it is so it is true. What about Haliburton. War for oil, Imperialism. Genetically modified foods. McDonalds. SUVs, air coditioning, nice homes, phone and electric everywhere. Pollution from your hedonist lifestyle. Pushing freedom on the happily oppressed. Why are you so happy while so many in the world suffer. I hate America.

[Aquinasfan]

Scene 9

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The commandos

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FRANCIS:

We're gettin' in through the underground heating system here, up through into the main audience chamber here, and Pilate's wife's bedroom is here. Having grabbed his wife, we inform Pilate that she is in our custody and forthwith issue our demands. Any questions?

COMMANDO XERXES:

What exactly are the demands?

REG:

We're giving Pilate two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the Roman Imperialist State, and if he doesn't agree immediately, we execute her.

MATTHIAS:

Cut her head off?

FRANCIS:

Cut all her bits off. Send 'em back on the hour every hour. Show them we're not to be trifled with.

REG:

And of course, we point out that they bear full responsibility when we chop her up, and that we shall not submit to blackmail!

COMMANDOS:

No blackmail!

REG:

They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.

LORETTA:

And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG:

Yeah.

LORETTA:

And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG:

Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!

XERXES:

The aqueduct?

REG:

What?

XERXES:

The aqueduct.

REG:

Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.

COMMANDO #3:

And the sanitation.

LORETTA:

Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?

REG:

Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.

MATTHIAS:

And the roads.

REG:

Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--

COMMANDO:

Irrigation.

XERXES:

Medicine.

COMMANDOS:

Huh? Heh? Huh...

COMMANDO #2:

Education.

COMMANDOS:

Ohh...

REG:

Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.

COMMANDO #1:

And the wine.

COMMANDOS:

Oh, yes. Yeah...

FRANCIS:

Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.

COMMANDO:

Public baths.

LORETTA:

And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.

FRANCIS:

Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.

COMMANDOS:

Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.

REG:

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

XERXES:

Brought peace.

REG:

Oh. Peace? Shut up!

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MATTHIAS:

I am a poor man. My sight is poor. My legs are old and bent, and--

JUDITH:

It's all right, Matthias.

MATTHIAS:

It's all clear.

JUDITH:

Well, where's Reg?

FRANCIS:

Oh, Reg. Reg, it's Judith.

REG:

What went wrong?

JUDITH:

The first blow has been struck!

REG:

Did he finish the slogan?

JUDITH:

A hundred times, in letters ten foot high, all the way around the palace!

REG:

Oh, great. Great. We-- we need doers in our movement, Brian, but... before you join us, know this: there is not one of us here who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.

COMMANDO:

Uhh. Well, one.

REG:

Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's one, but otherwise, we're solid. Are you with us?

BRIAN:

Yes!

REG:

From now on, you shall be called 'Brian that is called Brian'. Tell him about the raid on Pilate's palace, Francis.

FRANCIS:

Right. This is the plan...

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[Huck]

I want to be called Loretta.

[martin_fierro]

Turns out they weren't so silly after all.

[kabar]

I doubt that anybody, even the most prescient in the Bush Administration or at 10 Downing Street, thought the progress we are now seeing would come as quickly as it has.

The same holds true for the Berlin Wall. No one could have imagined that just two years after Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" speech the Belin Wall would fall followed by the breakup of the Soviet Union. I can recite chapter and verse of how many times the conventional or expert opinion got it wrong.

[Brilliant]

Well, for one thing, they'd be goose-stepping if we had not stopped Hitler.

[Mr. K]

compare this to what the clintoon did in 8 years...


W is the next Reagan (JUST GET RID OF SOME SPENDING AND REFORM TAXES)

[rlmorel]

I believe the correct phrase to refer to them is...

"Eurinals"

[rudypoot]

In a nutshell, the veil of fear was cast off of the populations and their leaders have it. There are only two motivations of a dictator: fear and power. Only fear will motivate them into concession. In Saddam's case, he did not fear the US invasion because he had no reason to (Clinton/Europe). That invasion prompted Libya to give up their WMD programs because the fashion-brain-dead dictator feared the US.

The populations were skeptical of what was going on in Iraq until the Iraqi elections. This was the tipping point in the hearts and minds of other populations. The courage of the Iraqi people is spreading. Now all it will take in other countries to stand up to their dictators is a 'trigger event' such as an assassination that happened in Lebannon. All revolutions require a one; they are not spontaneous. It will be interesting what is going to be the trigger event in Iran.

On the other hand, the only country that no one is talking about -including the President- is Pakistan. The dictator Musharraf is getting a pass from the US and the international community.

[FastCoyote]

I need to send this to some eurotrash that still don't get it.

[dangus]

France wanted to be rescued from Hitler like Dennis Galahad wanted to be rescued from the forty very naughty virgins.

[halfright]

I have heard rumors from friend is France implying that some are organizing to force the removal of American wardead from French soil.


This is a great idea...get our sacred remains off that filthy, yellow French soil. F FRANCE!


Semper Fi

[Question_Assumptions]

There's a funny variation of this scene in the movie Undercover Brother. Angry Bother (played by Dave Chapelle) asks, "What have the Republicans ever done for a black man?" Smart Brother responds, "Well Lincoln did sign the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves and..." to witch Angry Brother responds in frustration, "Name two things they did recently!"

Actually, with Condi Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas, that question could be answered, too, though I'm sure other answers could also be given.

[elbucko]

The same holds true for the Berlin Wall. No one could have imagined that just two years after Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" speech the Berlin Wall would fall followed by the breakup of the Soviet Union.

That's a factual understatement. I was stationed in the army in the late 60's in Germany in an artillery unit. I had been a "Youth for Goldwater" in high school. I knew the geo-political, "lay-of-the-land" in Europe at the time. I visited the Berlin Wall and "Checkpoint Charlie". I was a US soldier in NATO, on the East West Frontier, ready to take on the commie hordes of the Warsaw Pact. I knew I would die the first day of the the first week. If anyone in our arty battery would have said that I would witness the fall of the Soviet Union, the dissolution of the Warsaw pact and some of its members become members of NATO, within my own lifetime, I would have called the M.P.'s to haul him away as a Section 8!

Twenty years later the wall came down from within. I was speechless as I watched it all on TV, here in the US! It was a miracle in my own time!

Peace is, indeed, possible in the Middle East, if we have no more Clinton's after Bush.