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Hi Yankee Wifey, welcome to JC. There’s no-one up in UK yet so I will answer…
I presume GB means George Bush and not Great Britain – we just use the surname when we talk about that twonk in the Whitehouse.
I don’t think Bush did it for the benefit of major corporations – I think he did it to secure the future supply of oil assets generally and because he needed to find a soft target after 9/11 (he knew the strengths of the Iraqi military and he knew the land). Think how many more US/UK lives would have been lost had he tried to fight any of the other countries in that region. Not that he did it for the RIGHT reasons, of course, just he thought if he HAD to fight a middle-eastern country after 9/11 then Iraq would be the easiest. I can’t remember but I assume the polls at the time were very much in favour of action against Iraq.
I think Americans generally are gullible and ignorant of world history. Things will be changing because of the availibility of news on the Internet/CNN etc but the fact remains most of its people don’t own a passport, haven’t even left their own state and, quite frankly, have no interest in what goes on outside their shores. Watch your national or regional evening news programmes and, current Iraq/Israeli events aside, how much time is given over to foreign news. Normally zilch.
There will always be exceptions who actually care about America’s image (like you perhaps) and, given the population size, I am sure that millions of Americans have a very deep understanding of world events but the majority don’t. We get quite a bit of the US news over here, albeit mainly business and politics. I dare say not many of us are too interested in general news stories from USA but most of us will have a view on your political issues.
Just as Germans are a nation of sausage-munching, beer-swilling oafs, Frenchies are garlic-breathed, double-crossing b@stards and British are tea-drinking, terribly polite shopowners, Americans will often be viewed as fat, arrogant, greedy, badly-educated bullies. The difficulty you have is that the entire Rest-of-the-World thinks of you in these (or worse) terms. It’s going to take a bit of persuasion to change people’s minds and we aren’t going to live to see it, that’s for sure – it’s embedded in your culture.
Anyway, Happy Days! I am sure your participation in a variety of thread topics will enhance the quality of discussions. Stay away from any BNP discussions and you’ll be fine. :wink:
well Israel won’t attack them and no-one else in that region has the capability so sleep easy and don’t worry about it.
@slayer wrote:
If Alton Towers has a Muslim day, a Gay day, an OAP day, a DCFC only day, a “wear a pink carnation day”…it doesnt bloody matter….We all belong to the same wonderful country (for all its faults, of which it has many) and to single out a particular day because it is a Muslim day, whilst ignoring every other time Alton Towers is hired out is just barmy.
Wot Slayer said… !
I prefer the stage St. Eroids – D’Ope – Le Grande Ban :wink:
@hermangrrrman! wrote:
I have just been booted from 40’s room for going in as HermanGRRRman! is this fair? I won’t mention the guide involved, cos I’m too professional.
Maybe you got booted for your PREVIOUS name Hermy…just a thought :wink:
I wouldn’t want to be help responisble for saving Tony Blair PB. Sorry, but you will either have to sell this idea to another party or go it alone. I don’t want it sold to the BNP either btw cos they will send all the coloured thumbs to Estonia or somewhere for storage. Hey, if they put all the various coloured thumbs in the one cell would they be called ”Dolly Mixtures”?
Why don’t you just make up a load of shyte and pocket the £100 yourself – isn’t that what journalists do?
Well it just takes a bit of lateral thinking PB – the technology is all out there, we just have to work out how and where to use it. Would solve prison overcrowding too. I would imagine you could get a couple of hundred thumbs to each cell.
Is Bassingbourne55 called James too?
Don’t you hate it when product-placement invades the serious posts. Whatever happened to subliminal advertising?
