Americas double standards?

Question

On CNN yesterday President Bush stated that Sadda Hussein was a threat to national security because
1. He had sponsered terrorism
2. He had weapons of mass destruction and had used them
3. He had invaded his neighbour
In response
1. The USA has on many occasions sponsered terrorism in other countries but they call it fighting for freedom and democracy.
2. Anyone remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
3. Invaded how many countries?
Is this not the biggest example of double standards?

To those who think the US has never sponsered terrorism.
Let me give you one example.
The ira.
They received a great deal of their funding from Americans.
The leaders of their political wong Sinn Feinn regularly received invitations to The White House for parties.
Sounds like support to me.
For those of you who do not know what attrocities they commited,I suggest you Goggle "Enniskillen".
It's a town in County Fermanagh and take a good look at what these friends of America were capable of

Answer 1

bush is a shmuck.

you phrased your question incorrectly.
It should say "Bush's double standards?"

Answer 2

The Americans do not have double standards. They usually telegraph their intentions well in advance. What they say is what they do. Saying someone has WMD is not double standards. It may have turned out to be untrue, but at the time the intelligence services of both the US [CIA] and the UK [SIS] were saying this was the case. The USA has never in it's entire history ever sponsored terrorism. It has sponsored freedom fighters against despicable regimes to numerous to mention here. The USA sponsored the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan to help them get rid of the Red Army. The Mujaheddin were the Muslim Freedom Fighters who did the job aided by the CIA and American money. Good for them.

A former Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, Raymond Baxter, who died recently, aged 84, said in an earlier interview, that he had always had a very high regard for the Americans, since they were the only people who had been able to shoot him down in his Spitfire.

Answer 3

The biggest threat to Mankind is AMERICA.
They are the only nation to have used nuclear weapons on a nation with the intent to cause harm and death.
A convict must never be allowed to posess such items. For example, peadophile should never be allowed to work with small children, even if they have served their time as they have proven that they are capable of molesting children.
The same applies to America. They shouldn't be allowed to posess nukes as they have proven that they are capable of using it.
Anyway, who gave them the right to police the world.? They need to sort out there own country first. America has one of the Highest crime rates in the world.
Bush said that IRAQ had WMD. Where are they Bush? Even till today, they have no evidence that Saddam had WMD.
Is this not called terrorism?

Answer 4

Basically, yes. Double standards are everywhere, the only difference is that the Americans in most cases are slightly more justified (not that I agree with the way america handles things).
I.e. Hiroshima was selected for the bomb (along with another Japanese town) because it was a largish place with less people that a city like Tokyo. This meant for them that they could wipe out this city with little or no guilt because it wasn't that huge.

In terms of invaded countries, the only times in recent years that America has sent troops into foroign countries was to police, and not take over. The last invasion by America was a while ago.

The whole terrorism thing? Let's face it. They're all just as bad as each other.

Answer 5

Every gouvernment uses double standards to justify the unjustifiable. The US didn't invent that.

Some of the answers here could make you despair.
Some people seem not to be able to face the facts, and still repeat things that have been proven to be lies decades ago, like that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war.

I do understand, however, that people are not able to face reality because to do so would make them feel very bad about themselves and the things they did or agreed to, even when they couldn't have known better at the time.

But to deny the past is to condemn yourself to repeat it.

Answer 6

Whilst I can't stand Bush (and to the person who said something about Americans being stupid and not voting - I did vote, I do vote, and I have never voted for Bush, so how is that my fault??)

I actually think the biggest double standard is not US foreign policy, but rather European double standards.

The fact that France was in the midst of pushing through a deal with Iraq and Elf (the oil / gas company) just before the war started, and the fact that Russia was owed billions of dollars from Iraq from weapons and other sales. These countries had something to lose from a war in Iraq, but tried to pretend as though there was some moral reason and were therefore superior to the US.

The fact that the UK used to be the biggest colonist in the world, taking over countries left and right, purely for the sake of increasing their empire. Forcing their culture down the throats of people all over the world. And now they act like the US is morally reprehensible because we have gone into a couple of countries (which we have no interest in "colonising").

The same goes for the French and their colonising of other countries. Additionally, they look down on the US for capital punishment, but who invented the guillotine?

The Germans? Well they hardly are in any position to look their noses down on anyone. How many millions were killed in Nazi Germany? And only about 70 years ago.

The Italians? How about Mussolini and their own political corruption?

And how many countries in Europe would be nothing but ash and dust if US service men and women hadn't come in to help, sacrificing their lives and our resources.

I am so very tired of those double standards. How about some thanks, or at the very least, a recognition of the past mistakes and actions of the countries that are so quick to turn down their noses at America.

"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones"
and
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"

Answer 7

Yes, you are absolutely right.
Americas talked about Democracy, but they support all the military dictator all over the wolrd.
They invade many counties since long.
Even the GRAND SON OF DEMOCRACY(!) Mr. G W BUSH (jungle) became US President with a controvercial election result, can you remember?
Even the US people cant elect their President directly, though they says they are the sole authority of Democracy for themselves as wel as for other countries.
How funny double standard!!!!!!!

Answer 8

1. The US has funded islamic terrorism, and not just the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan. In the 1970s, the US gave the Shah of Iran a printing press, plates, ink and paper from the US mint so he could print his own US$100 bills. After the islamic revolution, the Iranians used the press to print money and fund their activities. US foreign policy came back to bite its own behind...as usual.
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000318.html

2. It wasn't just Japan. First, the US sold Saddam the illegal weapons; it was Donald Rumsfeld who went to Iraq in 1983 and met Saddam personally.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
And let's not forget the 50,000 (possibly as many as 100,000) residents of Fallujja who were victims of US bombings with a Weapon of Mass Destruction, white phosphorus:
http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarpix.html
http://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe.php
Or Israel's illegal nuclear weapons which are proven to exist (thanks to Mordechai Vanunu) while the IAEA has proven Iran has no intent or capability of getting them:
http://www.nogw.com/ilweapons.html

3. "When they do it, it's imperialism and colonialism. When we do it, it's national interests." (More like multinational corporate interests, since they most often benefit from US intervention.)

"I won't apologize for America. I don't care what the facts are."
- George "the Smirking Chimp" Bush, twice unelected pResident

Answer 9

hiroshima nd nagasaki were chosen to be annihilated and its people wiped from existence (literally) in the most awful way because they were the only cities not yet previously bombed. They were selected so the american administration could gauge the impact from the nuclear blast and learn from it, possibly for future reference, who knows?

The point about the nuclear bombs saving american service mens lives is bollox quite simply and just shows the cowardice and malice of the american administration at the time. Japan posed zero threat to America and were already heavily defeated and incapable of further war, so their surrender, which did not happen because of america's arrogance, was completely irrelevant.

Howvever I don't think USA has invaded Canada or Mexico YET.

Answer 10

Yes mate totally agree terrorism invading others country's killing people look i am English our country used to rule half the world how over throwing the people terrorising them fighting killing it is OK for the powerful and terrorism for the weak i am against terrorism but hate double standards and people don't forget you are the voter you have the power to stop it Dave

Answer 11

Let me think, Hiroshima, Nagasaki... Oh yea, now I remember. Those are cities in a country that attacked us with - out provocation so we would stay out of the war. Wasn't Japan governed by an emperor that wanted to take over all the little islands and countries that had more rice. Oh yes, and let's not forget the little game Jap soldiers use to play: Throw the baby up in the air and catch it with your bayonet. Wouldn't have been so bad if they just didn't do it in front of the mother.

You are probably right, we shouldn't invade "how many countries" and, we should not call it democracy or fighting for freedom. Maybe we should call it: You say you don't want your arm cut off because you got a tattoo or forgot to put your wife in her Berka this morning!

You call them double standards I call them not letting history repeat itself. Had we not droppped the bomb we would have lost over 100,000 American lives in the invasion of Japan, quadruple ( maybe more) Japanese.

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