Global Politics

[bobcat]

Has anybody received this email? Subject is "Global Politics". If so what do you think about it. I have it copied below





1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over
twenty different countries since 1945?
2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?
3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in
Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the
most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history?
4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN
Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?
5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against Nicaragua in 1986,
and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on all states to
observe international law?
6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing
"direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan
Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?
7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile
(ABM)Treaty in December 2001?
8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification process
for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an international
conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?
9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun trade at
a small arms conference in July 2001?
10) Aside from Somalia, which is the only other country in the world to have
refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death penalty to be
applied to children?
12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban
Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?
13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?
14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987
General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism?
15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet
reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?

Answer to all 15 questions: The United States of America.

... and Howard wonders why people protest against possible war with Iraq -
it is not about supporting Saddam (no one does, well except for the USA when
they backed him into power), but opposing through peaceful protest things
like the above acts carried out by the most self-interested country in the
world.

Is any of this true? I'm not one of those people that automatically believe emails like this, but I'm just curious if anyone can clear it up for me. And I always know that there's 2 sides to the story!

Plus I figure most of the members here are from the US, and should be aware of this type of stuff
Thanks

[Bond]

Many of the facts are rather distorted and skewed.

Some of them are true though.

EDIT: After I looked over some of those 'facts' again, hardly any of that stuff is true.

[gekko]

It's a load of crap. Basically, clever wording to make the US look like an evil empire used to attract ignorant people who will actually believe it. They become emotional, and they have followers.

Feel free to research the incidents.

[Joeiss]

Originally posted by bobcat
Has anybody received this email? Subject is "Global Politics". If so what do you think about it. I have it copied below




15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet
reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?

LOL.. Which country pays for 51% of the UN's expenses?

Answer to the above question, The United States of America.

[gekko]

Originally posted by bobcat
1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over
twenty different countries since 1945?

How many countries actually have the ability to drop bombs on 20 countries? And they leave out why we were dropping bombs. America fights for peace and freedom, but they try to leave you thinking it's an evil empire.

2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?

Which country is doing the most to prevent the development and use of nuclear weapons? Funny, same answer. Notice they chose to leave out biological and chemical weapons? Is it because the US doesn't use them and wouldn't look evil?

3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in
Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the
most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history?

Oh please. There was a car bomb in Beruit, they blamed Israel and their "allies." It went off near a fundamentalist, which is where you get assasination attempt. As for most lethal bombing, that's a load of crap. I guess they forgot the car bombing in October 1983 which killed 241 US troops. Oh ya, don't include that, because America is evil, and is always attacking poor innocent countries

4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN
Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?

I don't know what ever happened from this, but supposedly Libya wanted 9 Americans arrested for a bombing there, supposedly ordered by former President Regan. But they did leave out the supposed bombing by the Americans was in response to Libya bombing a German disco.

7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile
(ABM)Treaty in December 2001?

Which country? Did they mention there are only 2 involved with it? US and Russia signed it back in 1972. US got out because it prevented us from defending our country from ballistic missle attacks.

Get where I'm going with this?

EDIT: Had the response to the quote, but no quote

[bobcat]

Yeh I thought it was one of those types of emails with "clever wording". I could tell by the way it was written.

I would like to research this type of stuff though as history ain't my strongest subject.

[Professor S]

Looks like something Michael Moorer would write. He's excellent at skewing facts to support his own biases as well.

[bobcat]

Originally posted by The Strangler
Looks like something Michael Moorer would write. He's excellent at skewing facts to support his own biases as well.

Who's Michael Moorer?

[Professor S]

He's a "muck raker" documentary film maker who has made Bowling to Columbine and Roger and Me.

Basically he pretends to be a journalist while abusing facts and only presenting information that will better support his extreme liberal positions. Snd when I say extreme, I mean other liberals call him a "Pinko Commie"

[Xantar]

Michael Moore is an extremist? Liberals call him a pinko commie?

Strangler, you obviously haven't spent enough time around Swarthmore. If his films are anything to go by, Michael Moore would by pointing at Swarthmore students and calling us pinko commies. At least Moore is a member of the NRA.

[The Germanator]

Roger and Me and Bowling for Columbine were great movies...he makes an interesting film, yep.

[Professor S]

Interesting? Yes.

Accurate and even handed? Hardly.

[Joeiss]

I like the little cartoon about America's History that he made... quite the funny.

[Rndm_Perfection]

Originally posted by Joeiss
I like the little cartoon about America's History that he made... quite the funny.

Hmm, funny... but that's about all.

[Mushlafa]

Originally posted by gekko




Which country is doing the most to prevent the development and use of nuclear weapons? Funny, same answer. Notice they chose to leave out biological and chemical weapons? Is it because the US doesn't use them and wouldn't look evil?

[/b]

Excuse me for not noin much bout the US.. but doesnt the US have something like 3000 nukes? yet they're afraid that like iraq might have a few but its ok for them to have 3000? I dont get that... they're goin after a bunch of countries with nukes and are like.. ok.. get rid of your nukes or risk war..

Lo
sorry if im way off tho