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by alexjrgreen
Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

Re: US Bashing

I am not in denial. The unorganized torture of prisoners that initially went on was horrific. I am disgusted by my countries ineffectiveness in stopping this and am further humiliated by our efforts to sweep it under the rug. I am not a fan of waterboarding. But, as Chris Rock says, "I understand"....
by alexjrgreen
Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

Re: US Bashing

We DON'T torture people. for uncontested evidence see A Note on Sources for American Torture during the Vietnam War p581 in Torture and Democracy Darius M. Rejali Princeton University Press, 2007 ISBN 0691114226, 9780691114224 We all live in glass houses. If you read the book I referenced, you'd di...
by alexjrgreen
Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

US Bashing

A little US Bashing from European history... "Für Verrückte, Betrunkene und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika hat Gott eine besondere Vorsehung." "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) 1st Chancellor of the Second German Em...
by alexjrgreen
Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

Back on topic... The world bashes the US for the same reason many here in America bash other Americans. This sounds like a cop out but the media, who are selling advertising, will transmit that which is popular to those who listen. Here's a simple proof....When Britney Spears was going through her ...
by alexjrgreen
Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: N.A.U.
Replies: 110
Views: 37131

Actually I think it was the Poles who designed & built the first bombes (Enigma cracking computers), with GCHQ (the UK's NSA) taking the credit. Good call: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/machines.rhtm http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/bletchley-park-visitors-book.htm...
by alexjrgreen
Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: N.A.U.
Replies: 110
Views: 37131

N.A.U.

Brits for the first special purpose computers (crypto). Americans for the General purpose jobs. The first general purpose computer was the Z3 built by Konrad Zuse. It was constructed in Berlin in 1941 and bombed by the Allies in 1943. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3 http://www.computerhistory.org/t...
by alexjrgreen
Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

US Bashing

TallDave wrote:We DON'T torture people.
for uncontested evidence see

A Note on Sources for American Torture during the Vietnam War

p581 in

Torture and Democracy
Darius M. Rejali
Princeton University Press, 2007
ISBN 0691114226, 9780691114224
by alexjrgreen
Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

MSimon wrote:I think your difficulty is that you envision some kind of perfect world.
Perfect, no. Better, yes. As in Polywell...
by alexjrgreen
Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

There is a good alternative: battle field interrogations and then shoot any one not in uniform as spies using battle field drum head courts. That eliminates the years of misery problem - put the miscreants out of their misery. Must you be so final in your solutions? Many that live deserve death. An...
by alexjrgreen
Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

US Bashing

My point is that any torture the US has done is mild and very infrequent. I really, really wish you were right, but you're in denial here. Ask some searching questions and you won't like the answers any more than I do. http://www.americantorture.com/the_book.html In Egypt and Iran it is severe and ...
by alexjrgreen
Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

US Bashing

Just please don't ask us to give America the benefit of the doubt when you lie in the UN about WMDs and torture your prisoners... This is the kind of ignorant slander that makes us wonder why the hell we keep saving the rest of the world from itself. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/powell...
by alexjrgreen
Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

US Bashing

I am only shouting "You owe us" because it is true. We are owed, at the very least, the benefit of the doubt. Everybody takes casualties in war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties I know very few people in Europe who aren't gratef...
by alexjrgreen
Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: US Bashing
Replies: 244
Views: 69258

US Bashing

MSimon wrote:BTW the Euros don't know their history.
We have so much more of it to remember ;-)
by alexjrgreen
Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: N.A.U.
Replies: 110
Views: 37131

N.A.U.

English is the manufactured language. It has German and French roots. Spanish additions. A smattering of Yiddish and of course loads of other additions. German? Spanish? Where's your sense of history... ? The people who became known as the English were speaking Frisian (Germanic but definitely not ...
by alexjrgreen
Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: FOOD FIGHT Lets beat each other up , Politics is fun.
Replies: 16
Views: 9099

FOOD FIGHT Lets beat each other up , Politics is fun.

"Quand il s’agit d’argent, tout le monde est de la même religion." "When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." Letter to Mme. d'Épinay, Ferney, 26th December 1760 Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet 1694-1778) Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier Frères, Paris...