Are we becoming the bullies of the world?

[kayell]

A U.S. military policeman pushes an Iraqi man during a demonstration July 27, 2003 in Kerbala, 60 miles south of Baghdad. U.S. troops fired in the air in an effort to disperse the stone-throwing crowd that was angered by the death of a local man a day earlier during what they said was an incident with troops near the city's Imam Hussein shrine. (Faleh Kheiber/Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030727/161/4t0co.html&e=3

Is this what the repuke culture has done to us?

[trof]

1. The more the truth comes out

about things "we've" done in the past I think we have been for a long time.
:-(

[phillybri]

2. What do you mean, "becoming"

Like Bill Hicks said: "We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane."

He said that in 1992. It's still true...

[bunnyhop]

3. America has always been the bully of the world

But bush has taken us beyond that. We're now the leading terrorist nation.

[Spazito]

4. Four US soldiers charged with abusing POW's - CBC

Here is an article I found while looking for BBV items - I am posting it NOT to slam the troops but to show how much it is disintegrating in Iraq, very sad.

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/07/26/soldiers_abuse030726

[rock]

5. We are become

[PunkinPi]

6. In short, yes to both of your questions.

All you have to do is listen to *'s speech - there is nothing "compassionate" in his words or tone OR read what the neocons
are up to at the pnac. http://www.newamericancentury.org/

One of my favorite quotes, "With great power, comes great responsibility." (It's from Spiderman - the movie) I think * & friends could learn a lot from understanding that simple phrase, but alas they would take it to mean something entirely different.

[LiberalLibra]

7. There is NO BECOMINGING about it, we are the bullies of the world......

....and the rest of the world knows it too. They are just waiting for the chance to take up down a peg or two.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

8. Becoming???? Where have you been for the last 50 years?

This sort of thing is standard operating procedure for US occupation forces (whether "invited" or not).

[mourningdove92]

9. Excerpt from "Some Dare Call it Treason", a Buzz Flash article

In the end the Bush Cartel is banking on making the kind of impression
on the world that a thug makes with a baseball bat on a car.
It's all about image and firepower. It's how the playground bully
establishes himself. Pick the weakest guy in the school -- the one
nobody likes much anyway -- and beat the living daylights out of him.
Keep all the kids nervous and on edge. Let them think that you are a
little bit mad and might just beat up on them for the fun of it. Tell
them that you will protect them from the gang that lives in the next
neighborhood in return for their loyalty. Make an example of anyone who
challenges your leadership by denouncing them and bloodying them up.
Establish a system of stool pigeons. Rummage through lockers, at your
will, for any signs of betrayal. Issue warnings from time-to-time about
how you have information that the other gang has plans to rape your
mothers and sisters, and lay waste to your homes -- and that is why you
need to trust in the playground bully from your school, because he will
protect your mothers and sisters from the gang that few have ever
actually encountered.