Like I said, some people have legit reasons. Others are blowing steam. There are some people in the world who want to feel political and be popular. So if people around them hate America, mob mentality makes them join the rush to fit in. Some people are jealous, and other are bored. See what I mean? That's why I answered your first question by basically saying "All of the above."

But some people love America. Some people love the money, some people love the freedom. You are never going to nail it down because veryone has their own reasons.

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Freedom? Which freedom?

We are talking about a nation that still treats its former slaves like a burdon and does its absolute best to just keep them in their own hoods where they can shoot each other, pollute each other and keep each other down.

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They know... Saddam Hussein is no threat to the US. But at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel. Gen.W.Clark

Personally I really could care less at this point why other countries hate America. It seems that it's the popular thing to do. So you know what? Since other countries feel they have the right to openly proclaim their hatred for my country I will stop holding back my negative opinions when it comes to other countries.

I hate Iraq. There I finally said it. I hate that terrorist breeding sand dune of a country. I hate their fanatical religion and I hate they way the women wrap themselves in rags from head to toe.

I hate Afghanistan for the fact that they breed monsters such as Bin Laden. I hate it from boarder to boarder and everywhere in between. I hate their backward people with their fanatical beliefs.

So I guess it's okay for me to hate these places, huh? I mean after all, if other countries can scream their hatred of me and my country I guess it's only fair if I proclaim my hatred of their's just as loudly.

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You have every right to, but it's still stupid .

I think you need to understand what it's like in Iraq and Afghanistan - any of the people question fundamentalist Islam and dictatorships were exiled or killed. As a result, we have a nation consisting 100% of people who are like this. When a child is born there, they grow up seeing, literally, only one point of view. They have no access to media that isn't state controlled, and are taught to believe everything the preacher says is absolute truth.

You, however, have access to plenty of information. You've grown up in a massing of cultures and in a Constitutional Republic, where differing opinion flourish. You then, have taken a deliberately ignorant stance, whereas the people in Iraq and Afghanistan who hate all Americans have taken a stance that is ignorant because they actually know nothing else.

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"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
Jim Morrison

Sure you have the right to hate other nations. I never said you didn't have that right. I'm not a "fan" of Iraq and Afghanistan either, but I just hate the States a little bit more and with good reason.

The States are just the worse of them. The biggest terrorist is still Uncle Sam.

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They know... Saddam Hussein is no threat to the US. But at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel. Gen.W.Clark

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

You are leveling a really general attack against an entire nation. What is it that you hate about America. The basic values it was founded on, its policies, it's people, it's government? Me? I am an American citizen, so you must hate me right? I doubt that you do, but my point is that this is the kind of thing MLK Jr was talking about. This sort of generalized hatred.

What frustrates me about people from other countries with potent opinions like yours, don't realize or want to realize that there are millions of people in this country who have their own thoughts and ideas, many who might agree with you. But you seem to think that there is this oneness of opinion here. That everyone has the same idea and opinion about the world. I think that is ignorant.

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I agree.

The Iraq war, however, wasn't the right way to do that.

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"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
Jim Morrison

O I don't have real issues with Americans in general, those who share my views I reagard as comrades. However I have huge problems with the terrorism that US uses for its own interests.

I probably hear "nine eleven" a thousand times a day. The US wants the whole world to grieve for its citizens who died in those effect. If I'm not mistaken about 2500 people died in the attacks. Yet what the US doesn't tell us is that they have no problem killing people or backing up killer regimes as long as it is in their own interest.

Remember that Pinochet guy??A real psycho dictator. Well guess who backed this guy up! It was the US. Same goes for Saddam, Osama, The Sjah. Let's not forget the good people of Vietnam who died as a consequence of US terrorism. Remember the massacre US soldier started in Mai Lai? Where is THEIR monument or memorial day or annual presidential speech? When did the US grieved for THEM?

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They know... Saddam Hussein is no threat to the US. But at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel. Gen.W.Clark

I think it is mostly jealousy and/or crazyness (meaning irrational).

The main problem I have is that they see only the bad, and none of the good. Their view is not balanced...which is why I dismiss it.

Which North Koreans are you talking about? The average North Korean citizen, or the oppressive dictatorship that is in control of them?

What about the Iraqi who's child is still alive because Saddam is now gone?

And our response to it was another example; threaten us at your own risk. Once aroused, we are relentless.

We were not attacking the Iraqi People. In fact, we went out of our way to avoid harming them and have gone to great expense to help them set up a government under their own control...as opposed to what they had before.

What you imply is wrong. Harming people by accident is not the same as targeting them deliberately. Even liberals dont really believe that.

Um...who is it exactly that's trying to keep them in their own "hoods"? Could you elaborate?

I couldnt care less personally. I was actually suprised that the French didnt applaud it. Though many in the middle east did...that was predictable.

We do not target civilians. When was the last time the US supported an oppressive regime?