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Originally posted by Bingo+Aug 19 2004, 07:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Bingo @ Aug 19 2004, 07:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nfotiu@Aug 19 2004, 01:02 PM
How arrogant is it to tell someone that they should be appreciative for what we have forcibly done to you?
If all that was written in the article happened to them, then the fact that they think they are worse off living in Iraq in the state it was left for them. That kind of commentary must be tough to take for people who justify the war and all its casualties by thinking that it was done for their own good.
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I don't think it would make me blink.
Sometimes people just don't get it, and won't agree with something that many find logical because they've been conditioned to think otherwise.
This team was terrorized and tortured ... that's pretty much a fact. Now they are living in a posh olympic village in Greece competing for their country on the national stage. If they don't see that as an uptick in life that doesn't make their view right in anyway, it's just a very vivid portrait on just how ingrained an anti-West bias has become in their culture.
My wife's friend is engaged to a nice Romanian fellow. He opposes the Iraq war and we had a civil conversation about it. I asked "isn't it better to get rid of a dictator that is terrorizing and murdering you're own people, regardless of how he's removed" He said that he and his family would rather face a lifetime under the will of Ceaucescu then be liberated by Americans.
It's how he was brought up. [/b][/quote]
It could just be that the fact he can play on a soccer team without fear pales in comparison to what he, his family and his friends have to live with day to day. Is it really fair for you to tell them they should be happy with how things are just because he gets to enjoy life for a few weeks. He shared some specific and personal reasons on why he is against what America did. Who's opinion is based on what they are conditioned to think? Someone who lives it every day, or someone watching from far away who thinks they know their life is better? If the people don't see that they are better off, are they really better off? The war America started with his country is probably responsible for more Iraqi deaths than Saddam was in his entire reign of power. Yet you want to tell the soccer player that his country is absolutely better off now? It is this kind of thinking, and this kind of arrogance that gets the US into trouble internationally all the time.