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Interesting as I'd never really thought of it like that. Kind of narrow minded and stupid of me, but...you know, it makes a certain amount of sense. Not that it justifies their actions but it certainly brings up a point I'm sure few americans consider.

Yes, this is thread is for discussing the ideas behind this picture. No, it's not for stupid conspiracy theories, friend14 stay away.

EDIT: Just so I can clarify, I realized this upon reading the thread title again that a lot of massassians may misunderstand, but the thread title is indeed a bit of a joke wherein the post retains a bit of truth.

That looks about right.

Don't you think that's a bit of an exaggeration? Like the kind of exaggeration that invalidates the point?

To an extent it's exaggeration, but I have little doubt that our Bush Sr. and first-term Clinton escapades had an effect on the repercussions we saw then.

I must say I've never really had problems understanding why 9/11 happened. Of course that doesn't mean I think it was justified. But the US definitely had it coming. The problem is that US foreign policies are perceived totally different if you're living in the Middle East, or anywhere outside the US, for that matter. I think a lot of Americans are totally unaware of this. I clearly remember discussing US politics in college, in the year preceding 9/11, and how a majority of the students in my year felt something really bad was going to happen to the US sometime soon.

keep in mind.. thats a COMIC

A political comic--which tend to be a joke, but reflect real life situations/problems. They were an important tool in propaganda in early wars and now are one of the few true forms of criticism available to the media it seems, sadly enough.

Haha. Well it definitely didn't take a clairvoyant to figure it out, although no one could have fathomed what would happen exactly. Seriously though, people were already upset during the last years of Clinton's administration. When 9/11 happened, the general feeling for a lot of people was something like 'It finally happened' (Not in a sense that people were relieved, but there was a lot of expectation that *something* would happen at some point, considering the state of politics back then.)

I think clinton may have forestalled it, though who knows for sure. I liked his foreign policies for the most part, but the world was pushing him to search for "weapons of mass destruction" when I found it fairly obvious he didn't want to intrude on iraqi privacy. I found it odd that they gave him such a runaround though.

i watched a documentary on water. they profiled a few countries and how they cope with little to no fresh water.
there was an old man in bolivia, he was sitting with his grand daughter. they were looking out across the desert at a big snow capped mountian. she asked why they couldn't get water from the snow. he explained to her that it was too far away. he also explained to her that one day soon the americans would buy the mountain, scoop up the snow, and ship it to america leaving bolivia with even less fresh water than they have.
it's america's presence in the world, they're absolute greed without consideration for anyone else on earth. i think that this is a bigger problem than the image posted above. people hate america around the world because they rape a country and leave the raped to die so that a very few can become very rich. there are hundreds of examples of this.
and here's this old man passing on his hate to the next generations so that they will have that hate.

the reason so many of them want to move to america is because the living conditions there are better than where they are after america raped them and left them to die.

Why do you hate Amurrica, yoshi?

Damn 'merican hatin' dinosaurs

CAUSE I LOVE TERRISTS

That can't be a political cartoon, it is funny

My main issue is that it implies that america was happily destroying the rest of the world, and the depiction of the murder of 3000 innocent people as a tiny puff of smoke.

I know it's a comic and it's not supposed to be taken literally, but that doesn't mean I have to like it, either.

Edit: also the buildings are inconsistent.

Lies, the World Trade Centre could fire rockets and jet planes out the top. it was really cool. :-(

I don't think it represents the rest of the world, just Iraq. If you remember we ****ing carpet-bombed the **** out of them in the early 90s. So I think it's pretty accurate (especially if you consider how many Iraqis have been killed since the start of the war as opposed to the amount of Americans killed since and including 9/11)

The bombings on Iraq actually intensified again during Clinton's last year. They must have put a lot of pressure on Bill. Every time Iraq didn't live up to some resolution, or violated the embargo, they would bomb.

But yeah, Clinton was great in international affairs, especially compared to t3h monkey.

Damn, I thought this thread was gonna be about Jews

Bill Clinton doesn't care about black people.

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I heard on digg that this actually refers to Israel despite the two towers. Then again, digg is full of retards.

The situation's very complicated, and I don't think the president is the only one to blame, but I am severely disappointed in the clinton administration for Rwanda and Somalia.

Wow that old man is delusional. See these people raise their children to hate America. When they are older, and breath in more B/S that is shoved down there throats, they turn around and suicide bomb us. Cowards is what it is.

I find that comic not funny at all. Really what is so funny about it..?

Everything on Digg refers to Israel. No exceptions.