Concerned American writes, "Everything that happens is the fault of the US. People are dying, our people are dying and all that I read is that it is all out fault."

Sir, if the USA illegally interferes in the affairs of foreign nations, bombs them and kills innocent civilians on the basis of fabrications that were deliberately concocted at the highest level of your government, then it IS the fault of the USA if your people are dying.

Why don't you ask these questions of your president or your vice-president? Ask them why they unilaterally attacked and completely destroyed a once-prosperous nation that was absolutely no threat to the USA. Ask them why US troops are still in Iraq 5 years later, when it is obvious that most Iraqis want them out.

Ask your administration why they are now fabricating a pretext to attack Iran, when there is not a shred of proof about a nuclear weapons program. Ask Bush and Cheney how on earth can even a nuclear-armed Iran threaten the continental USA from the other side of the planet.

That should answer your questions about why it's always "your" fault (the USA's), simply because the USA will not mind its own business, which is confined to the borders of your country. What happens in Iraq, Iran, North Korea or any other nation is the business of those nations, not the business of the USA.

If you would like to see the USA not blamed for creating such misery in the world, tell your administration to just stop interfering in the affairs of sovereign nations, that's all. But don't whine about why the Americans get blamed for debacles such as Iraq, because the Americans caused them.

Why should Iran give up all nuclear processing (never proven to be for bombs) while Israel is allowed to keep their never-admitted-to (except by accident), never inspected arsenal of ready-to-deploy, deliverable nuclear bombs? What about Pakistan, whose nuclear weapons could become Taliban property overnight (US says no problem with nukes in Pakistan, India, Israel). Why not a nuclear-free Middle East? Because Bush would rather demonize Iran.

Hey , can I push the big red button and end the world as we know it ? Huh , huh, can I ? ( Big toothy smile ) .

ridiculous. all of you. have any of you actually spoken to a soldier than has been to iraq for at least a year? do you know what the first thing they say is? DONT WATCH THE NEWS. information is skewed. i was speaking with a US marine that was stationed in iraw. He said the innocent civilians were so thankful for their arrival that they were practically kissing their feet with thank-yous for freeing them from their dictator. Now where else will you hear that?

G8 meeting, Bush 28% approval. God help us.

Most of you people are either not from the U.S or im reading the biggest bunch of liberal propaganda ever..remember that Iran has chanted "death to America" every friday after prayers since 1979..thanks Carter! It has stated Isreal should be "wiped off the map"..and we need to let Iran have a nuke? Only if you want to speed up the end of the world..What happens at gitmo stays at gitmo.

JK,
re: suicide bombings - "NONE" ??????
Are you referring to Operation Desert Storm, or Op. Iraqi Freedom? In case you where unaware of historical events, (a major faux pas when spouting off as you did,) we were attacked numerous times prior to 'Freedom.' But I'm sure you will find a way to blame Bush for those too.

You Righties and your conservative regurgitation culled straight from Rush and Coulter need to stop and breathe for a moment and ask yourself why we haven't won a fight against backward people we (I am an American) besieged for ten years. They don't "hate us for our freedom". They hate us for imposing our military will on them, because we abandoned the Afghanis after the Russians left, for forcing the Shah on them, because we gave Saddam poison gas, because we gave Turkey attack helicopters, because we let genocides go on and on in the name of "stability". Come on. We won't "win" this for the same reasons the British couldn't win agaist us. Those people fighting us in Irag, wherever they originated, are convinced what they are doing is correct and just. As stated above, we must win hearts and minds or its all a waste. Actually a waste of about $88 million dollars per soldier, so far. Come one Righties! Where's your fiscal conservatism? Your social conservatism? Seriously, how does this war advance your agenda? Because all I see is secret wire-tapping, Party purges, loyalty hiring, stolen elections. Hmm, sounds rather Soviet doesn't it?

You folks that wonder why Iranians chant "Death To America" all the time, obviously do not understand what the USA has done to the Iranians.

Firstly, go to Google and look up Operation Ajax. Back in 1953, Mohammed Mossadegh was the Iranian president and decided to nationalise Iran's oil, because up to that time, the USA and Britain had been pillaging Iran's oil resources and the Iranian people were getting almost nothing for it. The USA and Britain engineered a coup that deposed Mossadegh and installed Shah Reza Pahlavi, who stayed in power for 30 years or so by virtue of US backing and his SAVAK secret police that terrorised and brutalised ordinary Iranians even worse than the Nazi Gestapo did to Germans.

The Iranians have very long memories and will not forget why they suffered for so long. They know who was behind their misery - the USA and Britain.

As for the reason why the USA is trying its best to provoke Iran and generate a pretext to attack that nation, just Google an article called "The Iranian Oil Bourse" by Professor Krassimir Petrov. It's not the nukes, it's not the oil, it's the worthless US dollar that is at the bottom of the Iraq war and the impending US attack on Iran.

Until you read that article, you will be deluding yourself about the real reasons for the problems in the Middle East and the involvement of the USA there. Apart from the grab for oil by the USA, it's the US petrodollar hegemony that is under threat and with it, American military and economic power. Once the rest of the world realises the enormous scam it has laboured under with the worthless US dollar and ditches it for the Euro, the USA will be destroyed as a world power. The White House and the Pentagon cannot allow this to happen and that is why Saddam Hussein was deposed and executed and that is why Iran is the next target.

Read Petrov's article and weep, because that will explain what the US administration is really up to. Until you do, you will remain blind and ignorant to the machinations and scheming of the US government.

All the left wing invective in the world won't change the facts. Vietnam was not lost by the military. The Tet offensive was a decided victory for the U.S. The Viet Cong were being decimated by the tactics that the military had developed over the years. It was only when the diplomats threw away all that and turned it over to the South Vietnamese that Vietnam was 'lost'. The South Vietnamese then proceeded to keep the torch burning for two more years, until a left-wing Democratic Congress cut off funding to an ally in a time of war. A most foul and despicable act as ever was.

The Iraq war is a legal response to the provocations of Saddam Hussein. It is in fact a continuation of the first Iraq war and there is nothing left-wing freakazoids can do about it. You can shout till you are blue in the face. The United States did nothing illegal or unethical in prosecuting the Iraq war. As for the United States selling weapons there is nothing unethical about selling weapons to allies. It is a tightrope act and there are downsides to it, especially when the allies turn out to be unreliable. There are times when the unpalatable is done to forestall what is worse.

Anyone who believes that the United States went into Iraq because of oil is a major head case. While oil has been a factor in Middle East politics it was not the reason for going after Hussein. Get over it.

Wow, it seems like the US did not actually loose the Vietnam War - but sure, how could it be lost with both Rambo AND John Wayne on our side.

Anyway if the US did not loose in Vietnam why have the governments since then tried som much 'spin' to make the truth go away.

The hearts and minds of the Iraqis is lost - if anyone could remedy that it would be great - but i think Iraq is lost and now the concern must be to get the US soldiers out - as many alive as possible.

Ziggy, are you really sure that Krassimir Petrov's assertions are true? For example, if you search in Google for "Strange ideas about the Iranian oil bourse" then you will find at least one article that poses some counter assertions to Petrov's claims.

Simply amazing, the kind of passionate discussion only a handful of grenades can set off. Oh the Proliferation thing... have you noticed that since we've neutered ourselves by suing our own weapons industry into the ground, we carry small arms made in Belgium, Italy and Germany? We go where we're sent, those of us who swear oaths to protect some old paper which no one seems to respect anymore. We respect history, learn its lessons, and as much as we can, we try not to doom ourselves the way the people in our charge want to doom us. That's the American Public. Some of us joined for the Honor of being part of two million who work to defend three hundred million. The mission reads "...to deter War, and if Deterrence fails, to Win in Combat." We have been engaged in combat as a People. Our Enemy in the Mid-east isn't deterred. He's been striking at us for decades, and I really do think we've been pretty light on him all this time. He's attacked our Ships and our Embassies. He has assassinated and maimed our Servicemen and Citizens in surprise attacks long before September 11. He's declared war on us. He's not afraid to go abroad from his home to do us harm. He will behead his neighbor with a knife and post the act on the Internet. He does these things and worse in the name of God when there's not a sentence in the holy texts to warrant it. Right, Left, Tory, Whig- Whatever. Why would you not want me to help stop this Enemy? how can you not want me to keep him off our shores? We will win if you let us. Really, the major parallels I can draw between this war and the one our Ancestors fought in Vietnam is that a public with a massive attention deficit and vote-hungry politicians can lose it for us, for our armed forces cannot beaten militarily. Just politically.

To everyone with their heads in the sand:
This is not a left vs. right issue as every politician wants to make it, it is an American vs. radical individuals banded together under a banner of hatred for everything free. Radical muslims hate us because of things like this blog, our women go to the beach in swimsuits instead of burkas and every single freedom we have in USA. They dont hate us because we are in their country but because we are free and do not base everything we do off of the Koran! We will lose this war because Americans believe the crap the news and politicians tell them on a daily basis. Do some research and read about the true mindset of radical muslims and you will find they want the world to be Muslim and without freedom. Imagine your wife in a burqa, no internet, no freedom to think. America has done awesome things in Iraq and Afghanistan that never get told, i.e. little girls can go to school, honor killings (google it) are not allowed, free newspapers are in print, secret police are not terrorizing the public. Radical Muslims will kill anyone who does not believe in the purest form of Islam including other Muslims. It is no ones fault other than peoples lack of caring and willingness to take responsibility. In almost every blog someone blames someone else or country for the problems they have. The US military is an awesome thing and just think less than 2 million Americans dedicate their lives for the benefit of 300 million. It is not being beat by the insurgents as many of you think it is being beat by a PC culture who thinks that you can negotiate with terrorists. You can if you give them everything, especially your freedom. They will come here and they will kill you if we give them the opportunity by lacking the backbone to give a country the chance to learn democracy!