Grigory Toadfoot

Only this year did knives get banned at our school. Yes, I am in a small rural school. Our class has about 25 people Sir Toadfoot

LOL!

I believe the US is the best country on this earth, just my own humble opinion, though. Hey, Im gonna defend my country, and Im a conservative, so I'll probably never agree with any libral euorpean...... So, your right, probably pointless to argue. You did make some somewhat convincing points. However, If somebody said your country was terrible and wrong in every single thing they do, then you probably would say that they are the ones in the wrong as well. Sir Toadfoot

Thank you for endorsing the stereotype of the uninformed american. Some examples of what you say doesn't happen: - Christians Right recent anti dutch campaigns because of euthanasia. - UN Bashing and the rather childish Boo'ing at the Republican National Convention. - "Old Europe" bashing by Republican officials at the Republican National Convention. - Europe being called "Cowards" when they didn't swallow the WMD evidence head line and sinker. - Constant US criticisme of the dutch drug policy even when statistics prove it works better at prevention then the US "War on drugs" system. - US Invasion laws of the Netherlands should a US serviceman ever be brought before the Internation War Crimes Court. (Having trouble with teh quotes, lol.) These seven things that you have listed are refering to politicians. I was talking about he common people of our country. You don't see people having rallies in the US waiving around posters saying things like "Insert foriegn leader heer Is a Nazi and the number one terrorist" Sir Toadfoot

I was never moaning, I couldn't care less what the world thinks of us, honestly. The only way the world would stop hating us would be if we ceased to exist. I don't know why that is, but it is becoming more and more the truth. Mabey if we threw out all of our government officials and replaced them with librals......Ones that don't represent the majority of our country, then that might make a difference. But I doubt it.

I have never understood why so many europeans have such staunchly biased opinions about the US and Its politics. You don't see people in the US lambasting every policy of the EU ect.... Sir Toadfoot

Kerry did not deserve to be elected for many reasons. He completly disowned his own countrymen by lambasting our troops that were still in Vietnam. He also does not keep his ground on any issues. He does not stand firm. Now, That being said, Mr Bush was not really any better. He went awol from his duties in the Air National Guard, which he was in in the first place just to get out of going to vietnam. He is fiercely loyal, and although that is usually a good thing, he does not know when to give up on people he should. Sir Toadfoot