Just saw this story and wondered what your view is on it. This is the first I 've heard of it, have you seen any of this?

What what what!!
Stabbed to death?? Oh hello Fox News....
Exhaustion yes, suffocation maybe, but stabbed??

And way to go for mixing things. The food riots have nothing to do with oil prices. They are not related. Things are different here than in the US.

I will further explain but later, I have something to do on my hands now.

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Stabbed to death?? Oh hello Fox News....

I believe what Lucky meant here was that Fox News is like the Enquirer. My Pakistani friend is the same. They only believe a story if its posted on the internet by a "credible" source.

BTW, he still thinks the Mosad flew those planes into the WTC

Saudi Arabia, for instance, has committed to give zero dollars for 2008, while the United Arab Emirates has pledged just $50,000 — an amount several times less than impoverished nations like Bangladesh.

The United States leads all donors at more than a $1 billion.

Egypt, the world's largest importer of wheat, heavily subsidizes the sale of flour. Government flour sells for about $3 per 100 pounds. On the black market, however, that same bag can fetch $45.

Unlike other Arab nations awash in petrodollars, almost half of Egypt’s population gets by on less than $2 a day — and for an estimated 30 million people, bread means everything.

For now, the Army has been called out — to bake and distribute the bread.


Funny thing Lucky the ones you hate the most are the ones that help you the most.

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

You're just paying Mubarak's payroll that's all.
The problem with some Americans is that they have this belief that they are the moral, good nation. When this is far from reality. There is no morality or kind heartedness in politics. It's all about interests.

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Originally posted by LuckyBreak:
You're just paying Mubarak's payroll that's all.
The problem with some Americans is that they have this belief that they are the moral, good nation. When this is far from reality. There is no morality or kind heartedness in politics. It's all about interests.

You're right. I wish the US didn't give a f-ing nickel to your country.

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Originally posted by LuckyBreak:
You're just paying Mubarak's payroll that's all.
The problem with some Americans is that they have this belief that they are the moral, good nation. When this is far from reality. There is no morality or kind heartedness in politics. It's all about interests.

I don't see your self-interest loving Arab neighbors donating money and food.

I suppose the UN is dumping all that food right in Mubarak's backyard, right?

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Originally posted by KKL:

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Originally posted by LuckyBreak:
You're just paying Mubarak's payroll that's all.
The problem with some Americans is that they have this belief that they are the moral, good nation. When this is far from reality. There is no morality or kind heartedness in politics. It's all about interests.

You're right. I wish the US didn't give a f-ing nickel to your country.

Me too.

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Originally posted by LuckyBreak:
You're just paying Mubarak's payroll that's all.
The problem with some Americans is that they have this belief that they are the moral, good nation. When this is far from reality. There is no morality or kind heartedness in politics. It's all about interests.

You're welcome

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There is no morality or kind heartedness in politics. It's all about interests.

And who would know that better than you.
Just a bunch of terrorists hiding out in the desert.

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Originally posted by SHEEPSHEAD BAY:
And who would know that better than you.
Just a bunch of terrorists hiding out in the desert.

\runs for a good hiding place to watch the bloodbath....

ROTFLMFAO!

/sigh

Ok, so as you can see from my post count, I really don’t do allot of talking on this forum. In fact, I only joined CA in April. That being said, I can not understand for the life of me why so many people insist on spreading hatred.

I just got done reading through 1 topic that was directed at Lucky, and asked his opinion regarding a shooting...now this one which once again has taken aim at him based purely upon his geographic location. Enough is enough already!

Yes I love my country, yes I served 9 years in the army, and yes I get all hot and bothered when false information is passed regarding the state of my country. All that aside, I can’t help but get pissed the F* off by intolerance and those wanting to blindly control, mandate or dictate how others should feel, act or think.

At this point in time, I would challenge anyone to drop there current feelings regarding there nations foreign agenda, and look at how it is effecting the rest of the globe. And while the US in this case has provided a lot of good and benefited a lot of nations with aid, we need to drop this role of “global police”. Looking back on it, how many times have we as a nation taken it upon ourselves to establish a ground force within a sovereign nation, with the purpose of “preventing”? Has it ever occurred that our actions can be viewed by that nation in a less then friendly way? Heck….we are still invading there country. We are still establishing curfews, check points, detainment centers and engaging in the interrogation of the local inhabitants. We can go home and sleep easy that night knowing that we are providing a safer world, however, if another country did that within the US, we would NOT stand for it, so why should we expect the rest of the world to stand by our actions.

Iraq in my opinion is the same, yet slightly different. We went in under false pretences with no clear plan as to the future of the nation. Sure, we told them “Congrats! You can now reform into a democracy. Never again will you be trapped under the boot of a tyrant!”, but in reality it was nothing more then a pipe dream to expect a turbulent nation to conform with such ease. And of course the citizens of America loved it, because we for the most part bit into this dream. Years later and thousands dead, we are one of the most despised nations. More then anything I feel, it is because we have to stick our nose into every nations problem, and try to “better” them….whether they like it or not.

I just find it unfortunate, that as a nation we have tried several times to promote a better way of living, and ultimately worsened it for many. But I do love my country; I only wish we practiced more restraint when handling foreign matters that required ground troops.

P.S.
Bush is an idiot, but I am still a republican
Clinton sent more ground forces around the globe in policing actions then any other president in history.
We need to finish what we have started in Iraq, or face the consequences in later years and future generations.

Squirrel, well said, especially about the scenario of another country invading us.

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Unlike other Arab nations awash in petrodollars, almost half of Egypt’s population gets by on less than $2 a day — and for an estimated 30 million people, bread means everything.

For now, the Army has been called out — to bake and distribute the bread.

Sheep, you need to be careful when you're copying and pasting word for word from another web site without attributing it.

Some people who don't know you might suspect you wanted them to think it was an original thought.

Of course, anyone who has been here for more than a week would know that the writing is clearly not in Sheephead's style, as it employs the correct usage of punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure.

I suppose my instincts were correct. Presley and Sheep really DO run around quoting faux news...

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Originally posted by Squirrel502:
I can not understand for the life of me why so many people insist on spreading hatred.

I just got done reading through 1 topic that was directed at Lucky, and asked his opinion regarding a shooting...now this one which once again has taken aim at him based purely upon his geographic location. Enough is enough already!

I can see how being new might give you the impression of some of us picking on LB. If you search LB's posts I'm sure you'll find that he is extremely opinionated about our nation. The Middle East threads you might see aimed for him, are only aimed because most of us know the threads and posts he makes about the US.
I rarely ever agree with his extremely liberal views, but I love reading through the debates with him in it. He's a worthy debator, and has some very educated arguments. I've never once seen him take these kinds of threads as a victim, but an opportunity to again share his politcal interests and philosophies. Just as we do when he decides to post something that smears the US, troops, and/or our President.
To say that we're spreading "hate" is to harsh a word.

Well said Squirrel. That's what I have always tried to get through on this forum but in vein; it's all a matter of perspective:what you see as good and peace-promoting could simply conflict with someone else's interest and expectations.

I said it a million times before and I will say it again: in politics, there is no "good" and "bad". There is no "axis of evil" and "free world"...what there is is interests and only interests. When the interests conflict that's when the trouble starts.

As my favorite quote source, FZ, said in 1977 :

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."