Seems the person(s) behind Library Planet were none too pleased about my previous post. They’ve chosen to talk about it on their site rather than comment directly, probably because they thought that might be rude. Just like to say right out, when I type anything ‘controversial’ I’m not doing this to be controversial, nor am I doing this because I want to get a rise out of someone, just merely getting things off my mind.

I’m not writing this blog for anyone but myself. As I state in my about page, this is my therapy. To be honest with you I’ve not been very vocal about my political views, and kept it very clean, but sometimes I really can’t keep it in. So in direct response to his request for me to revise what I wrote, I decline.

However I will clarify my point of view and maybe include some facts for him to better appreciate how I see things. I’m not meaning this as an attack on him; I’ll hopefully be able to structure my response so that in future when I get others wondering about ‘where I’m coming from politically and socially’, I can point them back to this post here. Long post ahead, heavy on opinions, so if you’re not interested, please divert your attention any one of these websites found on the links page ^_^.

To begin, I’ll say categorically right from the start that I DO NOT HATE AMERICANS. I’ve got several close American friends, and I converse with Americans all the time, and they have always been fun and courteous with me. I made this extremely clear that my wrath is directed against the American GOVERNMENT.

Now ‘they’ve’ said that I should check the facts. Hmmm, lets have a look at my post and see what I was misinformed about. Absolutely everything I wrote in that post was a personal opinion. The only ‘fact’ that I stated was that this story is about Alia who tried to protect her culture and history, presented in the written form of books.

‘How Propaganda Breeds Hate’. Is he saying that this woman is lying? Is her story a complete falsification, and therefore propaganda against the American Government? I don’t know because the links he put up lead me to stories about ancient artifacts and how the actual reports about their loss was grossly exaggerated.

He has taken my post as me attacking the American Government for the loss of ancient artifacts, and by extension culture and history. Interesting. A people’s culture my friend is a lot more than just their history, or historical artifacts (you think I’m happy about the British Library ‘owning’ the plethora of artifacts from Greece, Egypt, China and beyond? the answer is no, but that not the only culture and history I was talking about). It’s their manner to one another, it’s their morals and it’s their way of life. Iraq to the American Government is NOTHING but one BIG UNTAPPED OIL RIG.

With the US going into Iraq and INVADING a sovereign country for FALSE reasons, not only makes me upset, it infuriates me. My loathing of the American Government isn’t something new. In fact it dates till when I can first remember. I know a thing or two about what war can do to a country. In case you forget or were uniformed I’m Lebanese.

Now how do I know it was an INVASION for FALSE reasons, hell man, here’s something of interest:

BBC-News-January 12th, 2005

US gives up search for Iraq WMD

Intelligence officials have confirmed the US has stopped searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

They say the chief US investigator, Charles Duelfer, is not planning to return to the country. Mr Duelfer reported last year that Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons at the time of the US-led invasion nearly two years ago.

The existence of WMD had been the stated reason in Washington and London for going to war with Iraq."

The word BASTARDS comes to mind. However I’m in no position to do anything about it, which is why I write about it, this is my therapy, otherwise I’d explode. You might ask well why the fuck do you care? Simple, I care about people. I think we should be more civil to one another. The American Government is anything but civil to the world. In the past 60 years since the US has dabbled in Foreign Policy, it’s made a complete mess of things, and honestly the more you read about these things, the more you’re in utter disbelief that they continue to get away with things.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think there are many (if any governments) that you can be proud of. That’s the nature of politics, and Governments have to make tough decisions on a daily basis. However the American Government, which is also the most powerful, makes all the kinds of decisions that keep hurting people. Are making decisions, without really caring for the regards of others but their own, and the reason they can get away with it, is because they’re the most powerful. I’m surprised this didn’t make more headlines. It didn’t around here.

Final note, if anyone has an opinion that they want to share but don’t want because they think I’ll take offense, please don’t. I like a good discussion, when both sides are open minded to other ideas, that is why I have the comments turned on after all. (Oh yeah your trackback didn’t work for some reason).