Originally Posted By Mr X Never saw nor heard about this before, has anyone here? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...X-LN9-L0</a> I'd have rather put this in Community, but I suppose it would've been moved here anyway.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 That is cool, X. Gotta love those brits! Even if they do serve warm beer.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer It's amazing how much genuine affection and good will toward the USA from the rest of the world the previous administration squandered, isn't it?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo You are right tom (and great to see you, it seems like its been a while). There was a huge amount of good will here in Europe, and Bush urinated all over it. Being at Disneyland Paris, with people from all over Europe and different languages, the outpooring of support was amazing. I could go insane thinking, what if someone else had been in the Whitehouse at the time instead of a yahoo.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer It has been a while. I saw Mr. X is getting kind of uppity so I came here to put him in his place but I keep agreeing with him. I'm glad he's gotten smarter over the years. Morning, Ralph.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***There was a huge amount of good will here in Europe, and Bush urinated all over it.*** Japan too. Those horrible couple of weeks afterwards, the only silver lining was the global camaraderie over what they did. Japanese people were walking up to us on the street saying "I'm sorry for what happened to your country". We couldn't pay for a drink in a bar. Someone would take out their wallets or the bartender would give it to you for free (which was nice, since it was a good time to be smashed and non thinking too much). Anyway...*sigh*
Originally Posted By TomSawyer It's disgusting how they triangulated that good will into the Iraq invasion.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "It's disgusting how they triangulated that good will into the Iraq invasion." I had to do a double take when I saw your name. Nice to see you posting. I hope all is well. It's amazing how many military people I encounter either professionally or socially who feel the same way. The Seals I know in particular are very bitter towards Bush. They feel they were sacrificed like pawns, that we lost a lot of good men and women, all because of Bush/Cheney's whims. Like most people, they're all for whatever it takes as it relates to Afghanistan, as that's where the real enemy lies, but to have parlayed that into Iraq, well...... there aren't the right words to described the loathing.
Originally Posted By ecdc Great to see you, Tom! Hope all is well and hope you'll stick around. Always great to hear your perspective.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Gasp! It's Tom Sawyer! As I live and breathe! Look everyone, it's Tom Sawyer! Tom Sawyer is here! How have you been? How is the family???
