Snarf Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Almostwas, more like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musturde Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 [quote name='KnightofChrist' date='Feb 4 2006, 01:07 AM']God bless the US. Viva La BUSH!!! The world hates us cuz we're NUMBER 1!!!!! : and they aint! [right][snapback]875441[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Yes. Our next step, bomb France and Canad[b]i[/b]a (then we'll have annihilated the evils of this world). Haha, jp to all the French, Canadians, French Canadians, Canadian French, Canadians who happen to speak French, and French who happen to speak Canadian. No but really, I think the World might hate us because we actually do some of the millions of things they accuse us of. Patriotism is nice but America's far from innocent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krostandt Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 I like French Canadians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musturde Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 [quote name='Krostandt' date='Feb 4 2006, 10:43 AM']I like French Canadians [right][snapback]875600[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I have frenz in both France and Canadia... I don't have any french canadian frenz tho.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cow of Shame Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 [quote name='Lounge Daddy' date='Feb 4 2006, 02:44 AM'] how do you get out of bed every morning? [/quote] Probably with a screech of rage like I do. It clears the sinuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Turks calling us "violent." Hello, pot? This is kettle... Sadly, there is no monolithic opinion of America in foriegn countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoEd Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Ya'all know that we, too are victims of this sort of brainwashing. When your movies are limited it is even easier to control what you see. Haven't ever been to Turkey but I cannot envision a movie house on every corner with a different set of 30 or so movies playing in each. Maybe I am wrong. We see movies all the time that encourage violence, killing, gang membership and the good guy finally joining the bad guys to give some of their own back to them. Folks under 30 are the greatest victims here and the younger the more susecptible. The movies are not indicitive of what Turks think of Americans but what the powers that be want them to think about us! A friend of mine in Turkey says American Love stories are the most popular in Turkey, just ahead of Westerns! Ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benedictaj Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Sounds like an interesting movie. Abu Ghraib was all over the news here for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks last year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironmonk Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 [quote name='PadreSantiago' date='Feb 3 2006, 04:28 PM']Feb 3, 7:47 AM (ET) By BENJAMIN HARVEY (AP) A woman stands next to a billboard featuring the new Turkish movie "Valley of the Wolves Iraq" in... Full Image ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother. They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison - where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv. "Valley of the Wolves Iraq" - set to open in Turkey on Friday - feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime NATO allies: Americans. The movie, which reportedly cost some $10 million, is the latest in a new genre of popular culture that demonizes the United States. It comes on the heels of a novel called "Metal Storm" about a war between Turkey and the U.S., which has been a best seller for months. One recent opinion poll revealed the depth of the hostility in Turkey toward Americans: 53 percent of Turks who responded to the 2005 Pew Global Attitudes survey associated Americans with the word "rude"; 70 percent with "violent"; 68 percent with "greedy"; and 57 percent with "immoral." Advance tickets are already selling out across Turkey for the film, which has dialogue in Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish and English. In addition to Turkey, the film is set to be shown in more than a dozen other countries - including the United States, Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, Russia, Egypt, Syria and Australia. The movie's American stars are Billy Zane, who plays a self-professed "peacekeeper sent by God," and Gary Busey as the Jewish-American doctor. U.S. soldiers have become hate figures in Muslim countries around the world after the unpopular war in Iraq. But here in Turkey, a personal grudge fuels the resentment. "Valley of the Wolves Iraq" opens with a true story: On July 4, 2003, in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, troops from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade raided and ransacked a Turkish special forces office, threw hoods over the heads of 11 Turkish special forces officers, and held them in custody for more than two days. The Americans said they had been looking for Iraqi insurgents and unwittingly rounded up the Turks because they were not in uniform. Still, the incident damaged Turkish-U.S. relations and hurt Turkish national pride. Turks traditionally idolize their soldiers; most enthusiastically send their sons off for mandatory military service. In the movie, one of the Turkish special forces officers commits suicide to save his honor. His farewell letter reaches Polat Alemdar, an elite Turkish intelligence officer who travels to northern Iraq with a small group of men to avenge the humiliation. There they find a rogue group of U.S. soldiers led by officer Sam William Marshall - played by Zane. In the bloodfest that ensues, the small band of Turks bonds with the people of Iraq and eventually ends American atrocities there, killing Zane and his men in the final scene. "The scenario is great," Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas told The Associated Press after the film was shown at a posh opening gala Tuesday night. "It was very successful. ... a soldier's honor must never be damaged." But Topbas and other Turks at the premiere weren't too concerned about how the movie would be perceived in the United States. "There isn't going to be a war over this," said Nefise Karatay, a Turkish model lounging on a sofa after the premiere. "Everyone knows that Americans have a good side. That's not what this is about." --- [right][snapback]874723[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Why would we care what a Muslim country thinks of us? Humliation and sleep deprivation does not equal torture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 [quote name='peacenluvbaby' date='Feb 4 2006, 11:06 AM'] BTW if there was no war...I don't think we would have this discussion. PEACE PEACE PEACE [right][snapback]875528[/snapback][/right] [/quote] [img]http://www.protestwarrior.com/nimages/the_sign.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 [quote name='musturde' date='Feb 4 2006, 12:38 PM'] Yes. Our next step, bomb France and Canad[b]i[/b]a (then we'll have annihilated the evils of this world). Haha, jp to all the French, Canadians, French Canadians, Canadian French, Canadians who happen to speak French, and French who happen to speak Canadian. No but really, I think the World might hate us because we actually do some of the millions of things they accuse us of. Patriotism is nice but America's far from innocent. [right][snapback]875594[/snapback][/right] [/quote] don't forget - we need to also hit and take over Venezuela ... we are - after all - in it for the oil... so we drum up WMD charges against them and go in and take that oil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacenluvbaby Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 [quote name='Lounge Daddy' date='Feb 5 2006, 12:34 AM']don't forget - we need to also hit and take over Venezuela ... we are - after all - in it for the oil... so we drum up WMD charges against them and go in and take that oil [right][snapback]876129[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Yeah, the Bush administration actually compared Chavez and Evo Morales to Hitler...wouldnt want Latin American people actually benefiting from their own oil reserves... we might lose all those illegal immigrants who provide a cheap source of the agricultural industry labor, not to mention domestic help, gardeners and others...who work for cheap and cant complain or lobby for higher wages because oh yeah, they're illegal and have no vote and no power because we could just ship them out. Peace out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomProddy Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 [quote name='Raphael' date='Feb 3 2006, 09:33 PM']You know, the Nazis thought we were pretty horrible, too. [right][snapback]874741[/snapback][/right] [/quote] You would be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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