You obviously aren't from the US...
I am the smartest patriot- corrections to your analisys of the United States of America.
1) we test bombs in bombing ranges of our middle eastern allies, we're not droping them at random on civilans.
2)If you knew anything about the US military is that we have cut defense spending constantly since the end of the Cold War. Last month President Bush said he was astonished by the number of nuclear weapons in are arsenal and would speed up the scaling back of these weapons, faster than it is allready being done.
3)The United Nations has voted us out of the Human Rights Council, and disagreed on actions before. The UN isn't our bitch. If anything I praised the UN in a thread a few days ago, look it up.
NATO was founded by the US to protect our allies from attack by other countries. The Feb. bombing of Iraqi AA sites wasn't a NATO mission, but that of the US and UK.
4)Does the US government have corruption? Yes. Is the US a perfect system of governemnt? No. But there is less corruption in the United States than there is in the Russian Federation, and many of the former Soviet states. We aren't the perfect system of government, and that isn't the point. The day any government is viewed by the people to be perfect (I never said it was at any point) is the day we should all be very frightened, because that means the public has completely capitualted to its government.
5)You wanna know what a bad government is? A governemnt that has a one-couple one-child birth policy. Like the PRC. The Peoples Republic of China will only allow one couple one child because of overcrowding. If a second child is born, without permission from the state the child is killed like this. When the baby's head first pokes out of the mother's womb, a doctor takes a syringe of formaldihide, sticks it into the baby's soft spot of the head and injects the solution into the brain. If that isn't the ultimate act of cruiltiy I don't know what is.
6)We don't sponsor terrorist to run around in rental cars, and blow up embassies, or tear holes in the sides of ships. We have never used chemical, or biological weapons on our on civilians, a la Sadam Hussein.
7)For the mistakes of putting German, Japanesses, and Italians in interment camps during WWII, the US government shelled out over a BILLION dollars in reperations to those who we punished.
I find it quite interesting how other foreign countries will take shots at us when we do something just slightly distastefull. But when there is a crisis, when another country needs help with a plague, or needs money to keep vital health care programs going, we the United States of America, and its tax payers have payed well over a trillion dollars in foreign aid since the end of the Second World War. Even when we were five trillion dollars in debt, we still shelled out cash to coutnries that have needed it.
The US has lead the way in vaccinating the world from Smallpox, and is nearly completing to erradicate Polio from the world.
The ultimate act of unshelfishness was, even before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt put American ships in the Atlantic to commit unrestricted, covert warefare on German U-boats to help our friend Britian.
If you can name anyother country, and give examples of such little selfishness I will shut up.
P.S. I assume that you think your country is better than us, I'd like to know where you are from barf.
THIS SINGLE DOCUMENT INSPIRED Ghandi, the Eastern Bloc freedom fighters, even Mao Zedung and Ho Chi Minh. PRETTY AMAZING HOW ONE PEICE OF PAPER WRITTEN 225 YEARS AGO CAN BE THAT RESONATING.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Action of the Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United State of America
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the seperate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which imples them to the Seperation.
WE hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rights, Governemtns are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governedd, that whenever any Form of Governmetn becomes destructive of these Ends, it si the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likelye t effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governemnts long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experinece hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abues and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, envinces a Design to reduce them under absolute future Security. Such has been the pateinet Sufferance of these Colonies; and now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britian is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
CONSTITUION OF THE UNITED STATES
WE the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the commond defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution fo rhte United States of America.
HEY, IF ANY OF THIS LOOKS FAMILAR, ITS BECAUSE MOST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES CONSTITUIONS ARE BASED ON THE USA's!
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free excerise theorof; or abridinging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amenment II
A well regulated Militaia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Solider shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, with outht eh consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizuress, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searches, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamouse crim, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall nay person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeporady of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;' nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and sistric wherein the crime shall have been commited; which district shall have been perviously aseertianed by law, and to be informed of the nature and causes of the accustaion; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controvery shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be perserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Ecessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor crule and unusual punishments inflicted
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constituion of certain rights shall not be constructed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respecitively, or to the people.
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