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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Warbler, you said above that when you think of terror attacks you think of Bin Laden - that is because his face and name is in every bloody newspaper and TV bulletin related to terrorists. He's a villain for the people to focus on. It's turning this whole thing into an over-simplified bad guy movie. And even you, who is clearly smart and aware that Bin Laden is not the be all and end all of this thing, still can't quite shake the concept even though you know it to be false, because it's thrown at you every day. A testiment to the power of the media.

The reason, I think of Bin Laden is not because of the media, is because whenever I think of terrorist attacks the first one I think of is 911(for obvious reasons), and Bin Laden was(and may still be) the leader of the group that did it.

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Originally posted by: ricarleite

Three words: bay of pigs. And it has been done in a lot of other places, some succeeded, some didn't.

You missed my point, we have had sanctions on Cuba for many yearsm and they haven't worked.

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Jedikev
Brazil has the best teams. Ronaldo is the greatest

* sigh * Ronaldo stopped playing serious football 8 years ago. He's just pathetic now.

*sign* there guys go again, calling soccer, football.

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
We don't have the patriotism of the USA over here (which is sad in some ways, because we have little to no national pride unless football is involved, but good too because nationalism is a bit dangerous in my opinion).

Same here, unless it envolved sports such as football or the olympics, or brazillians getting into harsh situations overseas (the one shot in UK, the one kidnapped in Iraq), we are actually the opposite of a patriotic country, we are very self deprecating. I am overly critic about this country and I hate it's politics and social problems as much as I make criticism about international politics - I just don't discuss it here as it would be inapropriated. But what I meant is that some people take my remarks about my political views as personal attacks, like I'm burning the flag or something. I must say I have nothing against US and UK as countries and its people, quite the opposite I enjoy the culture from both countries and I have nothing against the "cultural invasion" made by US (and to some extent UK and europe) over the world, I actually support it. I want to remind you all that although I am absolutely against every single decision made by both governments over the past 200 years and am absolutely disgussed by their political decisions and views, I have NOTHING against its people and the countries themselves... OK? I like you guys.

Sorry I Ric but do take statements personally like:

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
is this the price to pay for a pseudo oil fed "freedom"? Who are the terrorists? I say both sides.

and:

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
we are worse than them.

and this:

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
We are brain-washed by the government controlled media to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, eat fast food buy videogames watch TV and be happy,

sorry but I take them personally, partly I guess because there is some truth to them. Sorry but I take alot of pride in what my country stands for. You say it stands for oil and arrogance. I say it stands for freedom and democracy(laugh if you must). Yes I know we've made some mistakes, but sometimes people act like we are out to take over the world. Some people say that we are evil and blood thirsty. I say that is not so. I am sorry for the mistakes we've made, but hijacking planes and ramming them into buildings is not the answer. It offends me that some people just want to let the terrorists off the hook. Some people look at our country and all they can see is George W. Bush. Please look beyond him, our country is more than just him, alot more.