Apology to America

radiofreecostarica · Mar 23, 2003

Apology To America

On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an
apology to the United States of America. We haven't
been getting along very well recently and for that, I
am truly sorry.

I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron
but, it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any
consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't
reflect poorly on the people of America. After all,
it's not like you actually elected him.

I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we
have more trees than you doesn't give us the right to
sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your
own.

I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our
defense I guess our excuse would be that our team was
much, much, much, much better than yours.

I'm sorry we burnt down your white house during the
war of 1812. I notice you've rebuilt it! It's very
nice.

I'm sorry about your beer. I know we had nothing to do
with your beer but, we Feel Your Pain.

I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when
you're going up against a crazed dictator, you wanna
have your friends by your side. I realize it took more
than two years before you guys pitched in against
Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew he had
weapons.

And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that
we're constantly apologizing for things in a
passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly veiled
criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not upset over
this. We've seen what you do to countries you get
upset with.

Thank you.

andynbg · Mar 23, 2003

Guess I have to do the same because i am GERMAN

kayaman+ · Mar 23, 2003

Radio,

What are you??? On one post you say U.S. citizen, here you are speaking as a Canadian.

radiofreecostarica · Mar 23, 2003

This is from a canadian website 22minutes.com.
They take pride in their satire...

i'm from the US.

What are you?

kayaman+ · Mar 23, 2003

I thought that was probably from another author, just wanted to be sure. (No offense intended by the way.)

I'm American born and raised.

ldlax30 · Mar 23, 2003

Alittle different perspective...

Tony Parsons Daily Mirror

One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's
Mountain of Skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps.

An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate. Surely there could be consensus: The victims were truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil.

But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year. There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this
country; too loud, too rich, too full of themselves, and so much happier than Europeans -but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to me. More than that, it turns my stomach.

America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but from dozens of countries, were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them?

What touched the heart about those who died in the Twin Towers and on the planes, was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands, wives, and children, some unborn.
And these people brought it on themselves? Their nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?

These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it
likes without having to ask permission.

The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since September 11.

Remember, remember -

Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive.

Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning skyscrapers.

Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive.

Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her mum.

Remember, remember -

And realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have.

So a few al-Qaeda terrorists got locked-up without a trial in Camp X-ray?
Pass the Kleenex...

So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired their semiautomatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti.

AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a sign of strength. American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that
the mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination?

When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that --
and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism." A real war.

The fundamentalist are talking about "opening the gates of hell," if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.

The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.

But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched countries How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand - assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.

I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh. Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be - rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country
ever had and we should start remembering that.

Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning towers.

Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department.

To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein. Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the
orange center, Oh Mighty One!

Remember, remember, September 11 -

One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America.

No, do more than remember. Never forget.

radiofreecostarica · Mar 23, 2003

No, do more than remember. Never forget.

Never forget that the majority of the hijackers were Saudi.
Never forget that Iraq had nothing to do with this.

Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds
Never forget that this "gas" was sold to Saddam by the US.

ldlax30 · Mar 23, 2003

radio,

Off topic, but could you explain if you could, the United States roll in giving Iraq Chemical weapons? I am asking this honestly as i dont know the full background behind these comments. I dont doubt you, i am honestly just curious to know this. Thanks