American Idiot

Overall this is an alright song, now to clear up some stuff for you fools. Apparantely no one here is educated or done their homework and it seems that everyone is brainwashed

first of all, it was entertaining to hear Saddam be called a communist. This is understandable as it is part of cold war dogma that obviously hasn't totally worn off. The term now is terrorist. All who oppose us are terrorists, they were called communists up until 1990. Up until that time, Saddam was our best friend. We gave him all his weapons so he could fight Iran and keep radical Islam from spreading. We knew about him gassing the Kurds a long long time ago but we turned a blind eye. We only used it now as propaganda to invade when in fact we knew about over a decade ago. It was only when Saddam disobeyed that we turned against him. Crimes are not of great consequence, it is disobedience.

Second of all, you are a fool to try and justify this war because all the pretexts for it have been refuted. There are no weapons of mass destruction there and there were no ties with Saddam and Osama Bin Laden, this has been proven. The argument that we couldn't just stand idle and do nothing is laughable. This is like seeing someone on the street being mugged, so you take out your assault rifle and kill the mugger, the victim, and all the standbyers. It makes no sense. Iraq is worst off than it has ever been. Sure we're going to rebuild it but at what cost? Billions of dollars have already gone towards this and billions more will follow.

So how exactly was Iraq a threat to the United States? It wasn't. Was it a threat to its neighbors? If it was, why didn't its neighbors show concern. The only state in danger of Iraq was Israel. The truth is, we're fighting Israel's war for them.

Of course we retalliated against Afghanistan after 9/11 and that was justified. But no sooner had the dust settled there did we move to Iraq. Let's take this imperialistic march one country at a time. The war on terror is not your conventional war and therefore cannot be fought with conventional methods. It's like delcaring a war on poverty and bombing mexico. Like someone said earlier on, violence breeds more violence. Conquering a state like Iraq will not help solve terrorism. In fact it will help breed more terrorists because the people of the region see their homeland being desecrated and their people murdered.

Someone stated earlier on that it was the Arabs who started it. The fact is we have had a harsh foreign polcy to the middle east for over half a century and now we are seeing the consequences. We are slowly separating ourselves from the rest of the world. We have very little international support and more and more people are starting to hate us. They may not hate you as an individual but they may hate your government that destroyed their homes and killed their children.

One intersting fact is that we also armed Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded them. Kinda funny how these things backfire on us.

What was also funny is the guy who tried defining a massacre as over 5000 people. Who are you to do such a thing. The story with most of South America is that when they democratically elect a leader from the left, we invade them usually under a pretense of a drug war. The drug war pretense didn't last too long though and was quickly replaced with terrorism.

The media contributes to this a great deal. This whole control by fear started after world war 1. During that time it was the facists that had to be defeated. This proved to be a useful strategy to get the public to do whatever the government wanted so right after ww2 ended, communism was the new threat. News reports about how the soviets were going to kill all of us were all over the place and children were doing nuclear bombing drills at schools. Communism was then used as a tool for foreign intervention. After the fall of communism, that pretext could not be used aymore. This is seen when we invaded Panama under the drug war pretext which was soon replaced by terrorism. Anyone see those reports on tv about dirty bombs and how to duct tape the cracks in your house incase of biological bombing? more scare tactics.

The argument saying "if you don't like it, then leave America" is the one that enrages me. Too bad we've made the rest of the world a hell hole and do you think people are just going to up and leave their homes and friends? People seem to forget that this country was based on the ideals of renegades and radicals and to the British, we were terrorists. So why is it unpatriotic to question the government? Why is anyone who criticizes the government deemed unpatriotic? How can anyone defend the patriot act? How can you defend liberty by placing restrictions on it?

It seems like a waste to argue this on a music website, e-mail me or instant message me if you want to argue.