[darkpuppet]

I'm with ZTWSquared...

I lost a couple of friends in the WTC attacks. And I'm not sure any Canadian could think that it didn't hit close to home.

What bothers me is the constant policy in America of rule by ignorance. So much time and effort is spent to actually create ignorance to shape the population's beliefs systems.

Wether it's the GOP's policy on abstinence as the only form of sex education to their endless rhetoric on 'democracy' and 'terrorism' to convince their own people they are acting in the best interests of the region.

It's the exact same thing that got them into trouble in the first place. They spend so much time and effort pushing their own foreign policies in other people's backyards, yet they don't understand why people are pissed at them. They don't try to see or understand the whole picture, they just resort to ignorant rhetoric to make their points.

And it pisses me off that you have people vying for government that are making statements that are not only false, but even if they were made in pure jest and sarcasm, there's a good chance that the majority of people would still believe it and base their beliefs system on that nugget of misinformation.

Sure we've done the same and criticized the US, but honestly, if I can't criticize the US for making false statments about my country, i'm just bowing to their campaign of misinformation.