Looking In the Mirror

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney said "some people think there is a moral equivalence between what we (the American government) do, and what the terrorists do, which is simply not true". Quite right, Mr. former V.P.. There is no moral equivalence. What the United states government is doing, and has done for a long time, is far more immoral. The U.S. government (not the American people) has murdered hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent civilians during its history. Forget about the genocide of the natives. In 1898 the boiler room of an American warship exploded in Havana harbor, sinking the ship. The U.S. govt blamed the Spanish, declared war, conquered cuba, conquered the Phillipines, and murdered 800,000 Phillipinos. Can we say "Viet Nam napalm"? Then too, more recently, there are the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.The preceding list is only partial, and may never be complete. The terrorists hate the American government because the American military occupies what the terrorists consider Holy lands, and this inspires people to become terrorists. And to think, people like Cheney, people like Reagan, Rumsfeld, Bush, and Bush have the unmitigated audacity to call other countries names like "the evil empire", and the "axis of evil". Boys, how about a quick look in the mirror? If you like what you see, look again.