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I cannot argue with someone that believes the standard History books on USA Public Schools isn't unbiased, even most USA historians says so. Get informed about the truth of USA History Books for their High Schools and more... http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0722/p03s01-ussc.html http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2002/0502maier.html http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/clic...c/hist_r45.html http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/pub...tion.cfm?id=331 http://www.washtimes.com/specialreport/200...25027-5592r.htm http://www.detnews.com/2004/schools/0401/15/a09-36511.htm -nintendo64

I'm hoping Hydrogen will be the future... Oil Politics will get worse, specially when the oild supply is coming to an end in about 150 years. -nintendo64

First off, Congragulations on being one of the few USA citizens to accept the idea of his country being imperialistic. Most of them denies it. Every Tyrant has done something alike another tyrant. Here's a list of Tyrants around the world put in office or has recieved support by the USA. Abacha, General Sani ----------------------------Nigeria Amin, Idi ------------------------------------------Uganda Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba Bolkiah, Sir H!@#$%^&*anal ----------------------------Brunei Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti Duvalier, Jean Claude-----------------------------Haiti Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King ---------------------Saudi Arabia Franco, General Francisco -----------------------Spain Hitler, Adolf ---------------------------------------Germany H!@#$%^&*an II-------------------------------------------Morocco Hussein, Saddam----------------------------------Iraq Marcos, Ferdinand -------------------------------Philippines Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez ---El Salvador Mobutu Sese Seko -------------------------------Zaire Noriega, General Manuel ------------------------Panama Ozal, Turgut --------------------------------------Turkey Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza ---------------Iran Papadopoulos, George --------------------------Greece Park Chung Hee ---------------------------------South Korea Pinochet, General Augusto ---------------------Chile Pol Pot---------------------------------------------Cambodia Rabuka, General Sitiveni ------------------------Fiji Montt, General Efrain Rios ---------------------Guatemala Sal!@#$%^&*ie, Halie ------------------------------------Ethiopia Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira --------------------Portugal Somoza, Anastasio Jr. --------------------------Nicaragua Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -------------------------Nicaragua Smith, Ian ----------------------------------------Rhodesia Stroessner, Alfredo -----------------------------Paraguay Suharto, General ---------------------------------Indonesia Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -----------------------Dominican Republic Videla, General Jorge Rafael ------------------Argentina Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed ----------------------Pakistan Long list... A lot of crimes comitted by this people, and some of them pale in consideration of others. Saddam Hussein was not considered a threat to the USA, and if you didn't know, it's not like the USA never visited Iraq for a long time til now. USA and Britain has been bombarding it, a long with sanctions, that kill many Iraqies daily or did. Now it's the military. Probably the reason why US and UK decided to go after Iraq is more than Oil, yes, it could be China, or the Euro, afterall many OPEC countries such as Iraq decided to change their trade currency to Euro, dumping the dollar. Here's an essay A Soldier posted a link about US PetroDollar. http://www.ratical.com/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html Some books about the sanctions past doing on Iraq. http://www.leftbooks.com/cgi-local/SoftCar....html?E+scstore http://www.leftbooks.com/online-store/scst...bi19981101.html Bombing almost daily Iraq by US and UK http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm Oil will be cheap? nah, the idea on winning lots of money in the oil business is not to provide cheap merchandise, afterall YOU NEED OIL, YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT, it's not like some food product you can always replace. Higher Prices, more earnings. http://www.krysstal.com/images/democracy_iraq1991.jpg UN will never work as long as the VETO power still exists, Veto should be taken out. Just look at how many good propositions were Vetoed by the Soviet Union, USA, China, and more countries, but essentially USA and the Soviet Union. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2828985.stm http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/pda/news.php?article=4754 -nintendo64

Maybe, i should have said, before you read this article you must ignore American History books that are evaluated on standard exams nation wide. Now, that you don't have your head filled with the "evil red empire" dribble, you can read the article. -nintendo64

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je l'ai parie, aussi. -nintendo64

Some info, if someone cares. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Caribbea...ican_Repub.html -nintendo64

I've not researched the reasons of Haiti economic problems, but i do remember from my Dominican History class, that on 1870 Haiti was way more advanced than the Dominican Republic. Probably because Haiti independence was on 1809? or so?. -nintendo64

Just a Guide of Nukes Worldwide. http://www.fas.org/nuke/index.html CIA declassified Do-*BAD WORD*-ents http://www.foia.cia.gov/ -nintendo64

Like A Soldier said, why are you people implying we hate an entire country just because of its past actions? Hate is, definetly not, the word you should be looking for... Most of us are civilized and probably will never become terrorists unless necessary or emigrate. At least for me. Btw it wasn't exactly prevension from another Cuba, that was just the excuse given, we all know it was for business interests, since Juan Bosch was starting a nationatilzation process for enterprises, so the big companies will be dominican, and not foreign. -nintendo64

If you want you can ignore that site, and call it just an opinion, but you forget, i am from the Dominican Republic, and i got relatives who lived throught USA invasions and told about the atrocities they did, and what they actually protected. About what SuSe said, not to be an ingrate, but who called for your aid? AID it's like a gift, but USA gives it to force a nation to do as they say. I believe many countries will be happier if they actually took their AID and whatever they offer elsewhere, we don't need not intervention of our policies. Of course Free Trade will always be open. You got to remember we live in a world where you have to import as well as export. There's some saying, that the Country who is triumphant over another, will have their version of the truth, and of course one that glorifies itself. I've no doubt most USA Citizens prefer to say their country could never predict what it did, even when CIA classified reports has been opened to the public containing their plans of funding guerillas, coups, war, dictators, etc... Well, we live in a "survival of the fittest" society, so i guess barbarism will never dissappear as long as people defend such actions. USA a train in the way of anyone's actions that don't work with their interest, so you have to comply or you're -*BAD WORD*-ed, even the UN has to comply... Also Note, A Country's Interest not necessarily represents most people's interest in that country. -nintendo64

I show historical facts, to back my arguements, yet you support your arguements with some excuse about not being perfect, and man made goverments blabbering... We all know that already, The point still stands. Back your arguements with something with substance, please. ah also Exactly that way of thinking and acting, it's what made USA in the past, present, and probably in the future, one of the most hated nations world wide. As for Dr. Brain, I don't hate your country, i question their actions, and i see throught their lies. By the way, guns may not kill people, but giving guns to people who are willing to use them, does guarantee them using them to kill people. Note: I'm not labeling all USA citizens as evil, just that some of the actions of your country leave rather a sour taste. -nintendo64

There are so many things, YOUR COUNTRY has done, you seem to not know. USA has funded Death Squads (mob-like causing death) in countries such as El Salvador. It has put Dictators, the same thing, they're fighting claiming installing a democracy, that's just a big lie. Let's bring out Historic Facts to back the arguements. My point: Of course the USA has 40% of Weapons sells, it earn a lot of money by selling them to plenty rebels creating unstabilities in many countries. Here are a few for mine: http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa01.html -nintendo64

Do not see the War on Iraq, as USA saved Iraqi People, see it as USA tried to fix one of his plenty messes (sp?) in the World. -nintendo64

Bacchus, Military engineers have to eat too . -nintendo64

Tascar, i can only say re-read what i said. There's no split anger here, and There's not USA is at fault at everything countries do, There's just stating the facts.. -nintendo64

Right now, after the change of Presidents, the DR just had its election on 16 May 2004, Leonel Fernandez won, and the other president who was going for a reelection, Hipolito Mejia lost. The transition period between administrations is 3 months (yes i believe is too long), and even before Leonel Fernandez took power, the USA just offered "help" for our country of dropping our currency [Dominican Peso] for their precious dollar. Basically Dollarize the country. [Economics Situation in DR Summary] The dominican peso is one of the most stable currencies in latin america, and one of the few who has been 1 on 1 with the dollar, and even once the change used to be RD$0.46 [Dominican Pesos] for 1 dollar on 1946. At 2000 the peso was 16 for 1 dollar, and because of the corruption of the administration that lost in the 16 May elections plus some global factors, the dominican pesos is 47 to 1 Dollar, and still deappreaciating... The problem is Prices of products go up while people's salary stays the same, the USA is offering the Dollar because the prices will always be still as the income. Althought most dominicans fell for it, the DR will need 4 Billion USA dollars to dollarize, guess who's willing to loan us that?, guess who's willing to increase our external debt?, because they believe dollarizing will be good, amazing. To put it in perspective if you earn about what? let's say 500 pesos per month[What most people make], and use the 47 change your wage will be 11 dollars [Wage of average joe], yes, but what will be the price of let's say a family meal will be RD$22,000 about 468 dollars per month, do you think with a 11 dollar wage will it make a difference Peso Currency? or Dollar currency?. In my opinion Dollarizing will be pointless, for another reason besides that, the Dollar is a hard currency which is deappreaciting compared to others such as Euro, maybe changing to Euro will be better, althought changing to either of those two will not be a good solution. Probably, the richer will benefit, but because i'm a people's person i am going against it. Neocolonialism is not what colonialism is. Neocolonialism is predominant economic, politic, cultural,... influence from industrialized countries over independent development countries. This means let's say a powerful country is named X, and a development country is named Y. X dictates whatever Y policy will be, do you think Y is truly an independent country? USA Citizens in the DR [Not Goverment oriented] Europpean Union[uK, Germany, Spain, France mainly], Canada, Soviet Union [Russia,Ukraine and others now, lesser extent in today's world], some Latin American countries and others (Japan, Taiwan mainly) towards the DR has made also a positive impact, but because i'm going for the USA part, they will not be mentioned. In my honest opinion, Education is the most important factor an industrialized country can help a country in development, therefore i'm biased towards mentioning as positive impacts only education. To mention few examples: Cornell University from New York, has come here to the DR and worked with national universities such as UNPHU [in Spanish] in different projects together [sending Teachers, Offering Courses to Students/Teachers etc...] as well as offering students exchange. massachusetts Ins!@#$%^&*ute of Tecnology, as well has send professors to national universities and offered exchanges. Harvard University being the more active here, they've come several times to do fauna/flora studies and medicine conditions, even few months ago they've offered to found an school of medicine with the help of other national universities in the DR. USA Citizens acting alone, has also make an impact on education, i've met few USA teachers which are retirees or decided they liked the country and stayed, and went the education way, teaching in Universities/Schools. Most of them feel they want to teach dominicans to have a broader look of their country and them in the world, USA History teachers specially like to push students to participate more on the politics plane. Those are few to mention about USA Citizens working here without Goverment pushing them to as "aid". -nintendo64

Tascar, i am not labeling all americans as cheaters... But yes, i'm saying USA interests in the DR will always be present, in fact, most of the aid we get from USA always has some secret clause. Maybe you should read about neocolonialism and USA role in Latin America, from the Latin American perspective as well. -nintendo64

A dominican with at least a High School Degree from a Private School (not Bi-lingual oriented- [most of those ran/founded by USA citizens]) are well aware of USA interests in our country, and their past actions. In fact, even Trujillo (Most famous Dictator from the DR) once told his son ramfis, he should learn from the americans, because they will cheat on you, in your face. -nintendo64

Why not spend BILLIONS on developing countries? if people on those countries had 1/4 opportunity of an USA citizen or any other industrious country, wouldn't they be happy how they are, instead of attacking the bigger countries as a call for attention? Don't you know why people steal? they steal to get money, because they have none, you teach them how to earn, and they'll probably change. A Good Enviroment for a person DOES influence on the person's future actions. Well, the problem is countries such as USA wants their foreign slave labor, pay them dirt. Less Pay for the laborer, More Profit, that's how capitalism work doesn't it? maximize profits, minimize costs. -nintendo64

WTF? didn't USA INVADE Iraq?, they have all the right in the world to go AGAINST the TRESP!@#$%^&*ERS. USA shouldn't be FORCING a Democracy in any country they WANT!. This War against Terror, it's just a PRETEXT TO INVADE any country with the excuse is full of terrorists, if they want to fight terrorists, they should elimante them in their country first, then THROUGHT THE UN WORK WITH OTHER COUNTRIES to fight against terrorists organizations. -nintendo64

This is not a conventional War, it is not against a country, it is not like the World War 2, it is not like Vietnam, Terrorist are anywhere, even in your backyard, the USA or . It is not a War you can beat easily, the terrorist can be armed from a slingshot to a nuclear missile. -nintendo64

!@#$%^&*embly is the lowest level of programming language, every programming high level language converts its code to !@#$%^&*embly, then that code it's "!@#$%^&*embled" into machine code. !@#$%^&*embly uses machine registers. (eax, ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi...) Ex of !@#$%^&*embly code: Add two numbers .data num1 dd 0 num2 dd 0 .code start: mov num1, 5 mov num2, 5 mov eax, num1 add num2, eax end start Result is 10, it's in num2. -nintendo64

Good read for programmers. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/05...egreatcode.html -nintendo64

if you cannot reply with something useful, then don't. It's annoying to be reading a thread just to find this insults a long the way. -nintendo64