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Richard,

So now the American public are being equated with a retarded girl. I guess that's a bit offensive any way you spin it and from any view point. So, unless people agree 100% with you, they are not only wrong, but mentally retarded waiting to be raped by others. You're a real genius that's for sure.

The easiest way to see how hollow someone's argument is is when they start using extremist language like calling the US population a "retarded" girl and saying that our elected officials are raping us. Instead, how about you actually defend your ARGUMENT and explain how none of the things I mentioned was true, and show how the US no longer does good in the world. While you're at it, how about explaining, since according to you "I see our government as wanting it all - all the resources, all the money, all the power - not to bequeath it to humanity, but to just have it for itself," how it is that we're still paying record prices for oil when we have all that "free" oil we've apparently stolen from Iraq? How is it we're spending money there to rebuild it, but we don't own it all?

It's easy to use vitriolic language and statements when you have no real argument to make to support your side. If you want to argue specifics about the war in Iraq or about government corruption (on both sides of congress) there's plenty of specifics to argue. Calling the majority of US voters "retarded" is both immature and ignorant on it's own merit. How about explaining, with some example, how we support foreign lands less? Explain how we do less humanity work than we once did? Explain how the American people are less giving to others than we were at that time? Explain how the world is worse off with the US in the mix rather than better off?

I saw the horrors of what both the NAZI's and the Soviet Union did to people as recently as in the 90's in Europe. In some cases, they're still doing damage, by now supporting the strife in Kosovo and Serbia. They used forced suppression to enslave entire countries against their will. The took resources, manpower and robbed the potential of the countries they invaded. Do you equate the US with that? How about the regimes in Iran? In fact, if you don't want to talk about the truly oppressive regimes that ruin their citizens lives, how about point to the countries that do MORE and BETTER than the US in supporting others? If you can't easily rattle off the names with specific examples, then how can you condemn our way of life and goverment?

For someone in a government job, perhaps you have a chip on your shoulder concerning the way they do things. Isn't the USPS still controlled by the government? Does that explain your venom for both government and your fellow Americans?

And finally, since you see everyone else as Lemmings, does that mean you and you alone are the one with the knowledge, awareness and intelligence? Perhaps since you apparently know all and the rest of us are collectively a "raped retarded girl waiting for more," you should lead the country and protect us.

Brian