"Three fingers point back"

"This is the greatest country in the world"
Random Redneck

Before I start I will say that though I plan to be more interesting than Chris Rock on Bill Maher friday night...this is all motivated by gas prices. I remember when I got my ride in '02 it cost $20 bucks to fill it up. Now it costs me over $30 with gas already in the tank! Perhaps it's just my general displeasure of the situation, but I swear gas doesn't last as long anymore. I feel like I'm buying coke and I'm getting mostly cut...but I digress.

Being that America is always right and is the best thing since bloodletting, I figured I'd go over some high points in our history.

1763 - 1775 Here's a fun fact since people love to talk about how terrorists fight dirty...did you know that we (as a nation) pioneered guerilla tactics. For centuries throughout history when nations went to war on land the two sides would meet up on a field, hurl some projectiles and then the armies would go at it. When Americans fought the "Red Coats" they said the hell with that. While the british were lined up and marching single file, American troops hid in the foliage and took them out. The British found it quite unsporting.

1692 During the salem Witch trials the founders of this great land became afraid of witches. During this time many people were killed. The thing is they were killed in the most ignorant fashion..."We're going to hold you under water, if you die it's cause you're a witch, if you're not than God will save you." I'm not sure if I would call that sporting.

1492 - 1895 (or so) I'll just say that in 1492 there were about 12 Million Natives in this land, 4 centuries later 237 thousand. I was really hoping that the Shinnecocks would get to take the summer homes of the rich and famous...

Too far back for you, then here...

1979 - 1989 The C.I.A. invests $2.1 Billion dollars to support the Anti-Soviet Resistance in Afghanistan. We trained what Regan called, "the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters." We taught them how to use guerilla tactics against a larger, well armed force. Of course our purpose was to help facilitate the fall of the U.S.S.R. Now boys and girls guess who was apart of those freedom fighters.

1980's America backs Saddam and Iraq against Iran. We gave this cat money, information and (Drumroll please) weapons. I find it rather weird that just about everyone we give weapons and money to ends up using them against us. Did I mention that even though we helped Saddam we still gave weapons to Iran hoping they would release Western Hostages.

I find it interesting that we still can't admit to our participation in events around the world and the way that they have come back to bite us. Saddam originally wanted to control the oil in the Middle East, when we helped him his actions served our interest. Once he did something that we didn't like we brought up the history of what he did to Iranians and his own people...we don't mention the fact that he did this while we supported him.

Bin Laden and those that fight with him were trained and funded by us when it served our purpose. When we were done we left them with a war torn land that couldn't be farmed. They figured, "We have weapons and training" and became a nomadic force fighting anywhere people of the islamic faith were fighting. Imagine if we invested some interest in these people after we got what we wanted from them. If we had spent a portion of what we did to aid their land post-conflict, would there be such a massive force in the world right now?

Too bad this great nation not only lacks the balls to admit to it's past, but it won't even challenge a public servant who is screwing up all over the world. I just think, people were going to impeach Clinton for lying about a blow-job. We should just support the current prez in a continually failing military operation based on a lie. What a country.