Quite a yarn you spin Father Epps. You start with a story about a rude Canadian, and finish by telling your readers, if they don’t agree with you, they have your permission to leave the USA? God bless you sir. May your collection plates drip over with money as freely as the venom that flows from your parting paragraph.

We have recently moved to The Peachtree City area from The Big State, that would be Texas , and I have to just let you know that The Citizen is in great part refreshing. We are and have been media people for 10 years now and "refreshing" is hardly synonomous with varied forms of media but in your case it is very suitable. Your opinion pieces in particular are enjoyable and I down right love reading them! Especially concerning out Great USA. I could not agree more that enemies and critics of this fabulous country are more than welcome to find somewhere better to live. Good Luck! Thank you sir for your entertaining propper perspectives.

The concept that you fail to grasp about the United States is this: “We the People” are not to blame for this arch villain reputation we have acquired. No this rests solely upon the shoulders of the bankers who own the military industrial complex that controls the DC government like a master puppeteer.

No we did not occupy Kuwait, however our forces remain massed in Saudi Arabia, a contention among radical Muslims, the blowback of which contributed to the 9-11 attacks. If you do some research you’ll find there is no oil shortage.

As far as WWII is concerned we have occupying forces stationed in Europe and Japan to this day! As a matter of fact the Pentagon is currently operating 737 military bases around the world worth US $127 billion, reflecting both the war in Iraq and the Hitlerian Bush-now-Obama doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against countries it deems to be a danger to American interests.

According to a 2005 Pentagon report, during the fiscal year of the same period, US the military high command deployed to overseas American bases some 196,975 uniformed personnel as well as an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials. It employed an additional 81,425 locally hired foreigners. The worldwide total of US military personnel in 2005, including those based domestically, was 1,840,062 supported by an additional 473,306 Defense Department civil service employees and 203,328 local hires. Its overseas bases, according to the Pentagon, contained 32,327 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and 16,527 more that it leased. The size of these holdings was recorded in the inventory as covering 687,347 acres overseas and 29,819,492 acres worldwide, making the Pentagon easily one of the world’s largest landlords. These numbers are staggeringly big, but they do not begin to cover all the actual bases that the US occupies globally.

The 2005 Pentagon report fails to mention any garrisons in Kosovo, even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel built in 1999 and maintained ever since by an American corporation, a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation of Houston, once led by Vice President Dick Cheney.

The report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq (106 garrisons as of May 2005), Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, even though the US military has established colossal base structures in the Persian Gulf and Central Asian areas since 9/11.

Similarly, the Pentagon continues to omit from its accounts most of the $5 billion worth of military and espionage installations in Britain, which have long been conveniently disguised as Royal Air Force bases.

In all, the US has military, logistics and status agreements with at least 129 countries as of 2005, so the Pentagon is the biggest most powerful military empire ever known. The sun never sets on it.
The reason we are hated is not because of our freedom as the propaganda lies try to convince us, it is because the DC government is now the aggressor and occupier of the world.

Think about this: what if say China invaded Mexico and started troop build ups on the southern border? Then a year later the same happened in Canada surrounding us building up troops, all the while sending drones into our airspace to collect intel.

WE WOULD NOT STAND FOR IT!!! Should We the People expect any less from other nations, like say, Iran? Other nations do not ask for anything from us that we do not demand for ourselves! The propaganda against Iran is increasing rapidly that they are seeking nuclear weapons. If they are, who would blame them? They are surrounded by the most destructive military force in the history of the world. Again, what would we do in that situation? Prepare for war, that's what! Why do we expect a different response from any one else? Its like "do as I say, not as I do!"

What would the founding fathers do about all this criminality, and fraud in DC? They would shake their heads, load their guns, whip the bankster controlled government and arrest them for crimes against humanity.

The people never want war, as it is a racket. It benefits no one, but the governments and the banks that fund their war chests. No Mr. Epps WE are not the “great satan,” but the DC government has acted like him for quite some time now.

In Liberty,

DarthDubious

for saying in a public forum what so many of us want to shout to the world! Sure, we're not perfect, but who is? And for all our mistakes, I believe the help provided to other countries by the U.S. far outweighs any wrongs we have committed or strings we have attached. How many countries stepped up with materials, money and helping hands during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita? Yet the U.S. doesn't hesitate to help when people are in need. Indeed, the world has come to expect the U.S. to help out when trouble strikes. How would these countries react if we didn't? I'm sure we'd be the bad guys then for NOT stepping in!

I hope your column makes it around the world. I plan to forward it to all my friends and I hope others will do the same. God bless you.

You are correct in that some of the things we do in other countries are good--but usually with money only, and often with strings.

All, or nearly all, of the other stuff we have done in recent years has to do with bombing and killing over 100,000 Iraqis. I won't expand on our 4-5,000 dead and 35,000 wounded.
Right now we drop guided bombs on whole crowds of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan! Many of these people are innocent just as they were in Iraq.
The Saudis and Africa furnished the Trade Center Bombers and yet we love them!

These radicals will be plotting and whacking us for many, many years I am afraid for two reasons. The Koran says they must, and they hate us as humans.

Muslims do not forget such things. They still hate the word "Crusades!" (from about a thousand years ago). Many also hate the word "Inquisition."

We did run the Nazis out of France, Italy, Germany and a few more places but they aren't caught up yet to their glory of 2-300 years ago, and never will.
As you miight have noticed, these countries are "doubtful," well, useless, when we need some help in our wars. So is Japan.

I don't know if Japan wouild have bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 had we not cut off their livlihood of imports! They may still be fighting the Chinese instead of hitting Pearl Harbor.

The "ugly American" didn't happen from our peaceable entreaties!

We are somewhat like the well-meaning people who want to keep everybody "in-line" as long as it is our "line."
The British failed at that!