[Skybird]

"George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power."

With the exception of NO beeing an occupied zone I find her demands both reasonable and most honourful. Obviously she has learned the lesson about the event's under Bush's rulership. and NO: just wild guessing, but after having lost a son a mother may be excused from reacting a bit allergic to the sight of troops in towns inside her own country. It could be a simple human flaw, a psychological misstep,, the message of it simply is : pull out troops of NO and occupied Iraq. I also wouldn't read too much into this detail. And even if she said and meant it, her basic attitude still finds my respect and acceptance. Bush has messed up much more severe things and has radioed plenty of more idiotic word games millions of Americnas have taken as the third testament, and he is rightfully attacked by her for that. She reminds her nation that things were not as perfect as most residents prefer to see in recent years, that'S why she is hated so much.

BTW, she also finds plenty of support in American's opinion. This kind of audience just has not such a big lobby in this forum here.

As one reader in the comments section of her blog wrote: "I agree! We must pull our troops out of New Orleans as soon as possible and address the root causes of poverty. We must ask ourselves, why do they hate us?". - But America keeps on thinking it is below it's honour to ask the latter question, and cleans any critizism off the table by simply labelling such critizism as greed and envy on the american way of life. Continuing to walk in complete ignorrance and blindness, as recently seen during the UN summit where it enforced more than 750 changes to the original resolution and made sure that nothing, really nothing was left of the original idea to strengthen the UN; and at the same time and location trying to play the emotional card again by endlessly talking about war on terror and ignorring that it'S own behavior has motivated more men than ever before to join the leagues of terror, it hits and strucks at everyone it does not like and then wonders "Why do they hate us so much? Why do they look down on us?". That's why it is triggering "unexpected" (I say: to-be-expected) hostile reactions time and again. Cindy S. is reminding her countrymen of the flaws in their own system and indirectly tells them that their inner deficits as well as their international behavior may have something to do with the lacking respect for the US.