| Samus Aran said: Kasz, a lot of Chinese people still think Mao is a great man. I'll even go as far and say that the majority of the Chinese people think he is a great man(He of course was no great man at all). Just look at Mao's mausoleum at Tiananmen Square. I'm also not sure how many people died because of Mao's fault(indirectly and directly), but I think it's a lot higher then what the Nazis ever achieved. And you're making a false analogy in your other post. Nuclear weapons had nothing to do with it. I'm not saying people were happy with a dictator like Saddam Hussein. I never said anything like that. I'm just saying a lot of people in Iraq were and still are angry at the invasion of America. The country still is a political mess and I don't see much improvement at all. I never said anything about the school systems in America, I was talking about the American government. Especially the government under Bush(I can't judge Obama just yet) |
50 Million +.
So yeah, a lot more...
I worked for Chinese people who lived in America and who's parents lived in Canada though. People who have since had access to real education and knowledge.
Also, you've still got it wrong. A lot of people then weren't angry with the invasion of Iraq. They were later angry about the invasion after seeing results of Bushs' poor handling. Opinion polls early on were positive. (Nuetral polls mind you.) It was thought "Oh the Americans are going to invade, and set up a government, bring over new buisness, help out our economy... Iraq is going to be a lot better." Then when they found out that Bush was an idiot, who only sent troops to protect stuff we particularly cared about, disbanded the army putting everyone out of work and was slow to do anything to help the actual people.... they got upset. Hell there was great resentment that we didn't "Finish" the job during the Gulf war under Bush 1.
It's just like in the US. Most people were for the war when it happend. (Not me... i basically predicted everything that happened.) After the war happened you had a bunch of people face the unidealized realities and they went 'Hey, maybe this was a bad idea." Everyone thought "Oh we'll go in, take out Saddam eaisly, set up a goverment and be out by the end of the week and there will be a parade, and maybe a national holiday and we'll all be safer cause we'll get rid of some deadly weapons terrorists could get their hands... possiblye even nuclear ones. They'll probably even have a national holiday where they thank us... won't that be great!"
Faced with the reality... that should of been aparent from the start... that's when everyone was against it. The way people would have you believe it now is that Nobody but Bush wanted to go into Iraq and he dragged the whole country in lock stock and barrel, when in reality MOST people wanted to invade because they were acting all irrational and paranoid because of 9/11.
