America is ungrateful...

[elprincipe]

Dark_Lord_2008 said:
Please spare a thought to those poor American citizens, 50 million living in poverty. The current government does not give a flying **** about and continues to waste over a trillion dollars on spilling blood for oil in the middle east. Over 3000 US soldiers lives have been wasted in Iraq since 2003 alone and one million Iraqi citizens have died due to disease, starvation or killed by US bombs.

There are a lot of things wrong with this post, but I'll just try a short reply.

1. "Poverty" in the U.S. is not having two flatscreen plasma TVs.  Our folks in poverty are a heck of a lot better off than people in poverty in most other countries.  Not saying their lives are ideal, but please.

2.  Our government wastes trillions, absolutely true, but it's not on blood for oil.  Tell me, how much have we reduced gas prices since our engagments in the Middle East, especially Iraq?  It's gone up by 100%, you say?  Well, surely we must have taken control of Iraq's oil fields and made a killing, or at least taken enough off the top to pay for the war?  No, you say, we are spending billions every day in reconstruction while they keep the oil profits for their own country?  Wow, looks like we're getting a lot of oil for our blood.

3. "1 million" Iraqis dead is a horrible exaggeration.  No idea where you got that ridiculous number.  Most estimates put the number killed at between 50,000-100,000 since 2003 (not that that is anything wonderful, but it's not anywhere near your made-up 1 million).