Bret,

It seems this mantra of "Anti-American" is getting boring, because you should know it's not true. Instead you already noticed that ALL my criticism is against the Bush administration, and the folks surrounding him (Wolfovitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney & Co) because of their plans of american domination over the world, using military forces if their "other arguments" fail. If you are convinced that I'm anti-american, that's fine, sorry you couldn't separate one thing from another and you must be tightly connected to the delirium of your president and can't see correctly these kind of things. It only proves that propaganda really works (even better if you use the name of God in it, and war of the good against evil!).

If you've noticed, MOST of my postings are references and links to News companies (most of them British BBC). In this case you should say BBC is anti-american and there must be a plot taking place somewhere in UK. If that bothers you, sorry, I didn't make the facts that become news. Bush did.

Did I invented ONE single thing I've posted? Please point me it and I'll promptly apologize.

Do you deny the facts that I've been talking about? Tell wich one, please, and append your arguments to be further discussed.

Nobody needs to tell the story of those disgraced people in Iraq that lived under the control of that bloody and miserable dictator. Think EVERYBODY is aware os his atrocities (including me). But that DOESN'T justifies the atrocities that are being made, once more, to that poor people, now imposed by the US military (with their "inteligent" weapons that just kill innocent civilians and journalists not sold to the US government propaganda). Or you haven't seen the images or read/listened the reports? A sea of bombs over innocent people, killing and mutilating them, or US tanks bombing journalists for everybody in the world to watch, astonished, in TV, just as an example. Isn't that a massacre?

So, in YOUR judgement, it's compreensible and justifiable to massacre innocent kids, women and old people with the excuse you are "liberating" them from the terror: with MORE terror, and you'll liberate the ones that'll last alive, even thou their lives will be destroyed for EVER.

About Brazil: we are a country still full of injustices, and we already suffered tortures and murders made by our governants during the dictatorship and today we are facing a tough war, declared by our President Lula, against hungryness. 40+%, some sources indicate, of our population doesn't have enough or decent meals. We are not even able to do what OUR people needs, but even so we try to help other countries that are EVEN in more bad conditions than our people is (like in helping combating AIDS, because we have a very good program for that). Brasil is a country known by its friendship and conciliatory actions. We are not known to be belicists or imperialists. You have the power, the weapons (including WMD), the money. We just have good will, friendship and hospitality to offer. We share the little we have. Some of us have BIG mouths, like I have, to shout about injustices we see.

About "And I am sure in your mind everything is about oil and money" I can assure you that MY mind isn't, but you CAN'T say that about the US government, for them this plays a big role, as "power" and "domination". If you have some doubts, please check "The New American Century" and the "American Enterprise Institute" for some references (I'm sure you have the URLs to their web sites and "selected" articles).

The story and the picture of that mutilated boy shocked you? If so, what are YOU doing to stop that?

>Also please explain to me the celebrations that are going on in Iraq right now?

It's not me that have to explain anything about what's going on that massacre. If they are celebrating your invasion (thus representing an act of good will of the US, by "liberating" them from the terror) think you americans will have not to fear future terrorism in your country (because this invasion was done to vanish the terrorism coming from Iraq. The "threat", remember?), IF those that are celebrating represent the majority of the Iraqi people (not to talk about the worldwide Arab and Muslim comunities, that must be really happy as well).

The next US campain in Iraq is about "hearts and minds", isn't it? Till now I'm not sure what that means.

Regards,

Fernando