CDB Have you lived in the US at all? I don't think you know how it works there. 1st off, you can't blame me or any other American on here for invading Iraq, which isn't even your country to begin with. You know darn well that American soldiers are not walking around with their guns just blowing innocent women and children away, so give that up. It is the locals who are walking around as suicide bombers and using car bombs to kill of their own people. Read the news...it's all there and everyone knows it. And as for stealing their wealth, come on now, we buy large quantities of ME oil, so in fact we are supporting the economy here. If and when the US goes green, what are you going to do when the ME loses a large portion of it's wealth?
2nd off, You can't hold an entire country responsible for the actions of it's government. I was not a big GWB fan, I think he made many bad decisions (invading Iraq is one of them), but that is my opinion, and I am sure there is people who would disagree with me. The beautiful thing about that is I am from a land where people can express their opinions.
3rd, yes I think Qatar is trying to project an image of nobility, lavish luxury. Why else would they hire all these Expats to come here and build up their country. All the best for the Qatari and lets put all the people working to build all these big beautiful state of the art buildings in shacks on the outskirts of town and not pay them so they can never go home.
I am sorry for my outburst, I am just sick and tired of seeing all these people on QL who are judging me, an American, for the actions of my government. The west this, the west that. I don't think you can truly have an opinion until you have lived in the west for an extended period of time, like I am living here. I see what goes on here and if I were Qatari, I would be ashamed. But then that is my opinion too. I apologize now to the Qatari people here on QL who have proven themselves to be upstanding citizens. This was not at all directed towards them.
CDB Have you lived in the US at all? I don't think you know how it works there. 1st off, you can't blame me or any other American on here for invading Iraq, which isn't even your country to begin with. You know darn well that American soldiers are not walking around with their guns just blowing innocent women and children away, so give that up. It is the locals who are walking around as suicide bombers and using car bombs to kill of their own people. Read the news...it's all there and everyone knows it. And as for stealing their wealth, come on now, we buy large quantities of ME oil, so in fact we are supporting the economy here. If and when the US goes green, what are you going to do when the ME loses a large portion of it's wealth?
2nd off, You can't hold an entire country responsible for the actions of it's government. I was not a big GWB fan, I think he made many bad decisions (invading Iraq is one of them), but that is my opinion, and I am sure there is people who would disagree with me. The beautiful thing about that is I am from a land where people can express their opinions.
3rd, yes I think Qatar is trying to project an image of nobility, lavish luxury. Why else would they hire all these Expats to come here and build up their country. All the best for the Qatari and lets put all the people working to build all these big beautiful state of the art buildings in shacks on the outskirts of town and not pay them so they can never go home.
I am sorry for my outburst, I am just sick and tired of seeing all these people on QL who are judging me, an American, for the actions of my government. The west this, the west that. I don't think you can truly have an opinion until you have lived in the west for an extended period of time, like I am living here. I see what goes on here and if I were Qatari, I would be ashamed. But then that is my opinion too. I apologize now to the Qatari people here on QL who have proven themselves to be upstanding citizens. This was not at all directed towards them.
Ok, let the onslaught of crap begin...
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