Enemy Combatants

January 14, 2009

I know that we the people of the United States have always felt that we were right and the other countries were always wrong. Over the many years we have gone into countries with our superior condescending attitude and exploited the different countries for their gold, diamonds, copper, silver and oil, with the help of their corrupt leaders. The leaders and our countries large corporations have gotten rich. The many citizens of those countries have remained poor and have been ill-treated. Finally that started to fight back against the people they felt had helped put them in the bad situation they found themselves.

Our country calls them terrorist because they supposedly bombed the Twin Towers. Now we have all these people in Guantanamo prison. We call them enemy combatants, they fought for their country, or were paid to do a job. After all they need to work to make a living. Now can someone please tell me the difference between enemy combatants working for their county and our ex-military-mercenary-fighters (Blackwatch) being paid large salaries to go to Iraq and others countries to fight and kill for the United States. We seem to have a double standard about people’s rights, and who are terrorist. People from other countries think we are terrorist when we go into their countries and do the same thing that they do when they come into the United States.