Is America, Really as bad as people say? Options

[CrazayChristian]

I know, I'm an American, why am I asking this?

Well, I've heard both sides of the story, and I still don't see why people dislike America.

I came across this topic:

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And I realized that there must be some sort of prejudice involved.

In my opinion, we are doing alot already. We actually have more troups in the yugoslavian area than Iraq, and I think we lose more people there than Iraq. We have troups there to help stifle the fighting.
We have troups in Iraq so that we can help them to defend themselves.
We are the big brother of Isreal.

And yes we've had some bad moments, such as the bikini Islands. But, you're expected to make mistakes. Look at how the European powers did hundreds of years ago.

Some people blame the president for the problems, but put yourself in his shoes, to control the most powerful country in the world and try to make everyone happy. It just doesn't always work out.

So, I'm wondering, why do certain people (almost entire countries) dislike America?

(I'm curious about my facts, and I figured debate would be the best way to discuss diffrent sides)

[*not_your_average*]

President Bush's decisions have affected many, many countries in severely adverse ways. Take Iraq for example. We might be there to "help" them, but he attacked a soviergn nation with little proof of them being against our country. In Pres. Bush's press conference yesterday, he kept mentioning 9/11 while talking about Iraq, even though there is little proof of anyone from their country being involved in the 9/11 attacks. Even so, that is only a minute group of people, and we cannot blame an entire country for that. Now look at Iraq. There are car bombings, suicide bombings, all carried out by the insurgents. There was no news of this happening before the war.

This is exactly why so many countries hate the US. We have done things to their countries that might be unforgivable.