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)

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At home, we currently have an administration who seems to be more focused on furthering Catholic political agendas than listening to the will of Americans as a whole.

This country's rules were set up on a religious view.

Bush has a bad reputation. Why? Because he made up some bogus idea that there were "weapons of mass destruction" stashed somewhere in Iraq and was having a paranoia fit that they were going to come and attack America. So he sent in soldiers, ruined their country and is now trying to rebuild it in "his" why as an act of kindness. Oh, and did I mention there weren't any weapons of mass destruction at all?

Clinton had to deal with this too. Bush's DAD had to deal with this. It's not completely this bush's fault. It's been going on. Well. Frankly. When a leader of a country HATES US, and they had weapons that could kill the WHOLE country in a blink of an eye, um, I would do something about it.