>"Why do you just hate America and everything we do?"

I don't hate America, I love America.....home of the brave, land of the free.
Our forefathers fought for our peace and security.....our wide open spaces and breathtaking countrysides.
It has a lot going for it, probably the best country in the world, and I'd like to see it stay that way.
However, I don't like the Bush administration. Been following the Bush family and the CIA ties since Iran Contra. It stinks. It's corrupt, and it doesn't have the best interests of this nation in mind.
Where political one-upmanship, dominance and control, global corporate takeover by force are concerned........well, if that's the "new America", you can have it. A few families and their corporate henchmen, aided and abetted by special interests, appointees, lawyers and judges all ar scrapping under the table.

>"I think it is because you hate yourself."

Doubtful. I honor myself, and set an example among my friends and the community in which I live.

>"Now it was a bad war because we won 'easily'?"

We haven't "won" yet, we just went in and wupped ass. Our soldiers were mowing down the Iraqis, because they refused to surrender. Some soldiers felt sorry for the carnage.
From the Christian Science Monitor:
"On the battlefield, rather than throwing down their arms, the Iraqi army sometimes fought heroically though hopelessly against the technologically superior U.S. forces. Christian Science Monitor reporter Ann Scott Tyson interviewed U.S. troops with the 3rd Infantry Division who were deeply troubled by their task of mowing down Iraqi soldiers who kept fighting even in suicidal situations.

“Even as U.S. commanders cite dramatic success in the three-week-old war, many look upon the wholesale destruction of Iraq’s military and the killing of thousands of Iraqi fighters with a sense of regret,” Tyson reported. “They voice frustration at the number of Iraqis who stood their ground against overwhelming U.S. firepower, wasting their lives and equipment rather than capitulating as expected.”

“They have no command and control, no organization,” said Brig. Gen. Louis Weber. “They’re just dying.”

Commenting upon the annihilation of Iraqi forces in one-sided battles, Lt. Col. Woody Radcliffe said, “We didn’t want to do this. Even a brain-dead moron can understand we are so vastly superior militarily that there is no hope. You would think they would see that and give up.”

In one battle around Najaf, U.S. commanders ordered air strikes to kill the Iraqis en masse rather than have U.S. soldiers continue to kill them one by one. “There were waves and waves of people coming at them with AK-47s, out of this factory, and they (the U.S. soldiers) were killing everyone,” said Radcliffe. “The commander called and said, ‘This is not right. This is insane. Let’s hit the factory with close air support and take them out all at once.’”

This slaughter of young Iraqis troubled front-line U.S. soldiers. “For lack of a better word, I felt almost guilty about the massacre,” one soldier said privately. “We wasted a lot of people. It makes you wonder how many were innocent. It takes away some of the pride. We won, but at what cost?” [Christian Science Monitor, April 11, 2003]

Hear that Ed? "THIS IS INSANE". All we did was rush in where fools fear to tread, and pushed ourselves upon them. Some are liberated. Most are resentful.
And their country will be in turmoil for many years to come.
Hussein and his henchmen were ruthless. And I won't deny it, but listening to you say we "won" is the biggest bunch of horse exhaust I have ever heard.
(With thanks to Tom B. for that one.)