I had kind of stepped out of this because some people were getting upset, but since it doesn't seem to matter to
others...
Critabe said:
Well, I don't think it is there to send in to take out a dictator under false pretenses which is costing the American taxpayers more than a billion dollars per month.
My favorite support our troops b/s happens to be:
AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE
BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE
THANK YOU
Selective patriotism? You only support your country when it suits your needs?
Holly3278 said:
First of all, how can someone seem "pretty anti-America or anti-Bush" from just three words??
If you read any of Daidhaid's posts, you'd get that feeling. The person you're assaulting probably read a few posts and decided to confront him. I had the same thoughts myself, though I guess I actually reached some sort of understanding. Besides, Daidhaid claims to be a vet, and since I'm not going to accuse him of lying I'll afford him the respect that comes with having served his country. Even if he is a Liberal.
So lay off.
Second of all, perhaps that was a bumper sticker saying.
It probably is. Liberals have a lot of sayings about Conservatives, most of them insulting. But before you think I'm saying your that kind of person, I'm not.
Third of all, his bumper sticker just might be supportive to those soldiers who went to war against their own moral judgements!
If Bill Clinton had been my commander in chief, and had ordered me to say...go to Bosnia or take part in those ridiculous bombings in Sudan, I would have done it. I don't like Bill Clinton as a person or for his morals, but he is still my commander-in-chief (or would have been in this scenario), I'll give him the respect due his station and I knew what could happen when I joined the military...we might actually...
fight people.
Fourth of all, the argument "if you are American, and you hate it so much here, why not just leave?" is one of most rediculous arguments I have ever heard! I am a United States citizen and I don't agree with the war but I am not going to leave! I'd rather stick around and write letters to my senators and such and try to get things turned around to something that I like better! America is about Democracy, not if you don't like it you can leave!
Honestly, from people trying to change "In God We Trust", calling all Southerners stupid, or all Conservatives racist, or gay, or dumb, and everything else that gets hurled at patriotic, right-wing/conservative Republicans, I'm tempted to say it too. Appearently majority rules doesn't matter anymore; but this is what happens when you start taking prayer out of schools. Give people an inch and they try to take a mile.