When you protest the war, it's not the speaking up against the government that is anti-american, it's the condemnation of the actions of our fine men and women over fighting this war. You ruin the moral of the troops and you hurt the families and the communities of the troops. Nobody is going to agree with the government 100% of the time, and if you don't, that's fine. But your protests are not supporting our troops. These fine individuals are over there fighting for their country, while their country is over here fighting against them. *That* is what is unpatriotic.
If your against the war, fine, say your against the war, write letters to your congressman, representatives, and president. But don't do anything that's going to affect our troops, their families, and their communities. They're more scared than you'll ever be, and no one wants the war over with more than them. When the protestors are out there, stopping traffic downtown Chicago and in California, what is that helping? The time to make your voice against the war has passed. Support your troops now, let's hope it's a quick war and the troops come home soon. When the troops are home, then you raise hell against the administration, move to impeach, whatever...
It's funny though, how liberals can accept all the great offerings of this country, the welfare, the freedoms and liberties, but can't support the actions that ensure those liberties and freedoms for more people, including those in Iraq, in the future. They enjoy the security of this nation, but can't support the troops who bring it to them.
The blog you trackback'd to doesn't allow comments, so I put it here.
I have to disagree. Protesting the war says nothing about the troops themselves, and I hope they know that. I have a lot of respect for the people who are there and have never said otherwise. I don't have any respect for why we are there though. If America wanted to free all repressed people that would be one thing, but that is not what we are doing. We are not in this war to free the Iraqi people, and if you think we are than you are naive. It just happens to be a good side effect. If that was are motivation, we should have done it years ago, and I don't mean the Gulf war. We don't even know who we will turn the country over to once we are finished, and America has a bad history with things like this. Let me say that I'm against the war not because I don't like wars, rather, I don't like wars without UN approval. I don't think it is in the best interest of our country to spawn more anti-american thought which is what is happening.
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When you protest the war, it's not the speaking up against the government that is anti-american, it's the condemnation of the actions of our fine men and women over fighting this war. You ruin the moral of the troops and you hurt the families and the communities of the troops. Nobody is going to agree with the government 100% of the time, and if you don't, that's fine. But your protests are not supporting our troops. These fine individuals are over there fighting for their country, while their country is over here fighting against them. *That* is what is unpatriotic.
If your against the war, fine, say your against the war, write letters to your congressman, representatives, and president. But don't do anything that's going to affect our troops, their families, and their communities. They're more scared than you'll ever be, and no one wants the war over with more than them. When the protestors are out there, stopping traffic downtown Chicago and in California, what is that helping? The time to make your voice against the war has passed. Support your troops now, let's hope it's a quick war and the troops come home soon. When the troops are home, then you raise hell against the administration, move to impeach, whatever...
It's funny though, how liberals can accept all the great offerings of this country, the welfare, the freedoms and liberties, but can't support the actions that ensure those liberties and freedoms for more people, including those in Iraq, in the future. They enjoy the security of this nation, but can't support the troops who bring it to them.
The blog you trackback'd to doesn't allow comments, so I put it here.
Posted by: Mike at March 25, 2003 10:53 AM
I have to disagree. Protesting the war says nothing about the troops themselves, and I hope they know that. I have a lot of respect for the people who are there and have never said otherwise. I don't have any respect for why we are there though. If America wanted to free all repressed people that would be one thing, but that is not what we are doing. We are not in this war to free the Iraqi people, and if you think we are than you are naive. It just happens to be a good side effect. If that was are motivation, we should have done it years ago, and I don't mean the Gulf war. We don't even know who we will turn the country over to once we are finished, and America has a bad history with things like this. Let me say that I'm against the war not because I don't like wars, rather, I don't like wars without UN approval. I don't think it is in the best interest of our country to spawn more anti-american thought which is what is happening.
Posted by: Thomas Noe at March 25, 2003 02:18 PM