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Thread #57927   Message #913935
Posted By: toadfrog
19-Mar-03 - 06:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Counter demonstrations to support troops
Subject: RE: BS: Counter demonstrations to support troops
Ms. Beccy:
1. It is not an insult to MY country to say that its leaders' policies are wrong.
2. It is not an insult to servic epeople to say that they are being made to serve a wrong-headed cause. It is not even an insult to the U.S. military to say they are being misused. What you are saying, essentially, is that if any United States President attacks a foreign power, without a declaration of war as the Constitution requires, everyone must agree that he is right or else they are untrue to their country. Think about that. If that is so, any President can become a dictator just by starting more wars. Fascists did things like that.   Up to the time of World War I, or maybe even World War II, every declared war the U.S. was in had really lively domestic opposition. The Korean and Vietnam wars had lively domestic opponents. That's why we call the United States a democracy. And if you do not like the United States, Beccy, perhaps you should go back to Russia or China, or wherever it is you come from.
3. Have you ever contributed to a musical thread? Even once? Why are you here, anyway?