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2006-09-17 03:44:16 · 26 answers · asked by S H I R A Z 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
they know no better. that is what they are taught from their hippie dope smoking parents
2006-09-17 03:51:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Why do some consevative nationalists believe that people who are exercising their Constitutional rights such as holding their government accountable, questioning policy and dissent are treasonous.
Seems to me that Tom Jefferson would look at you in askance.
The short answer is they think so because participation in debate concerning government and policy IS patriotic. - However I agree, being a traitor is not. Traitors would deny others the right to free speech.
You might benefit by reading about Theodore Rosevelt too.
2006-09-17 04:08:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How are we being "traitors"? Because we don't support an ill-advised, ill-planned, ill-conceived war in Iraq? If anything, the war in Iraq has only added fuel to the fire of terrorism. I've been there three times, last time I was there we had to recapture several areas that used to be friendly to us.
Discussing all this with my co-workers during the run up to the invasion, myself and a couple of others, including the Captain I worked for, agreed that Al-Qaeda would move into Iraq and use it as training grounds. Which has happened. We also agreed that we needed more troops on the ground. We also predicted that with Bush's rush to invade, we'd lose to Iran. Which has happened. The current Iraqi government has closer ties to Iran than they do the U.S. even though we have the troops on the ground.
We're losing the war on Terrorism due to Bush's foreign "policy". We need to shift gears and fight this war smarter. With more focus. He tried to persuade Iran and North Korea to givve up their nuclear programs with the invasion of Iraq. For those that haven't noticed, Iran and North Korea sped up their work. North Korea is working out the bugs on the technology to hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon if they so choose.
In no way has Bush's War of Pre-emption made us any safer.
2006-09-17 04:00:00 · answer #3 · answered by darkemoregan 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To quote Teddy Roosevelt:
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
And yeah, he was a REPUBLICAN President. Have a nice day.
2006-09-17 03:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Define being a traitor...
If your definition of a traitor is one who expresses his/her opinion of the US Government (upholding US Constitution, Amendment I) even if it is not a positive opinion...
Then I am guilty as charged...I am a proud, patriotic traitor.
By the way, when the Republican party loses its strangle hold on the US Government, and the conservative start criticizing (remember the Clinton years), I will still stand for your right to criticize.
Heathy debate and the acceptance of differences in opinions are what make this country great!!
2006-09-17 03:55:30 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. G 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think being a traitor is sending 2800 young men and women to their deaths for NOTHING is traitorous.
Bush wanted to be a war president and he knew it would be easy to build a "case" for was against Iraq and that after 9/11 people would be eager to believe his lies.
2006-09-17 04:20:47 · answer #6 · answered by arvis3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Liberals are patriots, speaking out against the fascist tendencies of the conservatives.
2006-09-17 03:59:15 · answer #7 · answered by brian2412 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why do Neocons feel standing up for what you believe in is unpatriotic?!?! It is not just the right but the duty of the American people to stand up to the leaders and question them!
2006-09-17 18:37:24 · answer #8 · answered by trl_666 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it was unpatiotic to disclose the identity of CIA Operative Valerie Plame. Whoever did that should be tried as a War criminal! Wonder if it was a Conservative?
2006-09-17 04:01:11 · answer #9 · answered by The Idealist 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why some people believe that the president is the country?
2006-09-17 05:27:36 · answer #10 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do you ask such stupid questions. Where do you get your information from. If exercising your freedom of speech is in your opinion unpatriotic then you should not speak.
2006-09-17 04:02:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋