Read this question Liberals and Conservatives alike.?

Question

Why is it that people feel the need to bad mouth the government and its leaders all the time. Most people have no idea what is really happining in the wars that the USA is involved in around the world besides what the media tells you. I have been to Iraq and Afganistan and can tell you that you dont see any of the good that is done the media only tells you the worst. The fact that you are currently able to sit at the computer you are at and talk about your opinion and not have your family exicuted like what was happining in Iraq before we stoped it. Means that the US policy in place is working. Yes we have to be rough at times but in the words of a wise person. "You sleep soundly at night because rough men stand ready to do violance on your behalf." The world is not pretty what you see in america is bliss compared to the rest of the world. What I want to see on this post is why you are proad to be an American Libs and Cons alike USE YOUR RIGHT TO SPEACH TO SUPPORT YOUR GOVERNMENT.

Question is why are you happy to be an american. I know the spellind sux I droped out of high school to join the Army. Cant very well sit in class while my fellow americans are killed in there office buildings.

To enlightenment Have you ever done anything to deserve your right to opinion or are you speaking from ignorance. In Iraq I saw a young boy and his mother whos father and husband had been tortured to death for speaking out aginst sad man hussain much like you did. The american policy there is help first and fight later but you wouldnt know that siting in your warm house with all these rights would you. Go get experiance for your self. The only good is knowledge and the only evil IGNORANCE.

To dinodino: So I take it you get your info of the internet wich is always right like the time I found on the internet the story of how bush eats human babys and practices dark arts in the oval office right. Or how about geting your info from a massive spy net that might work if you dont take your meds. If you where over there and didnt see any good its because you are most likly a sick **** that focuses on the killing and never tryed to help the people around you. The good I saw was the humanitarian work that we did in Iraq and all the people that where so happy to see us that they offered us things like food and hugged us with tears in there eyes. Has the media ever covered us passing food out to starving children or helping to rebuild houses for orphins and widows. No they would rather show us blowing up human beings. Which I will point out that we are not the ones killing innocent people. I am not saying dont speak your mind I am saying learn what you are talking about. EXPERIANCE!

Answer 1

You have no clue whatsoever how the right of free speech was won in the United States.

Read some history, read alternative press as well as the Corporate Media and it is clear that the bad far outweighs the good.

If you are a total blind flag-waver, you should at least listen to your elected officials who will tell you the failures of the attack on Iraq and why they are scrambling for a way to get out with dignity.

Lib or Con (what a foolish dichotomy that is) doesn't matter. The Imperialist agenda you purposely ignore will come to haunt you someday. So now you have a choice to either face the truth or live the rest of your life in denial.

I know people who have done both. The ones who face the facts live a happier existence I promise.

* addendum - Well, I'll answer you. I, unlike you, do not like to compare what one person does to another because I think everyone does things in thier own way. I can tell you I, like you, have done a great deal of service for this country. Much of it I actually regret because what I did was not reciprocated, the promise was found out to be a lie. I love the American people, but am intelligent enough to distinguish that from the United States Government. The Government lies. It lied to me in my service and lied to many in Croatia, many in Slovania and sureprise it bombed some very innocent people in Serbia! So you should wake up and smell the coffee pal.
Investigate the Labor Movement, the Abolitionist Movement, The American Indian Movement, Eugene Debbs, Ceasar Chavez, John Brown, William Sloan Coffin, Saul Alinsky, Susan B. Anthony, and many other Americans. There is a narrative of America that is one to be proud of. If you keep focussed on the myths, the absolute decpetion that actually thinks we have brought "freedom to Iraq" and that "democracy" and purple fingers all that is the way, the answer... you are a dupe. There is a long history of that in the USA too. Killer Bees, Y2K, Anthrax scare, on and on... I'd imagine you fell for all those, as fed to you, by those who seek to control you. Be an American; develop an independent mind.

What exactly brought you to Iraq? What outfit were you with and when?

Answer 2

It is an absurd notion that Iraq was a threat to the American way of life or that my freedom to sit in front of my computer was effected by it. My family danger of being executed like in Iraq -- where do you come up with this bullshit! You obviously have no clue to what is going on in Iraq -- 100 people per day currently being blown up, executed etc. As far as Afghanistan -- the Taliban is still there, they are producing more Heroin than ever, and the government only has control in Kabul.

The idea that the media only tells us the worst is tripe. The current government totally screwed up in Iraq and I know this because I don't get my information from the TV.

Why don't you tell us all the great things that are happening in those places since you allegedly have been there?

Answer 3

I don't understand why so many people who proudly claim to love our country and it's freedoms also want anybody who disagrees with them to leave the country. Does it occur to any of you that some of us love this country and what it stand for enough to want to keep it true to its word? If our administration does things that go against American values, we should not speak out? You sound more like you would have enjoyed living under Saddam Hussein than in a free nation. Supporting your government doesn't mean supporting all its decisions.

What is the good being done in Iraq? I'm not condemning the troops who are over there following orders and doing their best to carry out a difficult job. I will, however, condemn the administration that put those troops in harm's way under false pretenses.

I know, I know. We were attacked. I've got an idea, why not respond to the people who attacked us? We sort of did that in Afghanistan, but let Osama get away. Then the right turn into Iraq? This was the plan of this administration from Day 1. They used 9/11 as an excuse to do exactly what they planned to do on Day 1. That's unAmerican. We should speak out against that. It's our patriotic duty to do so.

BTW, how many of you 'support our government' people did so when Clinton was president?

In the words of G. K. Chesterton, "Saying 'My country right or wrong' is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' "

Answer 4

It doesn't sound to me like you've been to Iraq or Afghanistan. You state people are no longer being executed there. Well hell, what about the 3000 american soldiers and the 40,000 Iraqis that have died? Ask them if their lives are better now. Or ask their families.
Iraq is now in chaos, a fullblown civil war. Our president lied to the American people about his reasons for waging war on Iraq. No WMD's were ever found. Big deal, we caught Hussein. But Bin Laden, the perpetrator on 9/11 is still free. The Taliban was not in Iraq before we started the war, but now they have a foothold there, as well as a resurgance in Afghanistan. Three thousand young american are dead and we have nothing to show for it. We were sleeping in our beds just fine before the war, since Hussein porved no threat.
Also, much of the world now hates us and Bush has made it far more dangerous for Americans travelling abroad because of this. Even former administration officials like Colin Powell had to get out of his Cabinet because they couldn't stomach his lies any longer.
And you have the sack to ask why we complain?
Grow up. What outfit were you in, anyway?

Answer 5

You said, "...you don't see any of the good that is done the media only tells you the worst."

Unless that media is Fox News, in which case we only see what the Bush administration wants us to see, and it only tells us the good.

Tell me: since you've been there, what's more important: the fact that we're pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the reconstruction efforts and the Iraqi civilians (who are being killed by terrorists and insurgents at a rate of 100 a day) love us, or the fact that almost 3,000 of our servicemen and women have died in the line of duty to go to war with a country that was not an imminent threat to the United States, and did not attack us on September 11, 2001?

About how many more of our troops do you think have to die before this war becomes wrong?

Answer 6

I don't support the government, because though the intent and notion is there, and it's generally good, the execution is HORRIBLE, PATHETIC, DANGEROUSLY INCOMPETENT.

That being said, God bless those rough men willing to do violence on my behalf, for they do protect my rights and I am forever indebted to them and support them 110%. I am an American, and for 99% of the time, I can truly say better someone else is attacked or imperiled, than one American soul. We forget what we have, we get hopped up on our liberties and pseudo-intellect but forget we're a mistake or two away from having the muzzle of a tank gun right in our grill. That's not paranoia, that's real.

I am proud of fighting for liberty, EVERYONE's liberty. I am proud for helping Shi'ites throw off the shackles of Ba'athist despotic pigs. I am proud for helping Afghans live Taliban Free and revisit the world outside their rugged country, where technology and medicine and FREEDOM are standards not fantasies.

If you are unhappy with America, and for which she stands, you will never be happy, with any other man, mission or policy. We represent the highest form of social cooperation, education and human advancement. We exhibit the most tolerance and compassion, and the least compulsive behavior of any sovereign state on earth.

I agree, we should be more proud of our accomplishments as a nation and should work together, not apart, to ensure our nation survives and thrives. To relinquish your responsibility to do so, calls into question your privilege and right to be called and call yourself, an American.

Answer 7

I f I weren't a polite person I'd tell you exactly what I think of your presumptions.
So I can only say that you probably repeat your gouvernment's silly propaganda because if you did not believe it you would have to feel very bad about what you are doing.

Yes the US policy is working. They got a civil war going which will give them an excuse for staying in Iraq until the oil runs out.
Then they will leave the people there to a totalitarian Muslim regime.

Answer 8

I agree with you 100%.

I think people are more content to just sit and believe whatever is on TV, rather than go and find out for themseleves the truth. And lets face it the "news" is more "infotainment" than news.

Journalists have an agenda and are not afraid to pass their agenda off as the news--regadeless of what they say. And in the news business ratings rule, so whatever will garner ratings is what is shown.

I don't agree with everything the government does, but I do realize our system, with all of its flaws (and really, what government doesn't have its flaws) is better than the alternative. And at least in this country we have the oppurtunity to vote and make our opinions heard. The first amendment to the Constitution allows us to petition the government. Having lived in a communist country for a time, I find this right most valuable.

This is a great question, thanks for asking it.

Answer 9

There are too many reasons that I am proud to be an American, so the one I will use on this question is that I am proud to be an American because of the United States Military that protects us. Keep up the good work, ignore the press.

USAF Veteran

Answer 10

just stop.

i am grateful that i can sit at a computer and write nasty things about the president if i so choose... but when you assume that i do so out of boredom you do us a disservice. i come by my opinions honestly, just as you have. i sleep soundly at night, dreaming of a future where it is not necessary for rough men to keep vigil over me.

do not keep me from enacting this vision, i will use my speech for the things that i hold dear, and trust you are doing the same. why do you require my silence, can our nation not stand on her merits?