how the hell can you.....?

Question

how in the hell can you as an american go on t.v. or to a foreign land or give interviews bashing our president and countryand say you are patriotic

Answer 1

Just to make headlines. They dont know what they are talking about. Even though they might disagree with the pres. I would not go on an Interview and say damaging things about our country even though i felt like it. My opin. keep your mouth shut where other lands are concerned.There is no reason to bash your own country or Pres. just cause you think its the right thing to do.

Answer 2

yet the right and conservative republicans can't seem to let go of former President Clinton who by the way left office with the nation having a sizable Surplus! and without alienating the majority of the free world...frittering away all the goodwill derived from the horrible attack on us on 9/11/01 and involving us in the wrong war at the wrong time and in the wrong place...by the way has anyone checked Afghanistan lately opium poppy crops at a record level and the Taliban resurgent....and by the way in case you might be concerned Osama Bin Laden is still walking around as yet not in custody.... hey but if you feel the President is just completely wrong on nearly every front you are un-patriotic...sad I fought for the average Americans right to disagree with the people in power whatever affiliation they might have

Answer 3

It called exercising your First Amendment rights, Freedom of speech and Freedom of expression. This is what makes us a free country, the fact that we can express disagreement about what our government is doing and not be thrown in prison or killed for it. Exercising these rights is patriotic.

Answer 4

A true patriot questions the leadership of the country if he/she feels there is a problem. Blindly following someone in the wrong direction is a mistake.

Answer 5

To all those detractors on this forum, wake up and smell what
you've been shoveling.

I wont say that you are ignorant, ignorance can be fixed. What
you've got is unfixable. It's called stupidity.

Saddam was, and would be today, training terrorists. We should
have taken his butt out the first time around. We wouldn't have
this trouble now.

But it was people like you who made us stop.

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!!!!

Answer 6

Bashing your government has nothing to do with being patriotic.

Answer 7

We need more of it, by people who have the courage to say that those that represent us do not love this country, its people, or care for our future. This is as patriotic as you can get.

Answer 8

The so-called "war on terror" fought as the war on Iraq is taking place in a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. Iraq posed no threat to the United States except in the minds of those requiring and/or fabricating the reasons for war. Yes, , let us talk of the sickness then. A first strike, preventive war of choice is sick. Bombing a country through "Shock and Awe" because it was expedient to have access to our desperately needing its oil is sick. Adopting and using a policy of extreme rendition where the U.S. government sanctions and fosters the disappearance of people to nations where gross torture is allowed so that surrogates can do the dirty work for it is sick. Lying to Congress, the US people and the world in order to justify going to war is sick. Murdering complete Iraqi families by dropping 1,000 pound bombs on them is sick. Breaking the standard by which human decency is maintained, at least in part, during war, i.e., the Hague Conventions of 1889 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and the Nuremberg Conventions adopted by the United Nations December 11, 1945, is sick. Unloading hundreds of tons of depleted uranium is sick. Dropping cluster bombs is sick. Unexploded cluster bomb bomblets becoming land mines taking off children's limbs is sick. Killing as you would call them precious unborn fetuses by poisoning them with radioactive dust is sick. Our youth dying for the ruling elite and rich man's war for profit is sick. Let us reiterate once again, that going to war with Iraq had nothing to do with any threat from Iraq and it had nothing to do with 9-11. It had everything to do with lying about weapons of mass destruction, lying about aluminum tubes, lying about yellow-cake uranium, lying about mobile biological and chemical weapons labs, lying to the United Nations, lying to the world. That, , is sick. And, it is this sickness that you would project onto those who criticize you and the sickness of this regime. The fact that anyone else, or faction, or nation, may be sicker is not justification for excusing this regime's sickness.

The excessive inability of the Bush regime to face the reality of their behavior and solve the problems they created in their sick war of choice contributes to their psychosis. While Rumsfeld suppresses and rationalizes, intellectualizing the slaughtering of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and over thousands (a more likely death toll) of US troops, you , find scapegoats within those who want to stop the insanity. You, are the pot calling the kettle black. Just who is the sick one ? For, if you and this administration are not, you are far worse. You are evil.

Answer 9

I believe it is called freedom of speech and as I understand it that is what America was built on.

Answer 10

Anyone who does that is not a patriot. Some people are just good liars.