Why is it unpatriotic to think that Bush and Cheney are idiots?

Question

I know they are in positions that are to be respected-I am a Vietnam Vet-I think these two have hurt our country so badly-no kids should die for oil-500 billion? We should have taken care of our own -we could flatten those who threaten us-no nation building.

Answer 1

"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."

-- Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star",
May 7, 1918

Answer 2

Omg everyone knows their idiots but i hate ignoramuses that claim the war is for oil. The US government is rich enough to get oil without starting a flipping war. The war was to compensate for Bushes fathers want for a war that he had no reason to have and there was a perfect opportunity to start one exactly when the economy was dropping and the people were against terrorists who were arabs after the 9 eleven attaks.

Answer 3

It's not. It is just what the sheep that follow them want you to think, so that you will be afraid to speak the truth for fear of being unpartiotic.

It is the only way they can still keep 25 % of the people approving of Bush's performance as president.

Answer 4

A true patriot knows that it is his or her obligation to the country and the constitution that is paramount and not blind obsequity to politicians that is important. When politicians behave in a way that you feel is not in the best interest of your country, you certainly have a right and obligation to tell them so. Just remember that they are humans just like yourself and treat them as you would like to be treated. I am no fan of either Bush or Cheney, but when I communicate with them, I treat them with the common courtesy that all humans deserve.

Answer 5

I don't think it's unpatriotic, just intellectually lazy.

It is completely appropriate to question our leaders' policy. This can be done much more effectively if we omit ad hominem attacks. We are all idiots when it comes to one discipline or another, personally I am pathetically weak in the maths and sciences. Attacking someone personally only enflames a debate and diminishes the possibility for a mutually accepting exchange.

Answer 6

If that makes me unpatriotic than I'm the leader of the group.

The whole administration is on an ego trip and they're in it for what they can pass on to big business & their personal causes.

Answer 7

It's not unpatriotic at all...it's actually our duty as Americans to criticize our leaders and to analyze what they are doing to our country, its people, its relationship with the foreign powers.

Answer 8

It's not, just as it's not to think that Pelosi and Reid and the rest of the scum in the Democratic Party are closet Communists.

Answer 9

hey its wrong to think bush and cheney as idiots....they r not as fool as u think they are...they r quite smart. look at the video and u will know that they arent idiots but scary terrorists eating up America.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pd8B-8Au-Wk&mode=related&search=

Answer 10

Hmmm! No, I think not since they support THESE great men. "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - George S. Patton "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know." - Theodore Roosevelt "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing that is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better [people] than himself." - John Stewart Mill "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression." -Web Dubois "The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." - Saint Augustine "And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me and I'll proudly stand next to him to defend her still today, cuz there ain't no doubt I love this land, god bless the USA." - Lee Greenwood "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." - Patrick Henry "Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice." - Spinoza "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." - Frederick Douglass "Tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" - William Wallace "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy "If you want peace prepare for war" - Epitoma Rei Militaris by Vegetius "The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification." - Rep. Tom Delay majority whip