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Old 01-11-2007, 07:50 AM   #3 (permalink)
shakran
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United States- (Personal feeling)I love it, will always love it. I will show my love for my country for flying my flag, speaking the official language of English, paying my taxes, obeying the laws, and protecting it with my life if need be.
English isn't our official language because we don't have one, but anyone offended because you speak english here is an idiot. I also don't see how it would offend someone if you pay your taxes, follow the law, and defend the country. Good on ya

George W. Bush- (Fact) current U.S President. Elected by majority vote according to the Electoral College.[/quote]

This is actually a matter for dispute in both elections. In fact in the first term he was not elected at all, but appointed by the supreme court. His second term may or may not have involved ballot cheating - we can't ever know because the electronic voting machines (that the CEO of the manufacturer promised would "deliver the state of Ohio for President Bush") are too easy to hack and don't have a paper trail.

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(Personal Belief)The troops have made their choice to join the military at one point or another.
Yes, and if i were in the military I, like most of the soldiers out there, would have joined because I feel defending my country is an important thing to do. I would not have joined so that I could help my country invade other countries that aren't doing anything to us - in fact this, in MY personal opinion, is anathema to everything the US should stand for.

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They are fulfilling a contract that they by their various reasons, a choice that they made. They are now fulfilling the orders of their commanders, the Chief of which, by the laws of America, happens to be the President.
Quite true - which is why we don't hold animosity toward the soldiers for the situation we're in now - - - that animosity is directed squarely at the idiot in charge. While this war is astonishingly like Vietnam in that we should never have gone there and now that we ARE there we're running it like a bunch of monkeys, the one main difference is that the soldiers are NOT being maligned by the general population.
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