quote:Originally posted by jaime:
Resa, best post of the whole thread!!!
I thank you and I haven't even been in the service. But I am smart enough to know what freedoms we've been given because of our troops, and what it meant and the cost to get those freedoms. If anyone here thinks our government is so bad, we'll gladly let you try any other government. (oh say try one in the Middle East) You would be running back to your cozy couch so you can berate the very government that gave the right to be disrespectful (read: HATE)to it to the point of idiocity!!!
Try that in Syria/Iran/Korea.
I think my point is made.
jaime, actually your point is NOT made... This is MY country, and I think the government has dropped the ball on so many things, especially in the last 2 years, and I am not alone either, 2/3 of Americans see it and know it.
I totally support our troops, but right now, they are not fighting for OUR freedom, because that is not OUR country, they are doing their jobs, that the gov't sent them to do.
I am proud of our troops, and support them whole-heartedly, but the cause that we are in right now has NO justification, and our boys/girs are DIEING.
You want to ignore what is going on in our Nation, be my guest, but thank God I am part of the 2/3rds that SEE that we have to make a change, or we will go under.
So, see... your point is ONLY made to the 1/3 of the people who don't or won't open their eyes and SEE what is going on...
This is not the way our Country is supposed to run, we found that out back in the 60,s and 70,s... and how we have done a complete circle I dont know, but we have, and now we have to work doubly hard at digging out... AGAIN.
OHHH, and another point, this is MY country, and I do NOT have to try another, I just want to strive to make ours better. That comment is a cop-out, just to try to hush up those who dont believe the way you do... Been there, heard ALL that before.