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Is it necessary to always be patriotic - even if your country is doing bad things?
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Gonna need your definition of each of those words. Patriotic and Bad.

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I like Waugs, if he ran for office, I believe I would vote for him. Until he did something against our will...I just confused myself!

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As an example, like slaughtering your children in another country for no valid reason is being patriotic?

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In your opinion Odessaphiles. You would undoubtedly been in your glory during WWII.

1. WWII was necessary for our children to be involved in.

2. I believe, but could be wrong, that Iraq never attacked us.

3. I believe, but could be wrong, that GWB is the worse thing that has happened to our country in my 51 years on this planet.

Right On!!

You are right, you could be WRONG! :)

Wouldn't be the first time. I tend to doubt it will be the last, but I'm working on it....

Please do not call me a liberal, as I am not one. Thank you.

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I wish he WOULD do the job!! We could go back and forth on this forever. IMO, he is the most incompetent president that has ever misguided MY effing country in MY LIFETIME. Maybe you and your fellow lemmings should not follow blindly in the repeated missteps of this idiot. It is time for the citizens of this country to shake the tree of government and let all the bad apples, Republicans AND Democrats fall to the ground. And you're privy to all the secret crap he gets each day? Do you think that if you screwed up at work every day, for 7 effing years, you'd still be employed?

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and this is how he spins it to the public - story just broke today: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?hp

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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

H. L. Mencken

I protest my government's bad actions. I am a patriot 24/7.

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Gee, H.L. Mencken, a persistent and constant critic of all things American, really doesn't make your case, at least not to me.

Your problem, not mine. Mine is the country I care about first. It is the only one in which I have the right to expect that it conform to an acceptable standard of behavior. When it does not,I, if I am to call myself a patriot, I am REQUIRED to criticize. Any one who finds criticism of one's government unacceptable is, at heart, anti-freedom.

Agree!!

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How about Teddy Roosevelt, Mike? Does he make the case (at least for you)?

I knew that would stir all you Bush Haters up. But, I hate to burst your bubble, but I never have suggested that we do not criticize our government officials when they do wrong. I just commented that I didnt consider a H.L. Mencken, a constant hater of all things American, as a source that would sway my opinion.

I note there are several commenters hereon that never have anything good to say about my country and to those fellas I say, stick it up your arse.

I note some gutless wonders had my comments about H.L. Mencken moderated down. Cowardly.

Whammo!!!

A true "patriot" takes his government to task when it has taken his / her country in the wrong direction.

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Well Said!!

And praises and supports it when it does well. Apparently you have not seen anything good.

"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." --Teddy Roosevelt

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Iraq didn't attack us on 9-1-1

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But it did attack and slaughter the Kuwaiti and was about to invade Egypt. Both countries sought the assistance of the USA and we gave it. We disposed of Saddam's army and finally Saddam himself, but in the vacuum came two warring factions who have made it difficult to repair Iraq's infrastructure. But, if we don't develop a wide yellow streak down our governmental backs, we'll take care of that situation too.