your country

I don't love my country, but I support the troops.

They're not one in the same.

I don't love my country either

but I don't complain about how life sucks

and I support the troops (depending on what their doing and who they're doing it to)
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"When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken."
-Jasper Hale (who I like more than Edward...)

Loving one's country has nothing to do with supporting the troops. I, personally, am ashamed of what our leaders have done, but that doesn't mean I don't care about the hundreds of thousands of soldiers sent to die.

I think the "Support Our Troops" slogan confuses some people. To me, it means supporting the people themselves, those who lay down their lives, not necessarily supporting the reason behind it.

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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

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I support the sacrifice our troops our making, not what they're fighting for.

Does anyone else wish they lived in Australia? Or has anyone else at least imagined that?

/gradster(1)/ - moving to the grooving

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

ok im very oppinated please dont talk about my countrys leaders i have no beef with you so ill just leave you alone

Folks,

I've done something I HATE to do and RARELY do, I unpublished a couple of comments and made a slight edit on another....

Calling people names, using profanity, threatening, etc. is TOTALLY inappropriate on this site. This is a site that is pretty much under the control of you, the young writers, and I let a lot go, but that is not something that I think belongs here at all.

This site is about words. And PARTICULARLY if you are irritated and PARTICULARLY if you disagree with someone else's point of view you need to be civil and respectful. And if you can't, step away from the computer...

And take a deep breath. Thanks so much.

geoff gevalt
ywp director

my poem comment center is not a chat room, please take your chat somewhere else, but if you dont have somewhere else you are welcome to use this

fine but im saying hello i am not chatting simply pasing by

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

yea your ok

i think our country is great but if you look in its past it hasnt been the best one either.

I've been following this blog and it's comments, though staying a safe distance away until now, and i think we should all let this go or someone should make a forum.

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"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
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i think that our country has done some bad things to but not everything is perfect and sometimes you need to break the rules

So you'd advocate breaking the law by those who are meant, voted in, and trusted by an entire nation of more than 330 million American citizens to uphold it?

It's not that everything isn't perfect, it's that the people as a nation trusted these officials with their lives to uphold an efficient and sensible government. Taking the largest surplus in American history and plunging it into the largest national debt in the world in four years as well as strangling relations with the Southern part of our continent doesn't exactly support this.