Okay, enough already with the "God Bless America" routine at the baseball games. I guess it was understandable that we would feel the need to be united after the angst surrounding 9/11. But we are no longer a country united. GW has seen to that by his invasion of Iraq that has left us as perhaps the world's most hated nation since the days of Stalin!
Plus, there is a fine line between patriotism and nationalism. We are getting dangerously close to the kind of paranoid nationalism seen in the McCarthy era, IMHO!
Maybe I am risking future deportation to a right wing gulag to suggest the following: Bring back Take Me Out to the Ballgame! To me this seems more American than feeling like you have to stand up for two nationalistic anthems at a ball game to be considered a loyal American! After all isn't what America is about more about freedom than flag saluting?
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I recently returned from Iraq Devistaded to realise how much crap is being fed to the American people.
I am not American myself but I witnessed some graphic desplays of violations of the rules of engagement.
Three men walked out of a building unarmed and where shot down by 2 US marine's who then began to cheer and laugh about their kills. They wonder why Everyone hates them? They need only think about what they have done.
I have footage of a plane dropping a bomb onto a crowd of (Civillians) and then laughing about it.
Their actions in this war can only be told as inhumane. You called Suddam a murderer hypocrits
Why post anonymously when you say you have all these facts...
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