Originally posted by whaaa
Thank you, as I spent 4 years in the USAF but that dosen't mean I have to give up critical thinking and just follow the party line.
Just because you don't agree with some of the comments on ATS; I feel it is unfair to lable it as hateful, left wing rhetoric.
Check this out...
Whaaa I thank you as well for your service to our country. You are a hero as well. As far as giving up critical thinking and following a party line;
that is not what I am promoting. Nothing that I said in my initial statement is indicative of that. Let me tell you, I served in the U.S. military
as well. I know there are some people there who are less than honorable and do less than honorable things. However, the vast majority of our men and
women in uniform are our finest.
What angers me about some people on this site is the fact that they label the U.S. military as "corrupt", "stupid", "uneducated"...but it is not
just the military they attack. It is my president as well. In this country you do not have to agree with or even like the president. You don't
have to agree with his policies either. But labeling the President of the United States as a war criminal, "stupid", and "corrupt" is just over
the top. It simply shows the lack of respect for that office that those people have. Some people on this site even go as far as to equate Bush with
Hitler. Some go even further to say that Bush is worse than Hitler. I am outraged by such hateful extremism. My grandmother was just a young
teenage girl at the start of WWII. She came from a rather large family...they were farmers. She had 9 brothers and 2 sisters. One of her brothers,
Davey, was adopted when he was a baby...he is Jewish. When the U.S. entered WWII, 8 of her brothers joined the military and went to Europe. By the
end of WWII, only 3 of those original 8 had come home. Hitler took 5 of them. My family has paid a great price in the effort to defeat the Nazi's.
So perhaps now you understand why I get upset when someone equates my president to the incarnate evil of Adolf Hitler. There is one other thing,
Davey was captured and spent time in a Nazi POW camp. He has had trouble all of his life because of the things he saw and what was done to him...
Criticism and debate are good. I encourage it and have served alone with you to defend those rights. But the vile hate mongering that is typical of
many, many leftists on this site lacks any sense of class, intelligence, or basic human decency. What hypocrites are they who claim to be
compassionate, tolerant, and moral when they spew unsubstantiated hateful extremism. I've often thought; if Bush was one hundredth as bad as they
claim, they wouldn't be around anymore to spew their hate. Therefore, Bush must not be as rotten a guy as they contend. Shame on them!
I don't care if the President is Republican, Democrat, Liberal, or Conservative; no-one should be saying the things about him, or eventually her,
that is being said about Bush. I happen to think that Clinton was one of the worst Presidents this country has ever seen, but the man still deserves
the respect and the honor he deserves. After all, he was hired by the people for the job. To impugn him is to impugn those who voted him into
office. I simply do not want to go there...I am above such partisan idiocy. However, many of my opponents are not. I hope you are.
[edit on 30-12-2006 by MooneyBravo]
I needed a good laugh! Thanks. I assume you mean "pacifist", but what's a "neo hippie"??? 
Are you sure you don't mean Captain Oblivious? 
What about the drug culture that came out of the 60s.? What about the hippies? What about the
civil unrest? What about the political corruption? What about the anti-patriotic attitude? What about the fact that the "great" individuals from the
sixties spit in our soldiers' face? All of those things came from the sixties!! Yet, you cite the civil rights movement? 
Hmmm... 
