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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:22 PM Original message |
Would you lay down your life for your country? |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'd bail first. |
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William769 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Depends on why I would be laying down my life for my Country. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. not with this leadership |
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Richard D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Nope |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. Um........... no. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. I understand what you said, and I think if more actually read your post... |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. . |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. Not this country. |
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deadlikeme13 (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Most people dont even know the Bill of Rights, the ignorant f**kers! |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Is that a question on the "no kid left behind" test? |
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nancyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. Not willingly. |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. No. |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. The ONLY way I would do it would be if another country invaded mine, and harmed the citizenry. |
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deadlikeme13 (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. I'll second that. Now way will I fight for the Bushco, Inc. boys |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. Today? No. |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. For a country full of people who put more thought into selecting |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'd devote my life to improving it, as difficult as the right wing has made that option... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. In either case, if our people were under attack, yes. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
15. My "country" is an artificial construct. Needs further defining. |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
19. yes |
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Kucinich4America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
20. For MY country, possibly. |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. Husb2Sparkly> knowing what you now know, would you...? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Obviously I've thought about this or I would not have asked the question ...... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
23. No. And, I wouldn't kill for it either. |
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mahatmakanejeeves (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
24. You mean, to save it **from** the Bushes? |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
25. Hell no. I believe in humanity, and that patriotism is a disease, a coercive tool |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. "Patriotism is the most foolish of passions, and the passion of fools." Schopenhauer |
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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
27. Frankly? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
28. No. My husband would, but I wouldn't. I won't die to preserve a way of life |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
30. I thought the idea was to make the *other* sumbitch lay down his life |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
31. Only if junior & his dick went first! |
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warren pease (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
32. Not for lines on a map... |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
33. There are certainly conditions in which I would do that. |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. moral depravity and hypocrisy |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
35. Uh.. no.. |
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formerrepuke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
36. For 'the country', maybe; for dubious political reasons...HELLS no!! |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
37. I remember when gracie slick said "I would rather my country die for me" |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
38. NO ! I wouldn't know what I was fighting for with all the lies . |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
39. Just a stray thought: civil rights workers/marchers did, workers' rights folks did. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
40. For my friends, my family, my beliefs? Sure. For a stranger? Maybe. For my country? Not a chance. nm |
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michreject (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
41. yes...............nt |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 05:20 AM Response to Original message |
42. Only if it was being invaded... |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 06:16 AM Response to Original message |
43. There are principles I would die for. Patriotism is not one of them. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 07:55 AM Response to Original message |
44. It would really depend on the circumstances |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
45. Not for Iraq or the oil companies or the whims of dictators... |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
46. No, I would not lay down my life for Bushworld, although |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
47. Depends what you mean by |
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