Reply #2: Wow. Bless these people. This is so sad.

[Tinoire]

I'm one of those people who always gets choked up during the Pledge of Allegiance, Star Spangled Banner, or God Bless America. But now I weep for another reason. When I see our so-called "Commander In Chief" using our beautiful flag, or Mt. Rushmore, or the deck of an aircraft carrier as a backdrop for his lies and propaganda it turns my stomach. And how dare Bush and his cronies dare call anyone who dissents unpatriotic?

Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft, Rice and, I'm sorry to say, Powell are guilty of treason and crimes against humanity. Every time another one of our young people is killed or injured, every time another innocent Iraqi falls, Bush et al's guilt is multiplied. And in their pride and stupidity they aren't even asking the United Nations for help. But then how can they,after thumbing their nose at the entire rest of the planet?

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I too come from a military family - also one that lived under Nazi occupation and resisted - they were what you now call 'terrorists'. I am very angry that people resisting an illegal occupation should be called 'terrorists'. Or anyone fighting back they only way they can against immeasurably superior forces. Or that our soldiers don't know anything about Nuremberg, or the Geneva Conventions, or illegal orders, or the immorality of invading a poor country that never was our enemy. Americans don't seem to have learned much from history - WW II and Vietnam, for starters. Especially Nazi Germany.

I know more than I care to know about how the US treats its veterans - I've been in the trenches fighting for their healthcare - and I am sickened by the devastation from Vietnam, Gulf I, and other illegal brush wars initiated by lies and propaganda. It's hard to feel sorry for Americans who have never had their own homeland bombed into rubble - even your own brain-washed, testosterone-poisoned kids. They should be home in school, not killing other people's kids.