"I love America, and I can't stand quietly by while the land of peace and liberty is being destroyed.

I love the America of the Constitution and limited government - not the America of the Patriot Act and the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security.

I love the America that Washington and Jefferson said should be far removed from all the age-old quarrels of Europe and Asia, while trading benevolently with people all over the world - not the America that has troops in a hundred countries while our own government prohibits us from peaceful trading with dozens of countries."

I love the America of the Constitution and limited government - not the
America of the Patriot Act and the Orwellian Department of Homeland
Security.

I agree

Well-said: not the America that has troops in a hundred countries while our own government prohibits us from peaceful trading with dozens of countries

Yes I was once very PRO USA. not any more. I can't understand why Bush was elected twice. I think that he is the terrorist.

America rules the world - by force. And that's ironic. Because for as long as I can remember, conservatives have been railing against the threat of world government. But now we actually have a form of world government - a government run by George Bush and enforced by the American military - and most conservatives are all for it.

Good point! We make what we try to prevent.

yeah, because after all in a totalitarian state that everybody seems to think America is, dissent like this would put you in jail. In fact, try criticizing the Chinese government from China on the internet.

Oh yeah, that's right. Its not allowed. Holding demonstrations against the government in China gets you run over by a tank. In America - well assuming you can find anybody who will actually get up off the couch it will get you - looked at funny.

Now China will be nice and let funny athletes come and perform, but nobody gets to actually talk about - Tibet, human rights, religion, .....

And I'm sure that is somehow all George W Bush's fault.

because after all in a totalitarian state that everybody seems to think America is,

So just turn an eye to the parts of America are eroding away? Don't complain till its too late? Bush certainly helped us along the path, didn't he?

Suspended habius corpus
Supported torture
Invaded the wrong country
Lied to America in order to invade that country

shall I go on?