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Why should our military and president deserve respect if they don't earn it? Respect should not be inherent in the position. Should a military man who rapes and tortures be respected? Of course not. Depending on your political and moral views, Richard Nixon and/or Bill Clinton may not be deserving of your respect either, but they were both presidents
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I do see a point here. Thinking about it further, I found Clinton to be an embarrassment to our country. So, I'll concede that point.
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Why should the opinion of others be shoved in MY face and disrupt my day? We are at war, and there are lots of people who are of the opinion that we should be . . . that is shoved in my face every time I turn on the TV or go to Greekchat or pick up a paper or whatever. I will agree with you that those protesters who are interrupting traffic seem to be sort of . . . anti-productive, but hey, not everybody who is anti-war is out there lying down in front of traffic. That's just a small amount of us.
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Stating how one feels is always acceptable, but screaming and being disruptive is not. That's the "shoved in my face" reference. And the ones who are disrupting people's days by taking up the streets and such are the ones I'm referring to when I say they disrupt lives.
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What is being achieved? People are being allowed to state their opinions, exercising the freedom of speech, one of the great things about America and other free countries. The world is being shown that not all of America agrees with war. And the president is being shown just how much of America disagrees with him.
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I would think that intelligent people around the world already know that not all of America agrees with the war. That's a given. And the President has to do what's right, not what's popular. If he wanted to do something with a political agenda, he wouldn't have ever gone to war.