Originally Posted by 4n7hr4x

Patriotism today has lost all of its meaning, we all seem to have a good idea of what patriotism should be, but thanks to the media and this screwed up system we have become a nation of say one thing, do another. A nation of hold other countries to a standard which even we cannot meet. In short, patriotism in America today is nothing more than a steaming pile of BULLSHIT.

Our very constitution has been systematically disassembled all the while in the name of patriotism. Has it really come this far, the brainwashing and propaganda, the stupefying of the masses, has it really come this far that we cheer as they take away our rights? Has it really come to this? We thank and praise this administration for sending our children to Iraq to die, so that defense contractors and their companies can make money driving empty trucks up and down Iraq 24/7 because the Pentagon pays them per trip regardless of what they actually ship. We came into Iraq, which was a relatively stable country at the time and turned it into a war zone, a second Vietnam. Have we really come so far that after suffering through the Vietnam War and after promising the loved ones we lost then that we would learn from our mistakes, what have we done now? We have made fools of ourselves and we allowed those who lost their lives in Vietnam to have in the end died in vain. We go around the world, looking down on other countries who do not have a Democracy, because we have rights and freedoms and we have a perfect system... well where is your perfect system now, where are your rights,... where is your self respect?

I see no patriots, just tyrants and terrorists dressed in the clothes of patriots, hoping to fool the world with their disguise when in the end they only fool themselves.