The flag won't protect you; it's in the wrong hands

[dweller]

August 3, 2005—Across my lawn, I can see an American flag waving in my
neighbor's backyard. Mr. Smith (not his name, of course) is a nice man but
he's 95 years old, and I can't take issue with him. I can't tell him that the
sporting of the flag, at this time, is tantamount to saying, "I am a fool.
Traitors run the country in our name. They are taking our money from the
treasury and spending it on a shortcut to world domination through war.

The one in Iraq costs something like $200 million a day. Our troops come
back in coffins no one is allowed to see. The president does not attend their
funerals. He mocks their death with a jest, amusing the press by pretending
to look for elusive weapons of mass destruction (WMD) under his Oval Office
desk. The vice president is planning to nuke Iran should there be another
9/11. Meanwhile, Iraqis, living and dead, swim in a river of boiling blood. If I
fly the flag, I'm saying all this is all right by me. Poor flag, to be raised in a
time like this! Wouldn't it be more respectful to tuck it away for more
honorable service in better times?

Better times? Time to stop fooling myself. The idiocy is contagious.

When were there better times? Since the birth of this nation, it has engaged
in more than 200 armed interventions around the globe.

much more here:http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/080305Bohne/080305bohne.html

dp

[greekspeak]

1. Excellent piece

Thankfully, people like this writer are unafraid to write the truth. And how many "Mr. Smiths" do each of us know?

[cybildisobedience]

2. true, it's in the wrong hands, but it still BELONGS to the people

I'm not a flag-waver by any stretch, but allowing the Repukes and neo-cons to capture one more symbol of America doesn't accomplish much. It's our flag -- not theirs.

[dbeach]

3. bush wrapped himself

in the flag he NEVER served after the 9/11 tragedy

exploited by bush to a levl of insanity NEVER seen in the USA or anywhere else

One man named Osama Bin laden attacks the US remains uncaught
while the tre of LIBERTY eats neo-con POISOIN