"America Isn't Worth Dying For"

[Triana]

...that's the latest meme - the latest crop of words neocons are stuffing into Cindy's mouth.

My response:

LIES are not worth dying for.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. good one.and repeat back at them often: "Lies are not worth dying for"

[shadowknows69]

2. America and its constitution are worth dying for

Bush's folly is not. The man is not the nation you brainwashed morans.

[elehhhhna]

3. Installing a Muslim Theocracy In Iraq IS NOT WORTH DYING FOR.

[whistle]

4. Halliburton Corporation isn't worth dying for and neither are GE...

...Lockeed-Martin and the rest of the military industrial complex companies! :wtf:

<If anyone has a complete list of those companies, please post them here>

[Connie_Corleone]

5. She never said that.

This is what she said:

"I'm going all over the country telling moms: "This country is not
worth dying for. If we're attacked, we would all go out. We'd all take whatever we had. I'd take my rolling pin and I'd beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq." {applause)

(She was talking about Iraq was not worth dying for.)

[mattclearing]

6. You know that doesn't matter. n/t

[Triana]

8. Of course she didn't say that...

...the neocons took it totally out of context then put the words back into her mouth in a form that she never spoke them.

They're a bunch of twisted liars - just like their 'leader'.

[lectrobyte]

7. Bush/Halliburton/Exxon-Mobil are not woth dying for.

[Solly Mack]

9. Bush's idea of America isn't worth dying for

But saving America from Bush is

[zbdent]

10. So where's the Young Repuke Suicide Squad . . .?

since the idea is that "Freedom is worth dying for . . ."

[1932]

11. In Confessions of and Economic Hit Man, Perkins relates a conversation

with Muslim college students in Indonesia who tell him that Islam will win out over the US because (paraphrasing) Islam is founded on ideas in which Muslims believe. They say that America is no longer founded on powerful ideas.

The students say it's about religion. On reflection, Perkins says it's not religion, but it's sort of about religion. He said that the American Revolution, the fight against slavery, and the fight against fascism led by FDR were built around ideas. But, since WW2, the ideas around which America is organized are greed and consumption. He says, indeed, American empire probably will fail because these ideas are such bullshit.

On page 69 of the book The Health of Nations the authors write about a study that shows that from 1975 to 1991, there was a huge intensification of want for material goods but stagnation (and even decreases) in desires for spiritual goals (like a good marriage and happy family life).