<p>“Respect for the president and his office”? Sorry, no can do. Can’t have blind respect for that deceitful mendicant and his minions.</p>
<p>This President has pretty much forfeited any respect. He lives in a self-imposed bubble, determined not to know anything inconsistent with the simplistic pap he apparently believes, attempts to manipulate opinion with a combination of secrecy, lies, and threats, and treats those he disagrees with with contempt. Which in this case is returned.</p>
<p>If Bush were caught in embrace with Satan, his apologists would insist he was trying to convert the Devil.</p>
<p>Whoa - TheDad - you don’t have to sugar coat it for us. You can tell us how you *really *feel…</p>
<p>Did you speak recently at the UN?</p>
<p>let me see, calling Bush Satan, while he called other countries Axis of Evil, whole countries…and its all coming out, once again, and the administration is floundering around trying to “remember” what they were told when…</p>
<p>sounds like the house, now don’t it</p>
<p>Is “Satan” just a temporary change of pace from “Nazi” for those afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome?</p>
<p>Kluge, I’m restrained by CC’s Terms of Service.</p>
<p>Brownie, if you read very very very carefully, you’ll see that I constructed a rhetorical image of Bush <em>with</em> Satan, not Bush <em>as</em> Satan, illustrating how the True Believers–those of Bush, not Satan’s–would react.</p>
<p>Iraq, Iran, and North Korea ARE evil. Just like the Reagan rightfully labeled the USSR an evil empire, Bush called those 3 countries what they really are.</p>
<p>Momof2sons:
Oh yes. He is definitely still on mama’s list. :D</p>
<p>“I grew up in a blue collar conservative household where I was taught to have some respect for the President and the office, even when I didn’t agree with perfectly with what he is doing.”</p>
<p>Nixon taught me that while I can respect the office, you can’t always respect your president.</p>
<p>Daddy…very clever. Does he still smell like sulfur?</p>
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That sounds like, “I support the soldiers, but not the military.”</p>
<p>Sounds like, but it isn’t.</p>
<p>Keith O. rocks!</p>
<p>Frodo Failed! Bush Has The Ring!</p>
<p>Read ‘The New Pearl Harbor’ by Richard Falk and David Ray Griffin</p>
<p>Very scholarly work, well documented.</p>
<p>sjmom - sounded to me more like “I support the soldiers, but not the war”. </p>
<p>And how many have we lost this month (and it’s only Oct 4th)? Around 20 or so? That’s almost the number of funerals for me after 9/11. But then, we’ve now lost more soldiers in Iraq than we lost people on 9/11.</p>
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<p>Not really, when I was in the navy there were numerous officers that I had zero respect for. I respected the uniform, but did not respect them as people or leaders.</p>
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The deaths in Iraq are awful. There’s no doubt about it. But when people bring up the loss of 3,000 of our soldiers, I wonder, “How many would have died in traffic accidents?” I don’t mean this to be disrespectful to anyone who has lost someone in Iraq. But there were 43,443 traffic deaths in 2005 in this country. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for people ages four to 34, and there is a motor vehicle death every 12 minutes. <a href=“404 - Page not found | III”>404 - Page not found | III; </p>
<p>My son’s school has lost one graduate (also a West Point grad) in Iraq. It was a terrible loss for his family, the school, and our country. </p>
<p>But the school has had 2 traffic fatalities in the last three years. These deaths are equally tragic for the families, but seem so pointless.</p>
<p>In an all-volunteer military, people make a choice. They choose to serve for a variety of reasons, and are aware of the risks. So do police, firefighters and – unfortunately these days – teachers.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the war in Iraq has made us safer in the short run. I do believe it will in the long run. WWII lasted from 1939 until 1945 and resulted in 407,000 U.S. deaths. I guess I do believe the statement that freedom isn’t free. And I firmly believe that people in a Democracy should try to help other countries enjoy the same freedoms.</p>
<p>Keith Olbermann is my new hero!</p>