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conservatives unamerican by their standards?

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-08 23:15

Think way back, all the way to 2003: our politicians, media, and thirst for oil were steering us for war in Iraq. Those who dared speaking out (Dixie Chicks saying they were ashamed of Bush, Michael Moore getting booed and banned from the Oscars for saying he thinks Bush is lying)are blacklisted from mainstream America.

The Bush supporting conservatives used phrases like 'it's America, like it or leave it' or 'how unamerican to criticize our Commander in Chief during war time?'. 

Now in 2010, many of these same conservatives who were blasting liberals for opposing the President during war time (ala Hannity, Limbaugh, etc) attack and undermine this president on a daily basis. This is despite the fact that we're still fighting war in Afghanistan and we've yet to pull out of Iraq.

So by their own definitions as of 7 years ago, that makes Hannity and Limbaugh unamerican by their standards.

PS:
-Was Michael Moore right?
   YES BUSH DID LIE
-Were the Dixie Chicks wrong?
   NO, WHAT AMERICAN ISN'T EMBARRASSED BY BUSH

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-08 23:39

I doubt all of what you said is valid.

I've heard of Liberals who hate that we're still fighting a war in the oily East but little of Conservatives who do more than angst the fact.  Instead, they're rather angry the White House is trying to force/delude with an arbitrary pull-out date that they keep moving around.  Additionally, criticism of President Obama has been about his non-military international efforts and his domestic program, not his "overseas contingency" conduct; has Limbaugh called him a war criminal yet (has he?  I don't listen to the guy but I know if there's something radical to say he'd be the one to willingly say it whether or not other people believed it)?

As for the effort to now expand oil drilling, this is nothing new.  There has been some desire to push for expanding energy such as domestic oil drilling and nuclear construction for a number of years now, often little reported.  In fact, a lot of territory off the coast of California is already well-documented and mapped and Shell or ExxonMobil could get working on an unobtrusive method of oil extraction within a month were they allowed to tomorrow.  Those who push for the expansions now probably are using the war to try and tug heart strings - after-all, who wouldn't want to make it less likely we'd stay entangled there for the wrong reasons? - but is more a reaction to what is seen as an unrealistic Green national energy plan.

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