Up is down (or is down up)

AA you're "me" attitude is evidence of what is wrong with this world.  You are so blinded by your individual success that you can't see the grief and struggling in the world that surrounds you. 

You are typical of those who sit back in their easy chair and criticize those less fortunate for not getting off their lazy asses and making something of themselves while condoning the bombing of innocent women and children in foreign countries claiming that they are collateral damage and probably having never seen a day of combat.

I have lived a pretty full life and plan to make the rest of my life as full as I possibly can.  I spent 20 years serving this country that you are so damn proud and I have earned the right to be critical of it.  Patriotism is not "my country right or wrong", but when it's wrong let's try to fix it. 

I saw the internment camps of the Japanese in WWII and asked about them and was told why and I said this is wrong but no one listened to me because I was a child.  I saw the McCarthy hearings about the Red Scare and was told why and I said this was wrong but no one listened to me because I was a teenager.  I witnessed integration into my all white school and saw a majority of the white students going after the few black students that were left because of a fight between a black and a mexican and I said this is wrong and, finally, someone listened and the crowd dispersed and left the black children alone.

I witnessed first hand our excursion into Viet Nam, and since I was in the military, I held my voice but I knew it was wrong. 

I, as all of you did, saw Bush senior lie to the american people about a threat from Iraq and said it was wrong but again no one listened.

Now we are all witnessing the greatest threat to this country ever but it is from within.  This administration is destroying everything that this country has stood for since it's beginning and I say IT'S WRONG  and no one believes me because I'm old. 

You who call yourself Average American (and I sincerely hope you are not) say you don't want me quitting my job to go on Medicare well let me tell you.  I am on Medicare and Tricare and you are not paying for it I've earned every penny of it!

AA you're "me" attitude is evidence of what is wrong with this world.  You are so blinded by your individual success that you can't see the grief and struggling in the world that surrounds you. 

You are typical of those who sit back in their easy chair and criticize those less fortunate for not getting off their lazy asses and making something of themselves while condoning the bombing of innocent women and children in foreign countries claiming that they are collateral damage and probably having never seen a day of combat.

AMEN.

First dude, where ya been. We need you around here.

Second, the I got mine, and the rest of the planet can f*** off is exactly the root cause of evil tyrants and always has been. "Hey, my house didn't get fire bombed today, those dumb Iraqis oughta move, the dumb bastards. " Never mind that our policies are getting them killed, it ain't the Average American's problem. I mean really, Bush helped them out by destroying their country, firing anyone who may have been able to maintain order inside Iraq, and then sat around with Cheney's thumb up his ass waiting for the oil to start flowing in.