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Radical Russ, on Pam's House Blend, expressed my thoughts on the Haditha massacre more eloquently than I'm capable of at the moment:
...In one morning, 19 young men with box cutters did to our country, Constitution, and culture what the British, the French, the Mexicans, the Confederates, the Spanish, the Kaiser, Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, Ho Chi Minh, and Saddam Hussein couldn't accomplish with actual armies and months or years worth of real warfare. 9/11 changed America from a lofty ideal to just another name for a piece of land.
And no, I'm not going to leave America, because I don't hate America, so don't say it. I love America. I just hate the people who are running America into the ground. I'm going to stay and see that those people are removed from office and punished, and then I'm going to work toward making America a shining ideal again.
...In one morning, 19 young men with box cutters did to our country, Constitution, and culture what the British, the French, the Mexicans, the Confederates, the Spanish, the Kaiser, Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, Ho Chi Minh, and Saddam Hussein couldn't accomplish with actual armies and months or years worth of real warfare. 9/11 changed America from a lofty ideal to just another name for a piece of land.
And no, I'm not going to leave America, because I don't hate America, so don't say it. I love America. I just hate the people who are running America into the ground. I'm going to stay and see that those people are removed from office and punished, and then I'm going to work toward making America a shining ideal again.