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[stevemcgarrett]

It has been a thorn in the side of the Bush Administration for years: Democrats speaking out against the Iraq War only to be accused of showing a lack of patriotism by overzealous Republicans in the House. These Democrats have decried such self-censorship, insisting (and rightly so) that they're only exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and dissent.

What chafes at the Republican accusers is the gnawing awareness that they did NOT do the same once the Clinton Administration launched the war against Serbia.

However, until very recently, even the most liberal Democratic politicians, refrained from condemnation of our foreign policy in public venues.

But have not the two Massachusetts patricians, Senators Kennedy and Kerry, now flaunted that tradition for the sake of partisan gain?

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yesterday Kerry railed against American behavior in the world at large. Among those listening in the front row were the former president of Iran.

Kerry harangued; our adversaries listened gleefully. Now trash talking your own country in an overseas venue is evidently acceptable behavior for some Democrats.

When should discretion take precedence over dissent? Are their prudent limits? And since when does Kerry speak for his country in such venues? Is there not a right time and place for such acts of opposition? And is dissent in the name of partisan politics sincere anyhow?

For the record: To me, a patriot is someone who at the end of the day has said many more positive than negative things about his own nation.

Not so Kerry it would seem.

[mateomiguel]

maybe he just wants to become the Swiss Senator when it becomes the 52nd state.

(yes I know we have 50 states but I'm guessing canada will join before switzerland)

[mithridates]

[thepeel]

He doesn't have to like the decisions of his government to like his country. Next topic.

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[alffy]

[ddeubel]

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I want to know how much shrapnel stevemcgarrett has taken for America.

[alffy]

[VanIslander]

Anybody who thinks Kerry is NOT a patriot either (a) doesn't know who he's talking about or else (b) is waaaay too far right wing.

You are starting to sound like those in Turkey wanting to prosecute Turks who speak out against "Turkishness" according to some such law.

America is a nation built on the freedom to express political opposition and criticism and in fact it's at those moments when I admire America the most. I wish I grew up in a nation built on the premise that it is one's right, nay, duty! to speak out against injustice.

[wannago]

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[wannago]

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