Like all the people who rushed to buy American flags in every shape and form after 9-11.
If you were a patriot you'd already own a god damned flag.
Most of them would have most likely never done it otherwise, seeing as they never bothered to buy one before.
Definitely. And they're the same dumb shits who don't have their flags flying now. I have little use for situational patriots.
-=Mike
Yeah, fuck you both. A flame yes, but I'm not going to have my patriotism questioned because I won't fly headfirst into any boneheaded military engagement this country might get itself into.
There was a classification called Conscientious Objector, sanctioned by the government itself, for people who were "situational patriots," as you falsely put it. Had you drafted me to go to Afghanistan to fight terrorists and the people who attacked us, I'd be all about it. Try to draft me into a war for which the reason has been changed twice already, and you can forget about it. The military is meant to be used only when necessary, and this wasn't necessary.
So don't fucking question my patriotism for objecting to a bullshit war because you love to wrap yourself in the flag and gloat about it. Some of us choose not to use it as a shield for our opinions and respect the nation by questioning things which aren't in its best interests. It's the same nutjobs like yourselves that try to convince people that questioning anything we do is tantamount to treason, when it simply isn't. Your types won't intimidate me into blindly following anything that happens to our country just because we're doing it and that should be good enough reason to support it.
It's people like you that make me a liberal.