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U.S. forces protect your right to complain about the U.S.

Feb-12-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By Douglass Holden, News-Miner

For years I have sat and listened to different organizations sit and complain about the United States and its interference in world affairs. I have watched different groups stand on street corners and protest what they view as the slaughter of Americans on foreign soil. I have watched as "famous" individuals put down the president and the way he conducts foreign policy. I have seen our veterans treated as criminals and called baby killers.

I wish for just one moment that the organizations that complain would spend just a week in the countries that we, the United States, "interfere" with. In most countries you could be executed just for voicing your opinion, and to speak badly about your country, you could be shot on sight, without a trial or the opportunity to defend yourself. To stand on a street corner and protest anything could get you shot with the protest sign still in your hand. The next day your name wouldn't be in the paper. To make mention about your military forces would get you and your family executed--in public! Furthermore, if you are "famous or well-to-do" and you denounce government policy or go against the leaders (whoever controls the government), you will find the soup line will be your next place to eat. [...]


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