>>>>> Remember, just a year ago under the Bush administration, dissent was the highest form of patriotism.
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>>>>>http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTU1Njc5ZjQ4NGExNDU0MzcwMTExNWM3NTMxMzViMGY=
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>>>>That is ridicilious. Under the Bush administraation dissent meant that you did not support our troops and you were an unpatoritic unloyal America hater who didnt care about freedom.
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>>>Re: Seymour Hersh and his war against the US Message #1328271
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>>>I don't recall any senators or the president actually saying that. yet it was stated ad naseum here and by dems. Could you point me to a link?
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>>You're the one setting that condition. There were plenty of regular people who did say Obama, and anyone else who opposed the war, were unpatriotic. Especially the first year or two after the invasion, before it was known how badly it would go.
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>My point was that it wasn't the administration or Bush saying it and yet everyone lays that claim at the foot of him and his administration. There are many ridiculous things Dems and Repubs say (the extremists who don't really represent the majority of either party) but those statements cannot be blamed on either leadership or party.
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>He was responsible for enough damage that we don't need to blame him for stuff he wasn't responsible for. The worst of it all was really the erosion of the bill of rights and he should have been impeached for that.

I did not read Victor's post as blaming it directly on the administration. He said "Under the Bush administration", which I took to mean while Bush was President. Maybe he will clarify.

With the Supreme Court and Circuit Court judges we have now, it was inevitable that the Bill of Rights would be eroded. They can't chip away at it fast enough. Of course, they got plenty of encouragement from the Bush administration ;-(