[Ridley]

Originally posted by DeathsHand
Without it, bush's approval rating would probably drop a whole lot....

And you know what's sad? He'll probably go down as one of the greatest presidents of all time. But then again, he's still got some time in office to more things that could make that more believable (doubt it though ).

If people stopped being very patriotic (wether fake or not ) about all this, they probably wouldn't care much about the military or whatever and what it's doing, and they wouldn't be like "WOO! TAKE THAT, TERRORISTS!" and instead they'd be like "Hmm... I wonder if Cheney really is hiding something about that Enron dealy "

I never got into the patriotic stuff anyways, although I kinda liked the WTC flag thing... just cuz... well, I mean the olympics are taking place in the USA... and it's a flag that was recovered from the place of the worst terrorist attack ever on the US where thousands of citizens from countries around the world were killed...

So it all fits nice'n'good in the ceremonies, IMO...

But meh...

But shouldn't people just be patriotic without all the "Yay we just killed another terrorist/destroyed another camp/etc. Go team!"? Then again when stuff like this doesn't happen to a nation for a while, people begin to take it for granted. Almost seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don't, kind of thing to me .

Oh don't get me wrong, like I said the WTC flag thing was a nice gesture but ......arrrgh I don't know.