I never thought I'd be ashamed to be an American.

[Cyrano]

At this very moment, and for the past six years, we, the United States of America, are the biggest threat to life on planet earth.

Many, if not all of us here on DU think that Bush/Cheney should be dragged before a court of justice (The Hague?) and put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. But it just ain't going to happen.

I think back to my time in the service and wonder if I would have had the guts to stand up and say, "Sorry, sir, I'm not going to fight your stinking, illegal war." Back then, I wasn't as politically aware as I am now, so I don't know the answer.

Nonetheless, I never thought I'd be ashamed of my/our country. Unfortunately, there are still far too many ignorant, blinded people who still back the insane, murderous criminals committing crimes in our name in the middle east.

And now, Bush/Cheney are talking about attacking Iran. It might be a ploy, but based on everything these people and their true believers have done to date, why shouldn't I take them at their word?

Very few would disagree that in the last century, Hitler was evil, Mussolini was evil, and the Japanese high-command was evil.

Well what the hell in the world makes this administration any different from them? Many still love the old war movies in which WE were the good guys, THEY were the bad guys and there was no doubt that good would triumph.

Today, I have the feeling that we're the bad guys. And I am ashamed.

[melody]

1. Bush and the ones who've destroyed us should be ashamed

The people are the only ones fighting against them ... we're the Americans. They're an enemy government
within.

[partylessinOhio]

2. Bravo! You speak the truth and have exposed why the lie continues.

Most people in this country cannot even entertain the thought that we are the bad guys - so they follow this evil impostor so they don't have to look at the truth.

I too am ashamed and feel hopelessinOhio.

[nebenaube]

3. Uh...

So how many countries was Hitler into before the world reacted?

[rasputin1952]

4. Two...Austria fell in the Anschluss, basically they capitulated...

w/o a shot being fired and the demand that they become a part of the Reich.

Poland, where on 9Sep39, the fronteir was crossed after a bogus "attack" by "Polish forces". At that point, France and England declared war on the Third Reich. A good portion of the other nations not aligned with the Nazis brought pressure to bear as well. Essentially, we were the last to join the fray, 8Dec41, when FDR asked congress to declare war on Japan and, by extension, Germany, after Hitler decalred was on the US.

[nebenaube]

8. Well if one considers the rhetoric...

I guess it's time to burn up the 401k (oops, too late. That ran out three years ago)

[sutz12]

9. You left out Czechloslavakia....

The Sudetenland in late 1938, pretty much given up by the Chambelain Munich accord, then fully occupied in the spring of 1939.

[rasputin1952]

11. Ah yes...and Poland was only taken because the USSR and Germany

split it up before it was invaded. Later, when the Germans went further, and eventually invaded the Soviet Union, things really went downhill...for everyone.

[Cyrano]

7. It's not a matter of numbers. It's an issue of morality.

[blues90]

5. I feel ashamed

Bush and his crime family have no shame and they along with those who supported this murder seem to have no shame nore do any of the multi-billion dollar corps who profit of the death or the removal of our rights . Yet we have the conscience and take the burdon of shame for what's done in our name .

If enough people could protest each day perhaps we could take this country back and restore it , we would not only have to remove the bush admin but hault the corporations profiting off this murder .

Since this seems impossible we seem dead as a free country and a democracy or the beacon of light anylonger .

This is one sad state of affairs . I feel like everything this country once stood for has been torn down to nothing but greed .

[Cyrano]

10. Well, said. I weep for what we might have been. Yet, somehow, someway,

there is a chance that we will survive this wave of ignorance, aggressiveness, greed and human malevolence that has washed over us like a tsunami.

Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we'll find another FDR in the White House who cares about our country and us.

In one way or another, we've had 35 years of having been ruled by greed, the welfare of the well-to-do, (and even Bill Clinton's tactics to hold onto some remnant of power by betraying his beliefs and selling his soul).

I'm not holding my breath for the salvation of our country. But I'll settle for some semblance of sanity.

[dddem]

6. feel free to steal my great idea for a bumper sticker:

"Proud to be an American -
Who's ahamed of this administration."

I've been saying that for quite some time now.