approximately 4000 american lives and 379 billion dollars spent on the Iraq war, which was started based on an INCORRECT assumption. now, based on that same unsupported bullshit they are talking of combat with syria and IRAN, an "enemy" that is 10 times more difficult than iraq. many of the soldiers are in their third or fourth term, and they are being asked to now go to iran. US soldiers will die, and they are being used like toys, risking their lives for the sole purpose of the US governments monetary gain. the only way to succesfuly challenge iran is to instill a draft in the US...talk about fucking up the future, lets hope we have a future to fuck up.
u wanna talk about the revolutionary war?? the bases for the revolutionary war was greatly influenced by the philosopher John Locke, who stated that governments and their people should have a social contract (ours being the bill of rights). he stated if the government violates that contract, that the people have the right to revolt. that was the colonists support for revolting against england. now by that same logic, "standing up and being american" would not be supporting our fucked up government, the government that violates our social contract, strips us of our rights, sends our young to die for their corruption, lies to us and instills our weak with fear, fear to support their unjustified acts of blind terrorism. NO SIR, "standing up and being american" would be to follow in the footsteps of the founding fathers of this country! being a patriotic american would mean standing up AGAINST this government, to REVOLT and take this country back and giving it back to the people!!