It'll be interesting and depressing to see just how many reports of vandalism to the flags result from this.

This is a tremendous and touching move on your part and I appreciate it not as a conservative or whatever... but as an American.

NoviDemocrat, you are a despicable individual to even suggest anything close to what you referenced.

"The CR's are very brave to stand up for this country in area's where patriotism of ones country is mostly vilified."

For me that old "we're patriots too!" rejoinder is getting pretty old.

Novi, you represent the same Democrat party who patriotically placed the "General Betray Us" ad in the New York Times.

You represent the same party whose patriotic members have accused General Petraeus of lying and patriotically said they would "not buy" his testimony before they heard it.  To your esteemed Senate leader Patreaus is just another General Westmoreland that "cooks the books."

You represent the same party whose patriotic (and silly) fat cows were thrown from the hearings for disrupting important testimony being given.

Though you lament and are shamed of the non-capture of bin Laden, at the same time you represent the party that fought tooth and nail to kill the Patriot Act, fought to stop the NSA from monitoring international calls, exposed the tracking of international funds of terrorist organizations and screamed over non-invasive data mining.  Your party's leaders compared our soldiers at Guantanamo to the Nazis and compared our soldiers in the Middle East to terrorists--all the while your party's members protested our soldiers that lay injured in their beds at Walter Reed.

It speaks volumes to me that the best rallying cries the Democrats have been able to come up with since Islamic fascists declared war on us is "Remember Abu Ghraib" and "Guantanamo Torture!"

This is just a friendly little tip.  It would be much easier to recognize your party's patriotism once in a while if it, you know, wasn't bashing America all of the time.  Think of the upside--you guys wouldn't have to look like hypocrites every time you ventured outside and basked in the freedoms this country provides you.  And, I think, you could use a little sun.

It's not "we're patriots too", it's simply "we're patriots". We don't have to justify ourselves to you or your party. Just because you attempt to wrap your failed policies and beliefs in "patriotism" and "America" doesn't make them either patriotic or American. Your party isn't "America" and I sure as heck am not going to temper my criticism because you attempt to say it's so.

And then don't forget about the Republican president who got us out of the war.

Oh, and don't forget about Truman (Democrat)getting us into Korea and Eisenhower (Republican)getting us out.

I am not a defeatist. I believe in my country, our capabilities and the people. When President Bush (41), Clinton or Bush (43) put our guys into harms way I support them regardless of the political stripping of the President and so do mainstream Americans.
What I saw Move-on.Org do to Gen. Gen. Petraeus was pathetic. They should be embarrassed, but I don't believe they think they did anything wrong. Which begs the question? Is ignorance bliss?  

You mean the same troops that would have come home anyways because we couldn't sustain the surge beyond next summer? So Bush is going to announce that the troops that would have been coming home anyways are coming home. That's something.

This is what I said:

"While George Bush is President, there will be no serious reduction of US forces in Iraq below pre-surge levels."

• WMDs - gone, they apparently were never there but whatever
  
• Saddam - gone, feel safer now?
  
• Democracy - Doesn't the purple fingers prove it?

Define your words - "Major Troop Reductions".  And give me your over/under.  I'd just give you 5% +/-, but you tell me your margin of error.