Last night I was watching an episode of the ABC hit show Boston Legal, when a character named Denny Crane, said, "You're either for the war or you are unamerican." or something to that effect. This reminded me of the Crucible and our discussion of the War in Iraq. In the Crucible, there is a quote that says, "you are either with this court or against this court." I have to say that I disagree with this thought because I do not believe that you are either for the war (in Iraq) or you are "unamerican". What exactly does it mean to be "un-American"? I absolutely support our troops, but I don't know that I support the war that is going on currently. I want our troops to keep our country safe and I want them to protect us, but I do not believe that we should call people "un-Americna" for saying that our troops should come home or that we are not for the war that is going on. Today, President Obama announced his time table for withdrawing troops from Iraq; this time table would be removing troops with all of them being out of Iraq by August 2010. I think that it is interesting that President Obama has made a decision for how to handle the war in Iraq while only having been in office for a little over a month. I would like to return to my original question however, What exactly does it mean to be "un-American"?
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I agree with you about the war. I support the troops and want them to be safe, but I do not want there to be a war. I do not think that having an opinion about the war and the situation in Iraq makes someone unamerican. I think that if a person does something illegal or not patriotic against the war and our troops than may be they are being unamerican.
In America we have the freedom of speech and I think that within that freedom there are restrictions, but people in America are able to have their own opinions about the war. I also think that it is good that Obama is keeping one of his campaign points true, he said that he was going to with draw the troops and I guess you said that he is and I think that it is good. I only hope that by taking our troops out of Iraq we don't cause bigger problems.
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