Man...this country drives me crazy

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WARNING: This may get a little political but is not in any way, shape, or form meant to incite arguements. Just a free expression of ideas. You've been warned.

Ok...I give up. I can't watch TV anymore. Every twenty minutes there's a "breaking story" about the war that's always something like "hey....we dropped another bomb. Wanna see pics?". This also seems to happen when I'm watching a good show. Watching TV early this morning made me realize something. On local news they talked about local demostrations and referred to anti-war gatherings as "protests" and pro-war gatherings as "patriotic". This got me thinking that, even though I truely believe the "protesters" don't have a clue as to what is really going on in the world and are probably just pissed that they don't have anything to be truely pissed about, what is in essence more patriotic than protest? I'm not for or against any sort of war. I'm more of a reluctant observer. I hate to see people of any sort killed (for the most part) but I fail to see a whole lot of relavent options. BUT I'm sick of people like Michael Moore being labeled as "disgraceful" or "unpatriotic" simply for expressing an opinion opposite to what is actually going on in the world. If being patriotic is blindly following any endeavors this country undertakes whether it be foolish or wise, then f*ck patriotism. Lest we all forget that this country was founded on a basis of protest. Just be happy people don't dump tea into harbors anymore. They just stop bathing, put on some Grateful Dead, stick flowers in their hair, and make picket signs (damnit I hate hippies). So just in case you don't want to live in a world of cognitive dissidance, blatantly altering your reality to suit your mood, I think we all have to accept the fact that whether for or against, some people will have different outlooks on the war than you. Not liking war is not the same as hating America or our troops....it's simply not liking the war. So please, if you see someone labeling these people as such, turn the f*cking channel. All you'll find on TV are right wing assholes (no, there's nothing wrong with being right wing, but when you're THAT far to the right it's obvious you're harboring some deep dark secret. Just look at Rush Limbaugh (sp?). You just know he's done something terrible). Somebody PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one who's noticed all of this.