We’ve heard a lot about anyone who disagrees with the current administration’s policy in Iraq or on the war on terror, or even disputes their facts or questions them, would be suffering from moral or intellectual confusion. ”Are you anti-American ?”  Just because someone opposes US government policy does not mean they oppose the American people. The term “anti-American” as well as “anti-Semitic”  is being used to suppress legitimate criticism and dissent in the same way tyrants throughout history have done so (and so whittled away democracy). The same principals was used by war machine of Hitler and Stalin.  The criticism of the state action, is used to associate it with the people , their country, their culture. Then you get that blind , unconditional support of general population, for often criminal action of the government, but in the people’s minds the cause is noble.  The great disservice is the creation of the idea that if you disagree with the people that are in, you’re somehow, you don’t love your country and you can’t be trusted to defend it. 

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