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Perhaps the mafioiso ex-mayor needs to be reminded of that.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...after he started the wars in the middle east.
murielm99
(30,745 posts)would always tell him that. They also said, "He's the commander in chief."
My husband told them that Dubya was not HIS commander in chief, because he was not in the military. He had completed his military service a long time ago. A few times, he asked guys if they had served. Most of them mumbled and walked away.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Johnson and Nixon shouldn't have been criticized for Vietnam?
Bagsgroove
(231 posts)Because we always have troops in the field.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Only white Republican non-muslins can be the true president. You know.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Guiliani is a tool, but so is that statement about not criticizing the president.
The president works for us.
Way to echo the authoritarian Bushbots.
treestar
(82,383 posts)This is to call out Republicans who are not practicing what they preached
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)So they preached malignant, antidemocratic BULLSHIT. That does not mean you should imply that they should have followed through on malignant, antidemocratic BULLSHIT.
Not even to score a political point.
treestar
(82,383 posts)rather than poking the right wingers for disagreeing now when they claimed earlier it was wrong to do.
ileus
(15,396 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)I hope not. It's authoritarian bullshit either way.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)When the corrupt con politicians and their corrupt media start making any sense please wake me up.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)livetohike
(22,147 posts)I found a refuge here at DU in March 2004. It was safe to criticize Bush et al here. No one else seemed to be doing it.
Martin Eden
(12,871 posts)We have been perpetually at war for more than 13 years, and it could last indefinitely.
Was I wrong to criticize GW Bush during the war in Iraq?
If, while war goes on, it's unpatriotic to criticize the president, than I'll proudly wear the label of unpatriotic.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Even presidents. Even if they're Democrats.