What is America?

I'm gonna preach to the choir here. If you lend your voice, you can consider this a reminder.

Politics and government are your country. The land, people and most edifices have been around for thousands of years. Your government defines what your country is and what it stands for. One of the first things a new country does is draw up some form of constitution. Establishing a government is how the new country is created.

If you like the way your government is treating other countries and other peoples, fine. Just realise such represents you and what you believe in. Do you think blowing up innocent people will really make you safe? Then accept Bush's idea of how to deal with Iraq and Afganistan and very likely Iran, Syria and others. If you think there's an alternative choice, you just might "get it". You may be able to stop the inevitable attack on Iran by telling your representatives to refuse to support such an offensive. Will that stop Bush? I don't know. Bush doesn't seem to believe laws, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Congressional decisions apply to him. After all, he is a war president.

Oh yeah. He's a war president. Or is he? Can Bush present US with any authentic declaration of war he hasn't personally produced? A war on terror isn't a war. It's a charade. People are shooting and blowing things up daily, dying daily and suffering daily so it resembles war, but it isn't one. Bush is not a "war president" and has no war president powers. You know it and so does Congress. Unfortunately Congress is unwilling to call him on it.

Are you proud your country kills innocents, tortures, spies on you, lies to you, destroys the environment, enslaves you to colossal debt, allows corporations to rape your resources and most importantly, sends your children to fight and die for reasons other than to defend itself?

You have to decide if the America Bush has produced is your idea of what America really is. If you decide it is not, you must get involved in politics and change your government. We the people...?