Let me not "twist" your words so I will respond directly to them:

Quote:I, personally, NEVER SAID that our young soldiers were the bullies. They just follow orders. Yes, indeed, they are hero's.

So they died for no cause other than some orders from a "bully". What a shame you would say this about the ones who put their lives down for freedom for the Iraq people, stopped the proliferation of Sadam's attempt to take over the oil fieds in the mid east while killing millions of his people. Died on the battle fronts of France, Germany, Italy, et. They died as hero's protecting humanity and at the orders of the Commander in Chief of the USA. I am proud of them and the President(s).

Quote:We had become a joke, and a bad joke at that.

Your right. Any country who sends their young men over to free people and they die securing others freedom and then the same country has some of its citizens apologizing is a "joke". And what a bad joke on our country. It would be better to be proud of who we are and then we will not be a "joke" I don't see Germany appoligizing for the death camps, or Japan for attacking on December 7th or Saudia Arabia for the men from their country flying into the World Trade Towers.

Quote:I, personally, am proud that we FINALLY have a President that can string two sentences together, and bring hope, not just to us, but to the world in general. President Obama fully understands that we are not ALONE in the world. And without new and stronger alliances, we will surely go the way of other "fallen empires" that also thought they were the only game in town.

The sad part of this is there is a lack of understanding of pre WWII and history. Yes, there are fallen empires, such as Germany after WWII, Japan after WWII, Iraq dictator after the Iraq war. I can't believe there is a comparison being made to these criminal empires. To the death camps of Germany, to the tortures to our hero's in Japan, to the gasing by Sadam in Iraq and the rest of the criminal empires. Does anyone think America is going the way of these horrible people. In every case we stood up for humanity and fought for their freedoms. Please don't refer to Obama in the same paragraph as these hero's. He never served, never put his life on the line for freedom.

And I'll thank you to not twist my words in the future.

I don't think I twisted your words but rather responded to your positions.