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Whenever I'm faced with the sacrifice others have my for my freedom - their very lives - I'm moved with both awe and respect for what they have done for all of us. Soldiers have fought and died on hundreds of battlefields to preserve a nation founded on a small document written by Thomas Jefferson, whose unique tenets created a revolution in government and granted unprecedented rights to individual citizens. The ideas and ideals contained in that document and a few others penned in that time period are the very foundation of our country - it is the core of what our brave soldiers fought and died to keep and defend. It is the core of who we, as Americans, are.
Now Bush, with his arrogant abuse of power, has mocked the sacrifice of every soldier who has died to preserve the freedom and democracy - the very foundation - of our country.
Because to Bush, the foundation and core of our country is nothing but a @#%&$ piece of paper that falls a poor second to the lust for power and childish willfullness personified in George W. Bush and his administration. In his eyes, tyranny trumps all.
It makes me feel ill to see how far our great country has fallen. If only we had a Thomas Jefferson today to speak out for us in the face of tyrants.
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