April 2, 2008
I never thought I’d have to be ashamed to be an American….
I am so sorry that there was nothing I could do to keep George W. Bush out of the White House. I knew about his tapeworms, avarice, greed, cowardice, bigotry, ignorance and “Compassionate Conservatism” before his election since I am a native Texan and not an ivy-league import for political purposes. I never thought I’d have to be ashamed to be an American, but that was before my beloved country and my tax dollars under this president launched a pre-emptive attack on the Iraqi people and followed it with mass-murder, torture and illegal occupation abroad and illegal spying and suppression of dissent and voter rights here within the United States. For the first time in my long life I have to blush and hang my head in shame because I am an American. I’m so very sorry.Submitted by: Don McCasland
At 4:38 pm on November 28, 2012, will commented:
i know im extremely late with this but i have to say i completely understand. i was recently in cyprus and had to run for my life from members of the cypriat army. the following day i happened to be at the border between cyprus and turkey and reading an old newspaper clipping i learned how the US paid for the mass murder of over 40% of cyprus. handed out by turkey. i felt ashamed and really worried for my life. that was 3 years ago. im still ashamed as i learn more and more about what this nation is about. its disgusting what capitalism has done to our species.