Rights to your Flag

I have recently become separated from the world and its devious nature. I watch a minimal amount of television; news especially. The world had a hold on me that I was more than willing to give up. I listen to the radio only enough to understand the basics of my surroundings. Do not mistake me for a prude. I am well aware of the issues that burden and brighten my world. But, I will not subject myself to the ideals and beliefs in which the media surges into the minds of the masses. I am not apart of the masses. In short, the ideals I have are my own.
I have long wanted to write about the John Kerry blunder which now that I have found a venue will share. In his attempt to insult President Bush, John Kerry tore a hole in the respect we should all have for our political and military servants when he said that if you work hard in school and earn good grades you will be a success but if you chose not to then you would end up in Iraq. John Kerry is a fool. He doesn’t understand that those in the military, many who earn their degrees as they protect, are educated people and answered a calling to join the forces that protect this and other great nations.
People, like John Kerry, may be highly educated and may possess intelligence on a factual level, but are ignorant when it comes to the hearts of people. No one has the right to denounce the respect owed to our troops. It is people like him who make this war similar to the Vietnam conflict. (I say conflict because we never as a country declared war on Vietnam.) The soldiers who served and those who died in or as a result of Vietnam are now celebrated for their sacrifice, but during the years of fighting the people here, in their home country, spat on them and afforded them no respect for their service. John Kerry and those who agree with him do not have the heart of a servant and therefore do not have a place in political society.
Our fathers fought for the right to fly our flag. The Iraqi people have the same right. Our troops are not fighting in Iraq to replace their flag with ours but to give the flag back to its people. Who are we to say they aren’t worthy of the honor of flying their flag separate from tyranny? The French helped us to hold tight to ours during the Revolution. Are we not to pass that blessing on to the Iraqi people? War is tragic, but what is more tragic is an American man, a political servant of his people, shaming our men and women in battle. John Kerry and those who share his ideologies are traitors to this country and to the thousands of men and women who protect it.