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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
If they feel like they do....then whether it is the country they were born in or not....it isn't their country.
They aren't showing prejudice are they????????
I do not call it prejudice...I call it patriotism.......I call it support for the lads and lasses who in the line of duty, put their lives on the line in a war that the majority of us seem not to have been in support of.
I call it justified.
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Agree 100% ... support for the troops and support for the war are seperate issues .... In Canada, support for the war is at an all time low; but support for the troops is very strong ... there is no contradiction in this. In Quebec, only about 20% of those polled support the war; yet, when the Royal 22nd (a francophone regiment) was deployed to Afghanistan, Quebecois in their thousands turned out in Quebec City to wish them well ...
And there is nothing wrong with patriotism ....