Tiptup said:
"We" is a statement that includes all of us in the sense that what our government does, we do. This is a government for the people and by the people, even when we disagree with what happens. We give lots of money to people in the form of welfare spending every year (far more than we spend on military or war) and I still say "we" even though I find that to be incredibly stupid. If you disagree with my wording, then I don't really give a shit (since your distinction and worry is a little too anal retentive).
Otherwise, there have been many who supported the war thinking the Bush administration would have performed it in more intelligent ways. The war was not and is not unjustified in their minds. It's been poorly managed by misguided and simplistic thinking.
"We" is a statement that includes all of us in the sense that what our government does, we do. This is a government for the people and by the people, even when we disagree with what happens. We give lots of money to people in the form of welfare spending every year (far more than we spend on military or war) and I still say "we" even though I find that to be incredibly stupid. If you disagree with my wording, then I don't really give a shit (since your distinction and worry is a little too anal retentive).
Otherwise, there have been many who supported the war thinking the Bush administration would have performed it in more intelligent ways. The war was not and is not unjustified in their minds. It's been poorly managed by misguided and simplistic thinking.
Gosh! No need to be so defensive, as I was only asking for clarification of the term "We". No need to over react so. I am in no way "worried", and only trying to participate in the discussion. Seems like many around this forum are a bit to oversensitive about simple comments in a forum meant to communicate ideas from all perspectives of it's user base. The need for name calling and juvenile put downs are a bit to common these days in this and other message forums around the net. Yet another example of our societies current lack of capacity to communicate and discuss issues in a civil and educated way.