If being Anti-American means that I want my country to do the right thing

[MrScorpio]

Then so be it

[tnlefty]

1. I hear ya!

So be it.

[mcscajun]

2. You're in the best of company, MrScorpio....

After hearing of the following toast by Stephen Decatur, naval hero of the War of 1812 and the Tripolitan war, John Quincy Adams came up with the perfect rejoinder.

"Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." — Stephen Decatur, April, 1816

"I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum <"Let justice be done though heaven should fall" - anonymous, circa 43 B.C.>. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right." — John Quincy Adams, August 1, 1816

[BlueJazz]

3. I have the upmost respect for you, MrScorpio but..

..don't you mean "I want my country to do the Left thing?" :)

[MrScorpio]

4. Right, as in meaning correct

It's a shame that the conservatives have bastardized such a perfectly honorable word.

[LaurenG]

5. I have been in some brutal arguments on move on forum

over this very issue. Geez we scream about dishonesty and integrity and then try to hide the truth about our own. I say No way. You break it you fix it. If you lie then your a liar etc. Right on.