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Originally posted by Patriot:
Rob,
Sorry to see you are an extreme left wing liberal. I love your music!!- but you should leave your political views out of your wonderful talent. I hate to see you jump on the Hollywood President bashing band wagon. You and everyone like you are passing on your opinions to young people that have no idea about the history of this country. If it weren't for men like President Bush you would not be entertaining and making millions. You have the freedoms you have because brave men and women before you stood up to dictators. We must all admit that Saddam Hussain and his thugs were torturing and killing many people, not to mention he laughed in the face of the United Nations for 10 years, playing cat and mouse with arms inspectors. Since the UN will not enforce its laws. Bush is finishing what Clinton was too weak to finish.
I want to say I don't like to see war. War is very very ugly. But weak nations will fall prey to tyrants as history shows.

I want to say thanks to all the men and women that are protecting the people of Iraq and making Iraq and the world a safer place!! The majority of America is behind you, don't listen to the left wing media and hollywood. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed!!

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Rob,
Sorry to see you are an extreme left wing liberal. I love your music!!- but you should leave your political views out of your wonderful talent. I hate to see you jump on the Hollywood President bashing band wagon. You and everyone like you are passing on your opinions to young people that have no idea about the history of this country. If it weren't for men like President Bush you would not be entertaining and making millions. You have the freedoms you have because brave men and women before you stood up to dictators. We must all admit that Saddam Hussain and his thugs were torturing and killing many people, not to mention he laughed in the face of the United Nations for 10 years, playing cat and mouse with arms inspectors. Since the UN will not enforce its laws. Bush is finishing what Clinton was too weak to finish.
I want to say I don't like to see war. War is very very ugly. But weak nations will fall prey to tyrants as history shows.

I want to say thanks to all the men and women that are protecting the people of Iraq and making Iraq and the world a safer place!! The majority of America is behind you, don't listen to the left wing media and hollywood. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed!!

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Originally posted by addicted2music:

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Rob,
Sorry to see you are an extreme left wing liberal. I love your music!!- but you should leave your political views out of your wonderful talent. I hate to see you jump on the Hollywood President bashing band wagon. You and everyone like you are passing on your opinions to young people that have no idea about the history of this country. If it weren't for men like President Bush you would not be entertaining and making millions. You have the freedoms you have because brave men and women before you stood up to dictators. We must all admit that Saddam Hussain and his thugs were torturing and killing many people, not to mention he laughed in the face of the United Nations for 10 years, playing cat and mouse with arms inspectors. Since the UN will not enforce its laws. Bush is finishing what Clinton was too weak to finish.
I want to say I don't like to see war. War is very very ugly. But weak nations will fall prey to tyrants as history shows.

I want to say thanks to all the men and women that are protecting the people of Iraq and making Iraq and the world a safer place!! The majority of America is behind you, don't listen to the left wing media and hollywood. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed!!

Hey fair enough! its a good point "You have the freedoms you have because brave men and women before you stood up to dictators"...im kinda confused though how in the same breath as saying this you say rob thomas should keep his views out of his talent especially when his talent is music and this board is a link to his music- which is about expression, i doubt the people before us that stood up to dictators kept their opinions to themselves, whispering it in a corner, so why not express his opinions surely thats how progress is made?
You are worried about his influence on the young- Im not i hope this compels them to learn more about their history and make an educated decision on whats happening. Im not american so this is perhaps my lack of experiance in the US and with its people but here in the UK (where I think comparisons can be made) power and money have replaced ideology. the media can try and put the facade of morals and humanity on all of this but power is the primary concern and in tied first position is wealth. It is power and wealth that has given the Bush family this position and what they crave more of. The cost of this is more than 1500 US service personnel not forgetting all the other nations losses particularly Iraqis. We disagree and thats cool your points have made me think and I think thats always a good thing and il shut up now and give everyone piece and quite to talk about music etc but please never think i could say a bad word about the forces on the ground they face the worst conditions that I could not even begin to imagine, i have the utmost respect for them- its the people that put them in that position i question but dont expect any answer from. once again thanks for putting up this post you seem like a smart person and its cool hearing ur views thousands of miles away uv gotta love this technology! have a good weekend!