# Using the Olympics for political ads??

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 19, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-olympics-for-political-ads/260595 "2004-08-19T19:19:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-olympics-for-political-ads/260595/21 "2004-08-20T11:59:32Z")

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> [@Aro](#):
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> What he is saying is that he would be willing to take up arms to defend his country in an attempt to quell the violence and continuation of aggressive attacks against innocent Iraqis.  
> Do you think this is a invalid concern, or is patriotism solely an American virtue?

Now now, everyone knows that killing Iraqis is no big whoop – so much so, that the American Gov doesn’t keep track of such stats. Easily over 12,000 civilians so far for those keeping track BTW. But kill an _American_ occupying Iraq and gracefully bringing democracy at the point of an M-16 – hoo booy! Puts the “compassionate” right back into the “conservative.” WMDs? We’ll show _you_ WMDs!

Patriots? Pleeze! Terrorists, each and every one of them. Almost all 25 million of them cave-dwellers. Shooting bullets instead of throwing flowers! Eviil Bastiids!

Besides, as we should all know by now, Americans forces are simply acting as ‘muscle’ for the new electe…erm, selected sovereign Iraqi Government. And no, you’re not supposed to notice all those nylon strings coming off Allawi & Co backs…

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