I’m anti-war, but I’m pro-troop. The soldiers are good boys and girls doing what they’re told. It’s not their war — they’re just fighting it. I don’t have a beef with them. It’s Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney I have questions for. But a guy in the army? A twenty-one-year-old kid from Illinois? He could vote for Bush all day long. I have no argument with this guy. And I’ve also met a lot of soldiers who said, “This war’s bullshit, but I’m fighting it.” All these Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly types who claim to be the only ones who’re patriotic and who think that if you want to question the government you’re a Taliban sympathizer or a commie spy — it offends me. And it also offends me that if you say you’re patriotic someone on the other side might say you’re a psycho conservative, Fox News-loving jerk. I think America’s great. I mean, how could it not be? The Ramones come from here. – Henry Rollins

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