QUOTE: Upper Left lets the Deanies have it:
"Asked about Dean's seemingly inexpicable reluctance to support automatic citizenship for people willing to volunarily serve the United States in uniform, Trippi attempted an explanation. It boiled down to this - Joe Trippi (and presumably Howard Dean) - fears that the promise of citizenship would provide people with "an enticement into a life they don't want to lead."
Well, that's a way to look at it, I suppose. Especially if you've never served, aren't particularly appreciative of those who do or have and can't imagine why anyone would want to.
But for me, and I suspect for most of my fellow vets and many other Americans, it's not a matter of enticement at all, but a matter of reward.
A well deserved reward to people willing to sacrifice for the liberty and opportunity that the United States represents to them.
Except, of course, unless you think those brown folks just couldn't feel that way."
I'm not familiar with this automatic citizenship proposal, but it strikes me as a brilliant idea.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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