Did you actively protest the Patriot Act? Did you apply this socialism/nazism tag to Bush when he took apart as many different aspects of your constitution as he could when he needed to?
Did anyone else who is on your side of the political spectrum do any of those things when that was happening. If they did they made very little noise when it was occurring. What makes todays president any different to his predecessor? Surly what Bush did to your country in the 8 years he was in office was far worse than anything Obama has even contemplated doing up until this point. And yet, when it was occurring there was complete silence from those who now are seemingly fighting for their "rights".
Not much you could do when you are in the Service deployed to Iraq on two diferent ocassions and that person that sent me to danger happened to be my commander in chief, which meant you could get in a lot of trouble for speaking up against him.
So no I did not go out there protesting or shooting myself on the foot so I could get out of my contract I honored my commitment and when I had a chance in 2004 I voted against him, most "scared" people went ahead and re elected him again because 'he knows how to handle the economy and other statements that were brought up last year when "hope and change' and "Obama has a economic plan" were chanting again....
Do you know that there are three provisions of the Patriot Act up for extending by none other than Obama? Have you seen this recent raid on those bomb making terrorist? what a coincidence...makes me think
Bottom line is that unlike many other people that just hated Bush because the media told them to, did not lose anyone in the war, went to combat or really did not cared about giving up their civil liberties and privacy I did. I was afected every little bit along with every soldier that was extended and screwed to go into that war unprepared so then you get Rumsfeld talking down to a brave soldier questioning why we had pieces of shit equipment to go to war.
Yeah sorry I could not be back here and fight the Patriot Act and every other color coded terrorist alert issued by Homeland Security because I was so busy keeping the desert sand out of my ass crack, dodging sniper bullets and praying that If an Improvised Explosive Device exploded to make sure it killed me instantly cuz I did not wanted to cause my family a burden by not having my legs or hands. Yeah those eight years were bad and Bush got away with everything by getting everything passed by both democrats and republicans, cuz people were scared. Just like they are now again.