1.0 link 10642 <![CDATA[Patriotism and Dissent]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-schlesinger-jr/patriotism-and-dissent_b_10642.html BUSH CONTENDS PARTISAN CRITICS HURT WAR EFFORT, ran the headline in the New York Times last weekend. In suggesting that wartime critics are deficient in patriotism, President Bush contradicts the historic leaders of the Republican party.

For example, Theodore Roosevelt -- no greater superpatriot -- said in 1918 during the First World War: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and...

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