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You know, being against foreign wars and against a standing army was just as important to the founders as the principle of no taxation without representation. It's odd how Fox, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the usual suspects are invoking the Spirit of 1776 for these tea baggers, but the antiwar protesters of recent years were "radicals" and "leftists" and "liberal fascists".
You can't cherry pick history to somehow make you more "american" than the fellow next to you. If you want to invoke 1776 then you got to take it all.
I think someone once said that Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Still rings true.