Sorry.
If I wasn't first, I sure thought I was. That post I linked I know for sure was not the first time I said it. I may not have even posted it here, but that was my thinking when the first few words were uttered about going into Iraq. If you posted it here before me, I apologize for attempting to steal your thunder ;-)
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"