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This is troubling. See the rap video that people are talking about. It reminds me of one of the things that makes me so angry about the Bush rhetoric. He repeatedly says he is fighting against people “who hate freedom” and who “hate our liberty” and so on. That’s just idiotic on its face. No one prefers to be enslaved rather than free. What they hate is what everyone hates. They hate seeing people they know and love killed. They hate soldiers that glory in killing. That cheer. That think killing another human being is “awesome” and want to “do that again.” But let’s be clear. Just because I don’t think Bush is their savior, doesn’t mean I think Osama is. Bush is their enemy. Sure. But Osama is too. So is anyone that tells them to commit suicide. Their enemy is anyone that tells them to waste their lives in the taking of other innocent life. Their enemy is anyone that tells them that more killing is the answer to their problems. Their enemy is poverty. Their enemy is ignorance. Their enemy is the political structures of almost every country in the Middle East. Their enemy is the greed of politicians. Those things are our enemies too. We have to get new leadership in this country that sees this. That is willing to adopt a progressive foreign policy that tries to heal wounds rather than create new ones. And since such leadership could change their plight for the better as well as ours, regime change here is more important than regime change there.

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