Evil, Part II: Steal from the Best

Right, now, I believe that we in the United States have a fundamentally flawed government, both domestically and overseas. This Republican All-Star team, to me, has fallen far short of addressing our needs as a country, and has made living in America a more adversarial, frightful, and painful experience than it ought to be.

But even under this government, I never think of our leaders in some comparison to Osama bin Laden. Those who do, I think, are just flapping their jaws in excess hyperbole. These are people who can't distinguish between a Nazi and a Soup Nazi.

Maybe that's why it's taken me an extra day to notice-- Osama isn't just borrowing liberal rhetoric; he's borrowing the logic from every past wartime Administration in this country.

How many times have you heard an American spokesman say, "Our conflict is not with the Iraqi/North Korean/Vietnamese/Chilean/El Salvadoran people; it is this regime that must be removed, to make a better life for these people."

And so, from Osama bin Laden, "..But I plan to speak about the repeated errors your President Bush has committed in comments on the results of your polls that show an overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.... And so to return to the issue, I say that results of polls please those who are sensible, and Bush's opposition to them is a mistake... Based on what has been said, this shows the errors of Bush's statement -- the one that slipped from him -- which is at the heart of polls calling for withdrawing the troops..."

Right. You keep an eye on those polls because you care so deeply about the hopes and dreams of the American people. Your conflict is only with this regime. It isn't with the American people. Except the ones you had slaughtered, or are planning to kill in the future.