Thursday, October 06, 2005

Yet Another Bush Speech...... ZZZzzzzzzzzz

Blah, blah, blah...... the president's speech this morning at the National Endowment For Democracy had the same old "applause lines", with few exceptions:
In this new century, freedom is once again assaulted by enemies determined to roll back generations of democratic progress. Once again, we're responding to a global campaign of fear with a global campaign of freedom. (emphasis added)
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Al Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, has called on Muslims to dedicate, quote, their "resources, sons and money to driving the infidels out of their lands."
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Second, the militant network wants to use the vacuum created by an American retreat to gain control of a country, a base from which to launch attacks and conduct their war against non-radical Muslim governments. (emphasis added)
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Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever it's called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam.
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Defeating the militant network is difficult, because it thrives, like a parasite, on the suffering and frustration of others. The radicals exploit local conflicts to build a culture of victimization, in which someone else is always to blame and violence is always the solution. They exploit resentful and disillusioned young men and women, recruiting them through radical mosques as the pawns of terror. (emphasis added)
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Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy teaches that innocent individuals can be sacrificed to serve a political vision. And this explains their cold-blooded contempt for human life. (emphasis added)
I can go on and on.....

But doesn't it sound like he's talking more about himself, his administration, and the Christian and Republican extremists in this country, rather than about bin Laden and terrorism?

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