Something red states and blue states can finally agree on: Bush is al-Qaeda's candidate of choice. Who's up for a global holy war? Yee-haw!

Getting serious for a moment: I don't want to make light of the war on terror (er, "dealing with the al-Qaeda threat" to be more accurate and less catch-phrasey,) but how does the president not realize he has played right into Bin Laden's hands... his deranged and obvious master plan to divide the world and cause endless war? Al-Qaeda could not be more ecstatic that we are destabilizing the entire middle east (and are directly causing more anti-Americanism than they could dream of) with the invasion of Iraq. They didn't even have to prompt that. We did it all our own. What a gift. I thought the United States responded correctly in Afghanistan with a focused operation, but that needed to be coupled with a deep self-examination and a whole-hearted effort to eliminate the root causes of terrorism and anti-American sentiment. It was a matter of simply behaving in a more fair and humble manner... things we knew we should have been doing anyway. We of course did exactly the opposite. The opposite of common sense. The opposite of what Jesus would do. Not that I claim to be a biblical scholar or religious at all, but I got the point of the new testament in catechism... something George W. Bush apparently missed entirely. I've come to realize that the president is not actually just a sleazy businessman, but he truly believes everything he says and is driven by a self-righteous idealism which has no room for subtlety or self examination. An idealism that can only be described as fanatical. He's one paranoid, power-hungry, sick-in-the-head zealot (character descriptors, not name-calling) who is neither a good conservative or a good christian. I actually appreciate, or at leat understand many basic republican principles about unobtrusive government, fiscal responsibility and liberty, but can't understand how any republican can support this administration's policies which fly in the face of the party's core values.

With that, I direct you again to Erroll Morris' brillaint Switch ads.

The United States is a great nation. I want to stop being ashamed. I want it back.