And before you try to dismiss me as some kind of blind "right-wing supporter" or "Bush-apologist" or some such nonsense.... Let me point out that I completely agree with your points quoted below:
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Originally Posted by Southernstar
....And while all this is going on, you have to convince yourself and those around you that giving up your freedoms makes you free, that creating historic deficits is fiscal conservatism, that doubling the size of government is actually shrinking government, that warrantless searches and arrests without charges on the basis of secret evidence resulting on American citizens being held indefinitely (and possibly tortured) is all, somehow, the truest expression of American ideals.
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Mike