Oxymoron: freedom is secure
I vote for Bob Dylan.
>I am afraid my President trumps poetry today. This country is in the middle
>of a massive hurricane tragedy (apparently the biggest natural disaster to
>have ever struck the continent) and this guy, instead of facing that horror
>head on, he takes the day to weave a fiction about the similarities between
>the war in Iraq and World War II. He's gone totally around the bend. (Can
>you imagine Tony Blair trying this story on the English. "Yes, Tony. It's
>the same." etc.) Jeezus. Or read on at one's peril!
>
>CORONADO, California (AP) -- Facing a public increasingly wary of his war
>policies, President Bush declared Tuesday that America cannot rest until
>its
>freedom is secure and likened his spreading-democracy vision to Franklin D.
>Roosevelt's.
>
>Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the
>president
>drew comparisons between that 20th-century conflict and current wars on
>terror and in Iraq.
>
>"As we mark this anniversary, we are again a nation at war. Once again war
>came to our shores with a surprise attack that killed thousands in cold
>blood," he said at a naval base here, referring to September 11, 2001
>terrorist attacks.
>
>He said that as in the time of World War II, the United States now faces "a
>ruthless enemy" and "once again we will not rest until victory is America's
>and our freedom is secure."
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