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To: LindyBill who wrote (19609)	12/12/2003 1:44:02 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793598

Getting pretty mean over at "Democratic Underground." Here is the end of a column on the front page. ....I began to think of our current leaders and their actions, taken in the name of this country. Soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan every day in flag-draped coffins, killed not for the honor and glory of the United States, not for the cause of democracy, peace, and freedom, but for these men and women's dreams of avarice and power. Killed for corporate greed. Killed for oil. Killed for a mad dream of global domination that is already coming to pieces in their grasping, lying hands. And I knew that the enemies of this country were not those desperate, maddened foreigners fighting for their own deluded dreams of glory and religious domination. The most deadly enemies of this country were those self-same men and women lolling on the couches of power in our nation's capital like so many Caligulas, sending our loyal children off to die for their own demented purposes. And I knew that the reverse was also true: that the most powerful enemies of these power-mad satraps and oligarchs gorging themselves on American largesse in Washington, and in the capitals of our fifty states, were not foreign terrorists or foreign governments, but the citizens of our own country. The Americans that stood alongside me that November night watching the ceremonial burning of our nation's flags as we retired them from honorable service. All of us, rich and poor, liberal and conservative, Christian and not, Republican and Democrat and independent. Be warned, George Bush. Take heed, Rumsfeld and Rice and Cheney and Perle and all of your cronies in the halls of power. The real Americans, all 284 million of us, are your enemies, as you are the enemies of America. We are coming for you. We will pull you out of your gilded holes and expose you for the traitors and criminals you are. We will reverse your schemes of power and domination, and restore this country to its place as the world's leader of democracy and freedom. And our flag will wave proudly over the ashes of your ambitions." democraticunderground.com