Reply #3: Christian [View All]

[HFishbine]

Welcome to DU.

The point you miss is that the Bush administration is playing on your fears to come up with things like this:

Saddam Hussein = terror
Greenpeace = terror
drug dealers = terror
Palestinians = terror

Get the point? Bush is using your fear of terrorism as an excuse to pursue his enimies, real and imagined.

You have a greater chance of being killed by a drunk driver, a handgun or a medical mistake than you do of being killed by a "terrorist." Bush has so manipulated you with the fear of an unlikely threat that you are willing to allow him to puruse policies that are disproportionate to the risk and beyond justification in terms of cost, both monitary and human.

Just ask yourself, do you still live in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Or can you open your eyes enough to see that Bush is shaping a new America, land of the monitored and home of the fearful?