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The point is, friend, she actually thinks bin Laden is doing more than WE have around the world.

Doing more 'to win the hearts and minds', certainly. And yes, she's wrong to believe it. But saying, however wrongly, that Bin Laden has been cleverer than we've been isn't the same as supporting him: we can say Clinton was cleverer than Lott without being Clintonites, can't we? And that assertion is true.

This "she's supporting Bin Laden" crap is the kind of baseless villification I prefer to leave to the Democrats. She's wrong on the facts, but that's all she is.

"This "she's supporting Bin Laden" crap is the kind of baseless villification I prefer to leave to the Democrats. She's wrong on the facts, but that's all she is."

I think you've missed the point of most of the anger directed at her foolish comments. The issue is less that she's telling school children that Osama has a good side (when what he is in fact displaying is his manipulative side) than that she is implying that the US is making war where it should be providing humanitarian aid. That is a blatant and poisonous lie. The US has long been the largest supplier of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Furthermore, when the need arose to prosecute a military action there, civilian casualties were painstakingly minimized and tons upon tons of food and humanitarian supplies were provided to offset any turmoil the military operation caused. In the end, a repressive regime was displaced, the terrorist camps were destroyed and the terrorists sent scurrying, the people of that nation were left with more liberties and material wealth, and a measure of stability has been restored in a lawless land (stability, I might add, that does not arise from the abject terror that the Taliban may drag you from your home in the night so that you may be subjected to public execution for allowing your wife to speak out of turn or for trimming your beard).

The point, my friend, is that this is yet another case of an idiot Liberal trying to teach school kids that WE'RE the real bad guys, and that all the other villains of the world are only relatively more villainous than we are. Several generations have been subjected to this anti-American poisoning of the mind, and some of us have heard all of it that we're willing to take. When such outrageous slander is leveled at our great nation, it is appropriate to take umbrage and express outrage, particularly when it flows from the mouth of a public official in a position to know better.