Bush's liberty song echoes Vietnam tune (from ATSNN)

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When U.S. President George W. Bush strode into the Capitol to give his State of the Union address last night, his supporters waved their darkened fingers at him in celebration of his triumph at the Iraqi polls.

But was that purple ink or did Congress stir the purple Kool-Aid with its collective fingers? And are Americans expected to drink it, the way so many swallowed the administration's lies about weapons of mass destruction that the media reheated and served up?

"We will succeed in Iraq because Iraqis are determined to fight for their own freedom, and to write their own history," said Bush, in a speech that, by my count, included seven mentions of the word liberty, eight droppings of democracy and 28 counts of free or freedom.

Bush talked of a now "free and sovereign Iraq" — although that probably comes as a surprise to the overwhelming majority of Iraqis who want the U.S. occupiers, who are building permanent bases there, out.


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