Rattle wrote:

When [Bush] uses that "those of us who love freedom" line its hard to take him seriously or conceive that he has a plan. These people don't want to kill Americans because we love freedom. They want to kill Americans because we're the most prominent political power center for people who don't practice their religion. Maybe what Bush really wants to say is "those of us who love jesus" but, of course, that would be extremely divisive, so he says "freedom," knowing that his constituency sees "freedom" and "jesus" as interchangable concepts.

Every global conflict centers around a battle of ideas. We are not on top of our information warfare game. To prove that point, I only need to reference at any given speech President Bush gives.

Wish he would say THOSE THAT DON'T LOVE MOHAMMAD because the crazy terrorists certainly don't love Jews, Hindus, or the pagans here in the USA either. But the problem may more be that most people don't find anything Mr. Bush says even near intelligent anymore - whether it might be or not. Few people respect him anymore.

RE: Why our national rethoric is broken -OR- Why we are loosing the War on Terror