Body and Soul: Freedom: "President Bush's soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world."
To be fair, we have a long history of coddling despots while trumpeting our support for freedom, but this administration has taken that to an all time high. Our Saudi friends support radical clerics, suicide bombers and even filled the role of 9-11 bombers, yet they are our friends and we invade Iraq. This reminds me all to much of our Latin American policy during the last ultra-right president. We supported regimes that made a policy of "disappearing" people. We should be trying to stop that, not continue it, yet despite his fondness of quoting the Bible, Bush is making it worse, not better.
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