You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells.
You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil.
Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despairI think he hits it right on the head here. After spending some time in Egypt I can attest to the fact that the oppressive government there drives its citizens into terrorism. We claim to fight terror at the same time that we support the Egyptian and Saudi governments. How much sense does that make.
2 comments:
is the quote from Obama's book? just wondering. nice quote! go obama!!
Hey thanks for posting this link ... I just found your blog through a friend's blog. I had no idea that there was an LDS support group for Obama - this made me sooo happy. When he announced he was running I posted on my blog about it. Anyway - thanks. You are an interesting writer too!
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