No, it’s not “just rhetoric”. It’s flat out lies from our government and our media. Even Guiliani, in the first debate, claimed with a straight face that he’d never heard of the idea that they attacked us because we meddle in the ME. He was lying. Bush is lying. FOX is lying. Sean, Rush, and Savage are lying. It isn’t “just rhetoric” at all. It’s a bunch of damnable lies.

Such as “he hates us for our freedoms”, which is total bunk.

By the way, I agree with you here. It’s just rhetoric. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of legitimate reasons he could be considered something close to “Satan incarnate”.

Come on. Are you really going to give Osama bin Laden, the “mastermind” behind 9/11, the benefit of the doubt? Are you really thinking to yourself, “OBL ain’t that bad, he’s just misunderstood”? If so, I really have no idea where to start.

Correction. Make that “require me to have ESP to interpret, let me know.

#5-Yorick, I know very little about OBL, just like you. I certainly don’t believe everything I hear on FOX and CNN about him, unlike many. Such as “he hates us for our freedoms”, which is total bunk. He, and they, hate us for our meddling in Middle Eastern affairs that have nothing to do with us. I’m certainly no fan of his, but I also don’t think he’s Satan incarnate, either.

How do you think Iraqis who’ve had loved ones killed by American troops feel about George Bush?

Never mind the rest of your post, how does this make any sense? The neocons and the media hate Osama bin Laden, too. How do you feel about that guy?

You are like that character in Harry Potter that had a face on both the front and the back of his head. Now which poster, #1 or #3, is he real you?

Sure, Russians loved Stalin. According to the same media in this country that hates Putin, they did. That’s because the American media loved (and loves) Stalin. So they portray him as a popular man of the people, instead of the genocidal thug he was.

I’d love to chat, Michelle, but I gotta get back to planet Earth now.