What looks like "freedom and democracy" to George W. Bush looks a lot like military occupation and puppet government to the rest of us.
The president has given us a standard [in his second inagural speech]. Why oppose it when we can judge him by it? When Saudi men vote and Saudi women do not, is that freedom? When the administration inflicts a gag rule on international family planning groups, is that freedom of speech? Does liberty coexist with torture?

[L]iberty also means civil liberties. Freedom includes the freedom to marry whomever you choose and to make decisions about reproduction. And, don't forget, the freedom from want.

When the free market collides with freedom from want, a battle for semantics becomes a battle for survival. When freedom means unraveling the social safety net, who has the moral high ground? If liberty is a sink-or-swim independence, where are our values?
Source: "Amen, Dubya: Another perspective on Bush's second Inaugural Address" by Ellen Goodman - Washington Post Writers Group - 1/26/05




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