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I see you and raise you the Christian version from the Bible.

Don't forget Salem, Massachusetts

Or the Spanish Inquisition

Christianity has as much of a stain of murder in the name of God as any other religion so take that holier than thou attitude of yours and shove it where the sun don't shine.
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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"

"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

We can't help it that Bush and his supporters are, as you so eloquently put it, "the cause of everything that is bad, or at least not good."

Still, you're the one who compared them to Nazis, not one of us pinkos ...

please do so with at least some measure of intelligence and rationality

Intelligent and rational criticisms of Bush yield nothing, barren "but Clinton..." rationalizations if not silence.

Republicans know Bush, judged on his own merits, is a disgrace, but they are scared to explore how truly disgraceful. They dismiss Abu Ghraib as the equivalent of detaining Japanese citizens and nationals during WWII, but the Japanese were not killed, tortured and sexually humiliated. There is no historical precedent for widespread and systemic abuse in American military prisons like occurred under Bush, and it is not explained by the actions of a few soldiers.

But hey, it's not all Republicans abdicating vigilance. Senator Lindsey Graham called for "repercussions for higher-ups, not just the military police accused of abusing detainees" after viewing physical evidence, seeing the Taguba report and hearing testimony from Rumsfeld.

Some Republicans realize what a disgrace the Bush administration has been. It is not just that Bush's accomplishments are rapidly dimming and fading; it is all that has gone wrong to get us mired in the sands of oil wealth and old-time religion. Some Republicans see the facts, many have only the courage to respond to cheap shots.

What this country needs is more Republicans willing to admit that Bush was distracted as the 9/11 attacks transpired, overreacted to compensate, trusted advisors who were distorting the known intelligence, allowed Karl Rove's political goals to influence his decisions and exercised little control over Donald Rumsfeld's highly privatized military as it sucked money and moral authority from America's treasury.

But still your duress, my friend, the Democrats are uniting with you on being willing to coast through two more years of misguided, dishonest and corrupt leadership in hopes that things won't get any worse.

One more thing. You have the name of the affliction wrong. It is not Bush Derangement Syndrome. It is Rumsfeld-Cheney-Rove-Feith-Libby-Chalabi-Cambone-White-Rice-Bush Derangement Syndrome. RCRFLCCWRBDS for short, or affectionately, Ricebush Rum blight. Please update your vocabulary.