Why Do They Hate Us?

Let me count the ways:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060227fa_fact

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Memo_that_warned_about_detainee_abuse_0220.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article346382.ece

http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/?060227onco_covers_gallery

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/20/content_4202421.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13880387.htm

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/02/barbarian-nation-torturers-win.html


What?

"You've got it backwards, you idiot!"I shout at the television
The clown who calls himself our President
claims they hate us
for our freedom
and not
for what we do
to their countries
to their cultures
to their loved ones
to their children
to each other
to ourselves
to the earth

Stop it!