You are bound by misconceptions so deep that they have throttled your ability to open your eyes.

Dale, Iraqis didnt bomb Spain. Or London. Or Thailand.

There are 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, who agree with each other about as much as you and I. Some of them are rabid fundamentalists. Most, like Riverbend, are just... people.

The rest of Iraq is peaceful? What do you base this on? Is Fallujah peaceful? I suppose so, because it has essentially ceased to exist.

Our national debt has spiralled out of control. The entire income tax is going to service that debt.

40% of America is one paycheck from the street. That's 15% higher than it was when I wrote it into a song, 13 years ago.

Home foreclosures are skyrocketing.

Our medical system is an international joke.

Your Vulcans, your neocons provably lied us into a disastrous war, where we have provably tortured, raped, plundered, kidnapped, squandered lives and money, traded our precious Constitution away for cheap, chest pounding rhetoric. And you blame Democrats and the New York Times for our fallen international reputation?

Now I have to go to work. I'll check in on your predictable response to this later.