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The preceding sound has been that of me banging my head against the wall.

A March 3 fund appeal letter,

which Bush-Cheney Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot sent to new campaign charter members in Florida, lauded the Republican president for "leading a global crusade against terrorism" while citing evidence of Bush's "strong, steady leadership during difficult times."

Crusade? They actually called it a crusade? Again? Despite the flack they got from when Bush did it before? Despite the painful associations the word has for Muslims when coming from a Westerner? Despite the fact that the US calling the "war on terrorism" a "crusade" is a recruiting poster for Islamic fundamentalist extremists?

And Racicot defended it!

Have these people got a frelling brain in their collective skulls?

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