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Our country is currently spending hundreds of billions of tax dollars–and priceless blood of men and women–in the interest of freedom for the Iraqi people.

At the same time, we are criticizing Taiwan for seeking its own independence from Communist China. The Bush administration embraces democracy from a brutal dictator sitting on top of rich oil reserves. Conversely, when the opposition is a long-time brutal Communist regime–many of whose citizens are employed (at near-slave wages) by numerous U.S. corporations–the president turns his back on the oppressed.