I'm sorry too. The friggin' Neocons give me a serious pain. I have enjoyed the writing on this thread, and you are a sharp cookie. No question about that. I guess I simply see it a bit differently.

The USA is not a fascist country. I had loaded rifles pointed at me at People's Park in Berkeley in the late 60s. Lots of us did. We didn't get shot. We would have been in a fascist state. Fascists don't care what people think. The USA does. American demonstrations are controlled with tear gas, not nerve gas.

When some religious idiots who choose to receive the word of God from people like Falwell and Swaggert (of the 'send us your money and we will pray for you most sincerely' Church of the True God as interpreted by the select few who run this television scam), but who have no real sense of decency at all, try to climb into bed with an American President who can't get his lines right or his facts straight, I think worrying about a fascist religious state is just a bit premature.

Our problem is the Neocon agenda. The religions and the President are really incidental.

Anyway, I am an ass for my remarks above, and please excuse me Strick. Later.

Bruce M