What Wright meant was not the country but the people who ran it at the time.
He was a marine. He actually served unlike those he criticized.

He said this in an emotional manner designed to get his congregation to think about the
excesses and destructive actions of BushCo.

The Republicans picked up on this to discredit him.

He should have said "God damn Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush" and that would have been clearer.

Stringsinger