I don 't hate Bush -- I gave up hating people long since -- but he angers me deeply because his policies seem grounded in bad assumptions and misguided principles. In addition, I am angered by his evasiveness and dishonesty, his brazen ignorance, and his ham-handed dismissal of human concerns. Above all, I am angered by the death he has caused; he has poured a great deal of blood into the sand by his own action, and unnecessarily, with malice aforethought and wicked disregard for the pain he is causing. The boy pisses me off.

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