The US uses state sponsored terrorism all the time, Frank. Remember "Shock and Awe"? If that wasn't state sponsored terrorism, I don't know what is. By definition, terrorism is the use of tactics that produce fear and/or terror in people in order to get a specific result and/or to control people's behavior. This use of the word "terrorist" to categorize any people of whom certain governments dissaprove, which the Bush regime seems to have popularized, is probably what you are taking exception to.