For those of you who don't remember Joseph Williams, he's the poor shmuck who disputed President Bush's Nigerian Yellow-cake Story and who's wife was subsequently outed by the Bush administration and Robert Novak. Geov Parrish caught up with him and got a very interesting interview on where the War on Terror should go from here and on the odds of Democracy in the Middle East.
He concludes his essay with this bit. "GP: Last question. With all of these grim issues, what gives you hope within all this?
JW: One of the things that has given me hope is having had the opportunity to go around my own country. I've been to Iowa several times, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Massachusetts, California several times, I was supposed to be in Arizona today. ... I find that there is still no finer people than the American people, and there is no better system than the one that we have. And it is well worth fighting for and it is a democracy that's well worth taking back from those who have usurped it and taken it into their own hands.
You know it just sounds like supporting President Bush isn't a prerequisite to loving your country.
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