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It's not our freedom?

Apparently a Pentagon study has discovered that Muslims do not 'hate our freedom'. This breakthrough revelation came in this: Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication, a 111-page PDF. Since the report is so long, here's a Christian Science Monitor story summarizing it. From the Monitor's story, the conclusion of the report:

'Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies [the report says]. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states. Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy.'

The report is from an independent panel set up to advise the Secretary of Defense.

And what about the election?
The best indicator of our freedom is knowing our elections are working. So it's good that so many people are worried. Nov3.us is still monitoring the results, and has a long list of prominent supporters including Rev. Jesse Jackson. Green candidate David Cobb is also monitoring the vote questions around the country.
And for an extreme analysis of the election, there's this in Online Journal by Wayne Madsen: Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election. In this one, 'informed sources' say the election was deliberately rigged by the Bush campaign. There's a followup story, too: More on the buying of electoral fraud by the Bush campaign.
Meanwhile, Keith Olbermann remains locked on the voting questions story, too.
(Some of these links via Sivacracy.)

A personal tribute:
By the way, Olbermann has also written a touching reminiscence about Dick Ebersol, his one-time boss at NBC Sports, who survived that Colorado plane crash this weekend.

posted by liz at 9:39 AM