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This is what Palin and McCain are really about: coercive control over the bodies of others; whether it is young men going off to war or civilians who happen to live in countries at war with the US or young women not wanting to have a baby or convicts on death row. Republican administrations have begun to look like totalitarian, Facist states. There are generally no differences between the parties in taxing and spending but a major difference in terms of priorities. The Republicans must control using any tactic they can. Here, they are using the same tactic as the Taliban. Fear.
