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My only quibble is the presumption that telling Bush to fuck himself constitutes a repudiation of "the U.S." It's time to consistently articulate the fact that Bush represents nothing more than the disease of Republicanism, and is no more a legitimate representative of the United States than Marshal Petain was of France. He isn't "our" president, he is the leader of a cult of racist, authoritarian religious fanatics, and the measure of any real American's patriotism is the degree to which he'd like to spit in his goddamn face.