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From: Oakland Tribune | Date: September 5, 2006 | Copyright information

THE TERM "Islamo-fascist" and the inference that the war on terrorism is now a war on a new wave of fascism, as delivered in Donald Rumsfeld's recent address to the American Legion, is the new marketing campaign of the Bush Administration and its reason to continue the occupation of Iraq.

Apparently, Rumsfeld and Bush were missing from their Political Science 101 classes the day fascism was discussed.

The term fascism refers to "an ideology characterized by fervent nationalism,...

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