Hmm. I think I’ll stand by my statement. Unless you point me to something from a terrorist group specifically calling for the curtailing of American freedoms.
You should worry more about domestic sources. Only our own reactionary impulses threaten freedom.
First of all, this was not a “an emotional comment”. It was a selling point to blind off Americans from the real reasons. It was not only that president said it, there were many columnist at that time who echoed similar sentiments. There were many theories presented from “hate of freedom” to “them seeing our western values as threat of their culture”. I guess the smartest ones were those who published books like “Israel and Palestine conflict for dummies”. So please, spare me your own blind belief that you are so eagrly to defend.
Now coming back to the “OP” issue here. The OP in question is a foreigner. A person who believes strongly in American justice system and the fruits of its freedom. The reason??? 'Cause he’s seen enough bullshit living in a third world country most of his life that for him the so-called “emotional” outburst is more of a practice of those politicians that an ignorant audience blindly follow. Not American public or president of United States. Again, emotional outburst cannot justify a reasonable and vastly known logic. For an outsider (a non-American) it comes off as a blindfold to patch up things. An effort to pretend that Zionist interests are not as harmless to US as they in fact are. An effort to disassociate things. An effort to wrap things under the rug.
Then he sees a war on Iraq, and the absence of weapons of mass destruction. And he questions, what is it that’s being told and what is it that’s being believed, and what exactly it is that’s being defended and he figures that may be problem lies in all these emotional outbursts, that are baseless, and in the people who actually want to believe them 'cause it’s a bit too much work for them to think otherwise.