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Michael Lind is an ex-conservative turned liberal. Yes, a lot of us were Leftists and liberals in our youth. That is hardly a secret. I suspect what upsets him we understand the enemy better than the enemy understands us. I'm flattered at Lind's charge that President Bush and our government is being manipulated for the benefit of Israel. The simple fact of the matter is Iraqis deserved freedom for their own sake after living three decades under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in modern history. That every people in the Middle East would like to enjoy freedom just like Israelis and Americans do is a fact lost on Lind. We ex-Lefties turned conservatives can at least legitimately claim to be remaking history for the better. Its apparent Lind can do no better than whine about everything conservatives promised would happen in this war appears to be coming true. As it so happens, that's now his and the America-hating Stalinist Communist New Left's worst nightmare in America.