The ad shows a swimmer and the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120,” an announcer says. “Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. At this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes.”
Humph. Shouldn’t it read more like “At this Olympics there will be two more nations … nations that are now in turmoil because of the Bush Adminstration’s imperial policies.”