It’s not just Patty Murray. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is now equating Osama bin Laden to the Founding Fathers.

“One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown,” Miss Kaptur said.

You know, like George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, and all those other religious fanatics who murdered men, women and children by the buildingload to impose Christianity on the world.

Do these people ever listen to what they say?

She has some helpful advice, per the usual:

The Catholic tradition calls for embracing the poor and the dispossessed, Miss Kaptur said. Rather than initiating military action, the United States should try to counter the poverty and repression that breed terrorism in the Mideast.

Not to imply that those conditions are what breed terrorism, but that’s exactly what we’re doing, Marcy. Once Saddam is gone, repression will be immensely relieved, as will poverty, in Iraq.