Back in December, I remember reading about Washington Sen. Patty Murray praising Osama bin Laden for being "out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."

Although she received quite a bit of scorn from some parts of the press, it was during the Trent Lott fiasco and no one really cared about what some "out-there" senator thought about bin Laden.

She continued: "How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"

I guess it's our fault, eh?

And she's not the only one who has sugar-coated the terrorist group – another congresswomen named Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, has made some other outlandish statements. "Even if we take the ground, we do not share the culture," she said. "And in the end we have to learn to coexist in a world with religious states that we may not agree with and find ways to cooperate."

So, cultural differences can extend into the field of terrorism and mass-murder? Wrong. To make such a statement, you would have to ignore absolute truth and morality and believe that such things are completely relative.

"I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day," she said. Maybe she's right, but that's not our business. She apparently backs the theory that if we throw money at it, the problem will go away. Right now, our foreign-aid funding is at pathetic heights.

Rep. Kaptur is shifting blame from the terrorists to America. I guess it's our fault because we didn't give them enough stuff – that's the idea.

"If you think back to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution," the congresswoman continued, "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."

So, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter? Wrong again. They believe, because of their warped religious beliefs, they can kill us. Freedom of religion, in this nation, only goes so far until it begins to harm others and we should look at Osama bin Laden the same way.

Our nation was founded upon morality, justice and liberty – not upon terrorism, injustice or a dictatorship. The statements made by these two elected officials are insane. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe there is no agenda at work here. Therefore, is there really that much ignorance in the United States Congress?

In August of last year, a survey was released by the First Amendment Center that found nearly half of all Americans believe the First Amendment goes too far in the freedoms it guarantees.

When we come to a point of believing we have too much freedom – and our congresswomen praise the efforts of terrorist leaders that kill thousands of our citizens, and then liken their efforts to the American Revolution – I want to throw my hands up and forget politics.

Has it come to this point that politicians forget about heritage and most citizens have never heard of American history and the political process? I hope not, and I pray that it hasn't.

It's scary that an elected official would go so far as to say what these ladies have said, but what's even scarier is that their constituents will probably re-elect them without a second thought.