president bush is caught in fulfilling bible prophecy. he must, as he knows, do the bidding of those above him - and yet - he still stands for the bible and for freedom.
I'm only addressing this rant because it is important that non-US forum members realize that an enormous number of Americans do not believe this inflammatory twaddle.
1) US policies -- foisting American culture on the Mid East in the pursuit of oil -- created the situation that resulted in the World Trade Towers/Pentagon attacks. Bin Laden, as everyone knows, was in the employ of the CIA for years before as a not-so-covert agent. He received billions from the US in aid.
2) Bush, like Hitler before who frightened Germans with the threat of possible Russian invasion, exploited the fear and anger of Americans after the attacks, to go after Saddam -- who, as we all know now -- had nothing to do with the attacks nor the creation of weapons of mass destruction. These were all lies Bush told to the world. Documented fact.
3) Bush's aggressive policies have nothing to do with a "Bible prophecy" and everything to do with a vendetta for Daddy (Bush, Sr.) and the lustful greed to position American troops on a part of the world that is one of the three richest oil sites on this globe. The Bushes, by the way, are famous oil barons. Documented fact.
4) Bush is notoriously and famously anti-intellectual and has been thoroughly ineffective as a "leader" during his entire career. It is a well- documented fact that Al Gore actually won the election that first placed Bush into power. Discrepancies in the voting results in the swing state of Florida (where Bush's brother, Jeb, was and is governor) tipped the balance in Bush's favor. It is acknowledged as scandalous and illegal, but the Supreme Court outrageously ruled it "legal." Americans, adhering sometimes to their own laws, abided by the Supreme Court decision.
4) Bush's re-election to a second term was the result of continued American stupidity about the nature of the war in Irag; continued belief in the overwhelming right-wing Christian propaganda that dominated and continues to dominate American news outlets. Pianistimo is the product of their propaganda, further reinforced by so-called Mega-Church Christian leaders who shout down and silence dissenters with the charge that we are "un-American" and "un-Christian" and are, therefore, evil and, as pianistimo has stated clearly above, derserve to be killed. It is a new McCarthy Era in America and most of us are quite displeased.
5) In summation, pianistimo's rant, if nothing else, proves the bankruptcy of the so-called American Christian cause. Where is "turn the other cheek?" Where is "Thou shall not kill?" Where is the logic, morality or ethics in saying the "Prince of Peace" authorizes death to all those who thwart His Bibilical Blueprint? Indeed, I would never follow such a man.
6) My opinion in the US, by the way, is gradually becoming mainstream. The end of this facism, we all hope, is only a few years away. One lives in hope, at any rate (sigh).
7) Citizens of this world outside of America, forgive us for making the American Century a nightmare of botched policy and mass murder. We have become Rome.
Just discovered yet another sock is missing from my sock drawer.
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