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Barrack Obama Right Again!

Well it seems U.S. officials want our troops to pursue terrorists across the border into their safe haven in Pakistan! I find it amazing that Fox News provides this information without crediting Senator Obama for saying this long ago!  Instead of this wild eyed neo-con Republican SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq that was supposed to be self funded by Iraqi Oil revenue, our nation has wasted time and lives while Al Qaeda formulates new attacks against our homeland from their protected homeland in the Pakistan - Afghan border region! Talk about news media biases! Yes it exist but it is right wing news media biases!


This reminds me of the story of the police who came to the aid of a motorist on a deserted road late at night. The motorist lost his key. When pressed by the police he told them that he lost his car key a mile up the road but since there is no street light there he decided to search for it a mile further down the road since there it is well lighted with a street lamp!

In this era when our armed forces are commanded by someone who cannot even account for his own completed service record and Al Qaeda operates freely “up the road” where Pakistan does not want to provide a street light, one person stands up and tells the truth and he gets attacked for it! Oh I am sure the bleeding hearts who sanction CUT AND RUN American corporations shedding their American identity with off shore Corporate HQ’s to avoid their responsibility for paying taxes will try to spin this latest development by not giving Barrack Obama credit! As can be seen from the video above Barrack Obama not only advocated this but was criticised for doing so! These are the same fellow travelers of George Bush who talk about supporting our troops but give high price contracts to private militias like Backwater to protect our State Department personnel!

Understandable in that George Bush may falsely believe our troop’s commitment to their duty is the same as his when he skipped his National Guard duty! Thank God our military has a higher sense of duty than Bush! But then again we never had enough troops in Iraq for the Iraqi Social Engineering Experiment that Bush and his fellow travelers want us to engage in while Al Qaeda runs rampant in their homeland on the Pakistan - Afghan border!

America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class and those who aspire to be, want this wild eyed inflation producing Republican Social Engineering Experiment to end in Iraq so we can fight the war on terrorism as Senator Obama has proposed!

BARRACK OBAMA IN 2008

Posted on Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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Democrats Letting Republicans Get Away With Iraq

I was one of those who were for the Iraqi War with the “Mission” that our Congress in deliberation set as the goal! We won the war and our President, who never finished his own National Guard obligation, then declared “Mission Accomplished”! Now our President, who doesn’t want to follow the goals that Congress committed our troops to accomplish under “a strict constructionalist” interpretation of our Constitution, instead wants to accomplish a different goal. Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain, want to wage a “One Hundred Year” War in Iraq while the opium crop surges in Afgahnistan! These wild eyed Republicans want to commit our nation to a vast Social Engineering Experiment while the sales of Afghan opium production SURGES to swell the treasury of Al Qaeda Central in their border homeland on the Afghan - Pakistani border! John McCain seems to have a problem not only understanding the difference between Sunni and Shiite but where the Al Qaeda Homeland is!


(McCain demonstrates his Presidential abilities - oops! See Video above)

Yet Senator Obama and the Democrats seem to be getting mired in the quicksand of a peripheral issue! That “issue” being the effectiveness of the Iraq Surge! I am not running for political office! I can speak the truth and not care where that leads me! The answer is clearly, yes the surge is working but who the hell cares! That’s right who the hell cares! Everyone knows that the Al Qaeda Homeland was in Afghanistan under the Taliban until we overthrew the Taliban Government. Now they are in the border regions with Pakistan plotting more attacks against our homeland! The old Soviet Union, which had no problem using firing squads to eliminate rebels, could not win in Afghanistan. Since we cannot afford to loose in Afghanistan shouldn’t we end the social engineering experiment in Iraq!  We have accomplished our Congressionally mandated Iraqi mission! Let’s deploy all our resources on the War on Terror instead in Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan! Our cities could be at stake!

Instead the Democrats allow the Republicans to define the battlefield on this political issue! If John McCain and his fellow traveler Joe Lieberman desire so much to prevent genocide why not forget about Iraq and turn to Darfur? (See the Video Below)


Again I repeat, WHO CARES IF THE SURGE IS WORKING! If we our so concerned about a potential bloodbath what about the already existing GENOCIDE in Darfur!

If we were to invade Jordan then add more troops, a similar surge would also work there too! That does not prove a Jordanian invasion and occupation mission is in the interests of the United States of America! The military does not decide that for America! The President and Congress decide that! The military is to provide the “means to achieve our ends”! The Republicans had better learn the “Lessons of History”!

The Democrats had better learn not simply to “answer questions” but to DEFINE THE QUESTION and ISSUE! Instead we hear Obama answering questions like, what would you do if the conditions on the ground changed?

My answer again is WHO THE HELL CARES! Besides “Mission Accomplished” according to George Bush!

The Iraqi Government wants us out and they are Shiites! Al Qaeda is Sunni and Al Qaeda blew up the most holy Shiite site! The Iraqi’s can take care of the issue better then us with that special Mideast way of dealing with their enemies! If Al Qaeda does find some safe areas then that is what we have “shock and awe” technology for. Well that is unless our CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS don’t sell it to our enemies!

While John McCain and his side kick Joe Lieberman worry about Barrack Obama saying he would “talk to the Iranians”, the Baghdad government our troops are dying for in Iraq is talking to and even visiting Iran! Oh well but then so are Halliburton and General Electric! I guess the Republicans have no problem if stock holders make a profit while our brave troops loose life and limb!

If we are so worried about a “potential” blood bath in Iraq why are we not worried about an “ACTUAL GENOCIDE” in Darfur? Perhaps Senator McCain and his side kick, Joe Lieberman who is constantly at McCain’s side, can answer that! Besides the threat to “our homeland” is not from Iraq but from the Al Qaeda homeland on the Afghanistan - Pakistani border!

In this era of licentious permissiveness ( I love using Republican speak) when wild eyed SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS in Iraq are causing a “surge ” in economic problems in our homeland the Silent Majority demand that Bush follow a “strict construcionalist” interpretation of the Congressional Mandate in Iraq that he was given. America’s Middle Class has had enough with Bush and the CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS that deal with Iran!

Barrack Obama For President!

Posted on Sunday, July 27th, 2008
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Pro-Conservative News Media Biases against Obama

I am sick and tired of the whining effete snobs of the Republican Party who attack Barrack Obama for being one of the few who wants to win the War on Terror! John McCain and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party attacked Barrack Obama calling him “inexperienced” when Obama stated we cannot allow Al Qaeda to grow uncontested in their mountain redoubts on the border. Barrack Obama stated that if Pakistan would not act he would! Now it seems the Bush Administration is coming around to Obama’s inexperienced ideas! To bad CBS does not give Obama credit though they do stick that annoying ad for the first 15 seconds of this video. It’s not mine folks and I will not embed from CBS in the future except to show their Pro-conservative news media biases! (See the Video below)

Yet the news media allow McCain to make stupid charges against Barrack Obama that he would fight the War on Terror in the courts! Barrack Obama took a lot of heat for his statements several months back that he would attack Al Qaeda in their Pakistani border santuary! He took attacks from John McCain and Hillary Clinton, yet the news media don’t seem to care about giving Obama credit when it is due! In the video below which documents Senator Obama wanting to fight the real War on Terror a long time ago,  we see right wing Sean Hannity “then” saying Obama was to much a firebrand! Sean’s co-host takes him to task! Today most forget that it was Barrack Obama who wanted to fight the real War on Terror in the Afgahan - Pakistani border region. (See Video Below)


Oh the whining if this had been in reverse! Yet the Democrats don’t have the guts to point out how the news media can also serve the conservatives. But then again the Democrats are so spineless that they have not Impeached George Bush for lying about the War. Nor have they arrested Karl Rove for Contempt of Congress! One again I ask this!

QUESTION: What is similar to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and why?

ANSWER: George Bush’s completed service record in the National Guard! Like Iraqi WMD neither can be found!

The Silent Majority of Americans, our great Middle Class, would love to see the spineless Democrats stand up to these effete snobs of corporate class privilege and the news media that cowers to them!

Posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Bush’s Iraq War Is Destroying America’s Military Deterrence

Sure you have heard it said that we must stay in Iraq to preserve our defense of our homeland! I believe we must leave to defend our homeland! George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain are destroying our military deterrence! When your potential enemy stares you in the face and there is a line in the sand our enemies will evaluate the cost to themselves of crossing that line! Many PC Liberals AND Neo-Con Republicans don’t seem to understand this second way George Bush is undermining military deterrence that I am going to list here in this post. While this blogger is a liberal democrat I am not a politically correct one! Let me humbly present several axioms that must be understood by both the PC Liberals and Republicans. The first is used by conservatives to ruin liberals not because it is not true but because many sugar fluff PC Liberals are so damned masochistic and they want our society to enjoy a secular version of “original sin” replacing the apple with the sin of enjoying a middle class life style!

AXIOM #1: When engaging an enemy you must be willing to kick ass else you are an ass kisser!

The above AXIOM is why both I and many Democrats accepted initially the Iraq War and why I still believe it was the right thing to do even without WMD! The issue is the social engineering experiment that followed. Remember “Mission Accomplished”? This leads us to my second humble Axiom that the Conservatives don’t seem to understand.

AXIOM #2: When confronted by American military might rogue dictators are NOT motivated by fear that they will be overthrown and replaced by a Democracy! They simply fear being overthrown by our military might!

This now leads us to understand why and how George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain are undermining the Military Deterrence of the United States!

AXIOM #3: When confronting several rogue dictatorships you target one (maybe even the weakest) and if they do not comply you overthrow the dictator and replace his government with a friendly government then HIGH TAIL it out fast. Engage in Social Engineering Experiments only when absolutely needed as after WWII! If we engage in an extended occupation then our “perceived threat” and “willingness to take action” against our enemies is reduced! Our forces and resources will be preoccupied and your enemy knows that!

If needed we could always return and it would be easier and less costly then engaging in a Social Engineering Experiment! This leads us to our final AXIOM of MILITARY DETERRENCE!

AXIOM #4: Know your strengths and weaknesses! Our great strength is our “Shock and Awe” Technology! (Oh dear that is not politically correct). Our weakness is we don’t want to engage in extended occupations and unlike the Germans we don’t like to line rebels up against a wall and shoot them. (Perhaps this might be a good trait to learn if needed when occupation is necessary).

Now ask yourself these questions!

  1. Why should Iran fear us if we cannot leave Iraq for 100 years? We must by our own rules first complete a social engineering experiment in Iraq while Afghanistan reverts to terrorists and rogue nuclear scientist’s team with Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Why should North Korea fear us? If we announce “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq we could then scare Iran and North Korea as more of our military and resources would be free! With our “Shock and Awe Military Technology” we would have a higher perceived “willingness to use it”. But if our “definition of success” requires a social engineering experiment then our perceived “willingness to act” and our “military threat” to our remaining enemies is diminished!
  2. If we are trying to change Iran’s behavior then why are we willing to build an Anti-Missile Defense in Eastern Europe against rogue states like Iran or North Korea? Building such a system presupposes we are going to allow Iran to have nukes! Not to mention that it gave Putin domestic strength in Russia!

Finally we retain our Military Deterrence as long as CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS do not sell our technology to our enemies nor export our jobs. This is a Geo - Political - Economic and Military competition against the enemies of freedom! Unlike PC Liberals I support the S.D.I. initiative! I just wonder why we would build it in Europe to protect them from a rogue state when it is our policy to prevent such states from having nuclear weapons!

America’s Middle Class, which does not benefit from CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS abandoning our shores to invest in the enemies of freedom, can rest secure knowing that at least George Bush has secured our borders and ports! The Dubai Ports deal just goes to show how they place “portfolio security” over “port security”! The time has come for America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class to say enough!

Posted on Monday, May 26th, 2008
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Support Our Troops - Bring Them Home

Why is it that John McCain does not support Senator Jim Webb’s GI Bill? The answer is that he wants to hold the carrot in front of our brave troops so they will serve more tours of duty in the Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! If the troops were to get a GI Bill after serving their initial three to four year enlistments many would not re-enlist and that is public knowledge even admitted by George Bush!

QUESTION: What is similar to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destrucition (WMD) and why?

ANSWER: George Bush’s completed service record in the National Guard. Like Iraqi WMD neither can be found!

We live in an era of licentious permissiveness:

  • Where Cut and Run American Corporations do business with the enemies of America such as Halliburton that has a foreign subsidiary involved in Iran. You know the nation that is sending ammunition to kill our brave troops in Iraq! I guess it is ok to sit down with Iran when it serves the class interest of upper class Americans whose kids generally (some are not hypocrites) do not fight in these wars!
  • When CUT AND RUN corporations like ITT can illegally sell our converted night vision technology to China which can then sell it to our enemies or even use it themselves!
  • When our troops could be safe in their tanks and personnel carriers with a weapon system developed by an Israeli company that wants to sell it to us! Yet our government is more concerned about American contractors who will take five years more to develop such a system! This from the advocates of Free Trade! Oh but these sunshine patriots will wear their Flag Lapels! (See the Video Below).



While the bleeding hearts of the Republican Party whine for corporate America the time has come to give our soldiers a G I Bill that will let them have an education and future! The time has come to support our troops. End the Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq!

No doubt our Arab allies, the great democratic nations of the Muslim world will regret that Iraq does not rise up to their great level of democracy! Let them rush to fill the vacuum. Our job is to win the War against the Al Qaeda homeland in Afghanistan and Pakistan!

As the opium crop blossoms into ever higher world records in Afghanistan guess where the money raised from this crop is going to go? It is going to terrorists who threaten our homeland yet Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain are pre-occupied with the social engineering experiment in Iraq! The American Middle Class - our great Silent Majority demands that the evil triad of Afghan opium money, Pakistani rogue nuclear scientists and Al Qaeda Central in the Afghan - Pakistan border region be stopped.

Instead of worrying about trivial flag pins on lapels the Silent Majority wants America’s service men and woman to have a G I Bill and have it now! Let’s win the war against Al Qaeda Central in Afghanistan and Pakistan by stopping this circus in Iraq!

Posted on Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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Conservatives Need To Learn The Lessons Of History

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews interviewed a true believer recently who apparently mouthed the slogans of the neo-con right and did not even know his history. Barrack Obama who has said he would not stand by while Al Qaeda Central in Pakistan regroups to attack our Homeland, was called an appeaser by National Guard deserter George Bush who was addressing the Israeli Knesset!

What George Bush and his fellow travelers just don’t seem to understand is that talking to one’s enemies is not the same as appeasing them. Chris Matthews really drives home this point with a Neo-Con who did not realize exactly “why” Neville Chamberlin was an appeaser!

As Al Qaeda Central located on the Pakistan - Afghan border continues to grow along with their financially supporting poppy crops, America’s Silent Majority - our great Middle Class, continues to wonder when these effete snobs of the Republican Party will end their vast Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! But then again we wonder when they will stop Cut and Run Corporations from having a subsidiary in Iran like Halliburton does! I guess that type of interaction with Iran is fine with the Republicans!

The time has come for the Silent Majority, our great Middle Class, to stand up to these effete snobs of the Republican Party and their fellow travelers in Corporate America who not only waste the lives of our brave military personnel but also have taken away our budget surplus on this wasteful social engineering experiment in Iraq. Yet in this era of permissiveness we allow these effete snobs of the corporate world to export our wealth, jobs and technology to the enemies of America!

Posted on Sunday, May 18th, 2008
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Senator McCain Soft On Terrorists

John McCain has been critical of Barrack Obama saying that he lacks experience. He faulted Barrack Obama for saying that he would bomb Pakistan and “that you don’t telegraph your intentions to the enemy”! Well aside from the fact that Senator McCain wants to continue the Republican wild eyed social engineering experiment in Iraq, he seems to not understand that Afghanistan is growing bumper crops of opium that finance the Taliban and their fellow travelers Al Qaeda. What’s even more troubling is that Pakistan’s President has stated he does not have the resources to fight Al Qaeda Central which is located in his country. Senator Barrack Obama has stated that if Osama Bin Laden where located and the Pakistanis would not act then he would with surgical precision to kill the man responsible for 9-11. What are we to do wait till Al Qaeda strikes again through our wide open borders and uninspected ports? This war is in Iraq is making America less secure! (See Video below).


When Obama said he will go for the kill concerning Al Qaeda is he wrongfully telegraphing our moves as Senator McCain has accused? Well then if you state that you are not going to act then McCain is giving Al Qaeda Central a free reign! Two side benefits of Senator Obama’s statements are that (1) it would make Al Qaeda live more in fear (2) it would give Pakistan an “incentive” to act rather than waiting for us to do so. Besides who is Senator McCain to talk about tipping your cards regarding foreign policy when he jestingly stated that he would bomb Iran!


In the video above we see how not to telegraph your foreign policy moves according to John McCain!

While this blogger believes taking Saddam down was not a bad idea, our continued presence in Iraq is a bad idea as it is undermining the War on Terror. Senator McCain wants to continue the social engineering experiment in Iraq while his fellow travelers at Halliburton grow richer and the Opium grows higher in Afghanistan!

America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class, has had enough of this Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq which has side tracked the war on terrorism! By the way Senator McCain why are Cut and Run Capitalists running to invest not only in China but Vietnam? You would think that conservatives would place patriotism over stock portfolio now wouldn’t you?

Posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008
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Cut And Run Capitalist Mitt Romney

I am sure we are all touched by the great patriotism of Mitt Romney, first who wants to send your sons and daughters to fight in Iraq while his sons stay home to fight the wicked forces of liberalism by supporting their dad in his political campaign. Well that is till now when CUT AND RUN CAPITALIST Mitt Romney dropped out of the Presidential race because he did not want to loose countless millions more of his own money!


God he made that stupid speech to the conservatives. You can sense at how shallow even they see him now! John McCain has not hidden his emotions concerning Romney. McCain is a “mere multimillionaire”. John McCain as a “mere multimillionaire” cannot self finance his own campaign. National campaigns are far too expensive even for those with John McCain’s resoureces! Mitt Romney is somewhere above the one hundred million mark. If Mitt Romney did not drop out, then since he has a large number of sons, they might be reduced to “mere multimillionaires”! Oh the loss! If Mitt Romney really believed he is helping our troops who are risking far more than being reduced to “mere multi-millionaires” then he would fight on!

What is really pathetic is the Vietnam era type language that Romney and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party are using. They act as if those who want to bring our troops home from Iraq are making America unsafe! This blogger is not a knee jerk PC Liberal. Hell I even supported the war initially and still think the world is better without Saddam Hussein. But we never had the troops levels to conduct a SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq!

Can you imagine it is 1949 and Munich were to revert to control of the Nazis or Kyoto to revert to Japanese Imperialists? Well that is the situation we are in now in Iraq! We should have turned over control to a friendly General who gave lip service to democracy. Hell we have no problem now do we with capital investments and technology transfers to China or Vietnam? Tell me is that what our troops died for in Vietnam so CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS could ship America’s financial and technological resources to our enemies in China and even VIETNAM while they make a profit? Yet the bleeding hearts of the Republican party whine for these corporations that forsake their “American Identity” to now self style themselves as “Multinational Corporations”. Are China and VIETNAM democracies? Oh maybe China and Vietnam are the “role models” of Bush type Democracy that the CUT AND RUN CAPITALIST$ want Iraq to emulate! Now I $ee, don’t you?

Just look at the accomplishments of the Republicans under Bush. Don’t forget under the first six years they also controlled both Houses of Congress. What did they do to preserve our Homeland?

  • They are not supporting our troops in Afghanistan. Opium production is at an all time high while Al Qaeda in Afghanistan is gaining strength. Next door in Pakistan rogue radical Islamic nuclear scientists can now team their knowledge with Afghan opium money and Al Qaeda operatives as their “delivery system”! But what worry over a mushroom cloud over our cities? Hell no Iraq is so much more important!
  • Our nation’s borders are wide open. No need to worry terrorists can now use trucks to cross our borders from Mexico!
  • Al Qaeda operatives don’t have to swim the ocean instead George Bush and his fellow travelers wanted to surrender our ports to the United Arab Emirates. You know the nice folks who allowed centrifuges to go through their nation to Pakistan and made the Pakistani bomb possible! Portfolio Security not port security is the slogan of the Republicans!
  • While the Port deal was killed none the less there is no serious screening for bombs and nuclear material at our ports and Airports.
  • Halliburton, the great role model of CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS is moving their CEO to Dubai. They even have a subsidiary in Iran!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority; our great Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to support Individual Freedom from it’s subjugation to the agenda of the effete snobs of Corporate Collectivism!

God Bless The Middle Class!

God Bless America!

Stand Up For America against these effete snobs of CUT AND RUN CAPITALISM!

Posted on Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Under: Corporate America, George Bush, Iraq War, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Terrorism, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Report Finds Homeland Security A Mess

Well it appears that while George Bush and his fellow travelers continue to involve our nation in their “social engineering” experiment in Iraq, our national preparation level has sunk to an all time low! Well look at the bright side at least our nation’s ports are not being managed by the United Arab Emirates. Thank God George Bush was not able to advance the cause of upper class “portfolio security” ahead of “port security”! Our Army Reserve and National Guard are being bled dry in Iraq years after “Mission Accomplished” while opium production is reaching all time high levels in Afghanistan and that nation falls further into Al Qaeda control! The combination of opium profits for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, renegade nuclear scientists in Pakistan and our unsecured borders do not seem to upset the “Great Decider” and his minions in the Republican Party.


But the above report should come as no surprise as even our nation’s readiness for a natural disaster from hurricanes is at stake and was discussed in Congress last April. (See the Video Below).


Some members of the Vermont Legislature have decided to pass a bill that would declare President Bush’s authorization to call up the Vermont National Guard to be void as the authorization was for a mission that was already accomplished! Senator McCain apparently does not know about “Mission Accomplished”. Al Qaeda in Afghanistan apparently is also not an issue for McCain. The question is for those in the Republican Primary:

What about a STRICT CONSTRUCTIONALIST interpretation of the Constitution? What gives George Bush the right to create a “new unauthorized mission” for our troops? You know the very National Guard and Army Reserve that he never fully attended? McCain and his fellow travelers are going tor the “feels good” solution! The problem is we are a nation of laws. But then again what the hell we have no national borders anyway the laws that regulated them are violated daily? But corporate America needs cheap labor! These right wing fear mongers talk about genocide occurring in Iraq. What about what is going on in:

  • Darfur
  • Kenya
  • And soon perhaps Chad

Yet these “champions of democracy” have turned a deaf ear to the cries of the oppressed in these lands! The time has come for our nation’s middle class to demand accountability from those who hold office in our land!

Posted on Monday, February 4th, 2008
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Bhutto: Martyr For Islam Not Because Of Islam

I am deeply saddened by the death of this brave woman. She joins President Sadat of Egypt in dying for peace. She surpasses Sadat in that she also died for democracy! Oh yes we will now be treated to the hate rant of many of my fellow Christians who just don’t want to remember the Inquisition or the Opium War! The latter fought by members of my own Anglican Church to bring the “heathen Chinese” the joys of addiction to opium in Jesus name! Does this mean I believe Jesus would sanction those scandals? Absolutely not!

I heard conservatives list some quotes from the Koran that sanctioned killing. Well let me see if I can list some here:

“A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’s work! A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed”!

Wait the above is not from the Koran but from our very own Bible, Jeremiah 48:10! I am an Anglican (Episcopalian)! My church believes that we understand God via:

  • Scripture
  • Reason
  • Experience
  • Tradition

Those who commit barbarian acts in God’s name frequently use only Scripture! By the way ALL scriptures have their particular passages we would like to forget! Islam unlike Christianity, has yet to experience major “secularization”. All believers need to place some distance between their actions and their scripture. Observe the Bible:

Luke 14:26

26″If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters–yes, even his own life–he cannot be my disciple”. - Well there is a nice scriptural passages for a Christmas card!

Deuteronomy 20:16

16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Well now there is a nice thought! Only thing missing is a “Sieg Heil”! These are only a few of many “delightful passages” we would rather forget! Our religion is guided by “Reason” not just Scripture. We create “Theological Rosaries” by weaving the passages that suit our understanding of the Divine. Then we blank out the rest. With Christianity’s “Evolution” we have created a string of passages to form a “Theological Rosary” that is more spiritual and humanistic! - Thank God! Let’s allow the Muslims the same opportunity, after all Bhutto was a Muslim!

Now observe this passage from the Koran:

2:177 It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets; and giveth wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the God-fearing.

Yes we have to be careful about the Islamic World while they go through their evolution to secularization and liberalization from “Solo Scriptura” to the four fold method I listed above. But Christianity and Judaism are not inherently superior to Islam. We simply went through an evolutionary process that they are behind in. We went through this earlier, probably since we splintered into not just Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox, but even within the Protestant fold there were many warring fractions in close geographic proximity. We learned to live with our EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY! Don’t get the idea that Holy Wars are simply a religious phenomena to reduce EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY! Not at all! Do you remember the Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge or Maoist China? Atheists just love to say that the latter do not reflect the “real Atheists”. Well why not give the same consideration to Muslims, Christians and Jews? Let me also present for your consideration my religion website, that I admit has been neglected by myself.

www.AquarianFreeThinker.Com

Finally Pakistan, in one way, is more advanced then we are! They already had a woman as the “Head of Government”.

Posted on Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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