A fews comments:
(1) BUsh's "concern with Saddam" (read: Iraq) has little if
anything to do with ensuring future electoral success (although I'm
sure this is obviously a concern of his) and almost entirely to do
with gaining control of oil fields, installing american "friendly" Iraqi
vassals, installing the upteemth U.S. base in the world, geopolitics,
etc.
(2) This problem is/was American created. The whole twin-towers
affair was just a convenient (albeit every plausible) excuse for Bush
and his "allies" to continue their war drive against thier foes (read:
their wanting to rid the world of any opposition to American-style
capitalism and western occupation, western hegemony,
authoritarian rule, un-democratic tendencies, etc). Moroever, there
is considerable evidence to suggest that the American government
WAS behind this entire event; and if not behind it, knew about it,
and did nothing to prevent it.
(3) It's questionable whether this Bin Laden character is even alive.
I have to wonder, for example, how the supposedly most wanted
man in the world (read: of the U.S. elite) is able to repeatedly evade
capture from the police men of the world (i.e., U.S.-led western
"peacekeepers"[sic!!]), and even with a substantial bounty on his
head?
(4) Bush and Blair call themselves "Christians" for one or perhaps
all of the following reasons together: so as to cater to their
constituents; to present themselves as moral individuals as
opposed to ravaging, genocidal maniacs; to trick people into
beleiving that their policies are actually driven by moralistic
concerns as opposed material concern, self-interest, geo-politics,
etc; cause they know that most westerners are gullible, are sheep
who believe 80 to 90 percent of what they hear spoken of by
government, and other insitutions of social control, etc; because
government always says the opposite of what it believes, and
always does the opposite of what it says. Take your pick.
(5) I don't think criticizing Bush and Blair's supposed dedicatioin (?)
to "their" faith stems out of any deep concern with Christianity, as
opposed the hypocrisy of two men portraying themselves as moral
human beings, yet simultaneously being responsible for inflicting
so much hardship, suffering (not least, bloodshed) on the rest of
the world.
David
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From: Larry Arnold <larry@LARRY-
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Subject: Re: Continuation of religion/disability
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> I cannot help thinking that Bush with his Winston Churchill
fixation is
> intent upon doing a Maggie Thatcher to ensure his electoral
success by going
> down as the guy who finally did for Saddam, as Maggie did to
Galtieri but
> solving nothing in the process.
>
> It was some guys masquerading as airline pilots, intent upon a
Jihad that
> started this current round of renewed hostilities. You can all
sleep safe in
> your beds though that my eyesight is such that I am never likely
to get a
> pilots licence as I am not even allowed to drive a bus.
>
> To return to the point, Bush and Blair may call themselves
Christians as
> much as Osama bin Laden may call himself a Muslim. You
cannot define either
> faith merely by what some of its adherents do in it's name.
>
> The attack upon Bush and Blair can be seen as has been
pointed out, not so
> much as an attack on there supposed hypocrisy but an attack
upon the
> religion (and by implication faith in general) which they
ostennsibly
> espouse and a general excuse for an outbreak of faith bashing
form those
> whose atheist and humanistic perspective is no less a profession
of "faith"
> than any other and equally unprovable as an eternal verity.
>
> Larry
>
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> >
> > I am not sure what this means.
> >
> > Timothy Lillie, PhD
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