Bush - attack on Iraq will be one of Christian morality
Yes the religious card is being played from both sides of this crisis. Yet each week even more disturbing reports emerge. Like from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention where US President George W. Bush was described as ?God's chosen man?. Bush sat, listened, then stood up empowered and proclaimed that the imminent American attack on Iraq will be one of Christian morality, that this attack would be, "in the highest moral traditions of our country [the USA]". ... These military leaders want the war to begin ASAP. As they conclude that if you let a 19-year-old sit around for long enough thinking about it, he will soon start to think about what killing means. History does repeat: George Bush Snr?s military tactics back during the 1991 Iraq campaign, led to the creation of, the now executed, Timothy McVeigh "Oklahoma Bomber", and John Allen Muhammed, the 2002 alleged indiscriminate serial killing "Washington Sniper". ... These are the minds being created again by a military that programmes youngsters, ?to the point where they are emotionally ready to kill?. .....................
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The Diversion of Rhetoric Over Reason
Friday, 7 March 2003, 10:04 am - Column: STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
The Diversion of Rhetoric Over Reason
By Selwyn Manning - Scoop Deputy Editor
It is almost springtime back in their hometowns stateside, but right now the sun blazes down, blistering already like days lost in California?s Death Valley. Similarities to this place: there are many like hell itself, descriptions of old lifeless places of Old Testament severity. The Tigris, Euphrates, Babylon, oh yes the King of Tire, Gog and Magog. Names familiar to those from the US Bible-Belt. Weaned on nationalism and, ?In God We Trust?, these soldiers, many of whom were last year USA's kids, line up to sup on the blood of Christ, for their country?s sake. .................
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The Diversion of Rhetoric Over Reason
Friday, 7 March 2003, 10:04 am - Column: STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
The Diversion of Rhetoric Over Reason
By Selwyn Manning - Scoop Deputy Editor
It is almost springtime back in their hometowns stateside, but right now the sun blazes down, blistering already like days lost in California?s Death Valley. Similarities to this place: there are many like hell itself, descriptions of old lifeless places of Old Testament severity. The Tigris, Euphrates, Babylon, oh yes the King of Tire, Gog and Magog. Names familiar to those from the US Bible-Belt. Weaned on nationalism and, ?In God We Trust?, these soldiers, many of whom were last year USA's kids, line up to sup on the blood of Christ, for their country?s sake. .................
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