So, what's the big deal? Why is the Republican
Party so adamant about violating the separation of church
and state by displaying the Ten Commandments
in governmental facilities? The Commandments certainly
are not reflected in Republican policies and
practices. Various Republican politicians are involved in
corruption and dirty tricks, engage in election
fraud, alter the truth, commit adultery, cut aid to the needy
and veterans and wage unnecessary wars. It seems
that they are trying to garner support from religious
people by politicizing the symbol of the Ten
Commandments, but rejecting their substance.
It's beyond me how folks that fancy themselves
as Christians could support George Bush and his war in Iraq.
Since the war has lasted longer than WWII and
the situation just gets worse and worse with victory nowhere
in sight, it's clear that God is not with us
in Iraq. How could He be?
First, Bush told a pack of lies about Saddam possessing
weapons of mass destruction and connections to
al-Queda to deceive Congress and the American
people into an unnecessary war. Iraq had long been under
control by embargos and U.S. Air Force flyovers
and was no threat to its neighbors as well as us. Bush's
unprovoked, preemptive attack was both internationally
illegal and immoral with the pope and other Christian
leaders condemning him at the war's onset.
Then, there are other atrocities. Bush employed
illegal torture and violated human rights in military prisons
around the world. He deployed tons of weapons
made of 'depleted uranium' from toxic nuclear waste,
which are slowly killing scores of exposed American
soldiers and Iraqis. The U.N. has classified them as
real weapons of mass destruction and are forbidden
by international law. In his pursuit of one man, thousands
of innocent Iraqi babies have been killed and
maimed. Apparently, it's wrong to kill (abort) American babies,
but it's OK to kill Iraqi babies.
This war is all about greed. Securing the Iraqi
oil fields for privatization by the oil companies was the object
in its neo-con inception back in 1998 and remains
the reason for today's continued occupation, which is
generating the insurgent attacks and providing
a rallying point for extremist mullahs. As thousands of our
American soldiers are being killed and maimed,
munitions manufacturers and war contractors such as
Halliburton are reaping huge profits. While Bush
gives big tax breaks to the well-heeled, he short changes
the troops with needed war supplies including
armored vests and vehicles and provides miserable medical
care to the maimed and wounded.
By now, most Americans have seen the light and
disapprove of Bush and his war. But, his conservative
Christian base is still hanging on. In the Bible,
Jesus prophesized that one day there would be those who say
that 'I am Christ but will reject my teachings'.
This prophecy is being fulfilled here. Each conservative Christian
needs to consult his conscious and compare Bush's
actions with the Ten Commandments and the teachings of
Jesus Christ and reconsider his support. Rock
bottom poll numbers should prompt a pullout from Iraq.
Dan Merica
http://cartoons-political.com/index.htm
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