“The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.”
George W. Bush is on vacation. Every day more children die in his war, while he is on vacation. For five weeks, George W. Bush will relax, get out in the sun, and take it easy, while your kids die. Of what value is their blood to this man? What does their sacrifice mean to a man that thinks nothing of relaxing while they die? A man who thinks so little of them, that he refuses to meet with a mother of one of the dead.
A mother of a slain soldier is sitting in a ditch outside the ranch of George W. Bush. Where is our moral president? Where is the president of family values? This is the persona that has been packaged and sold to Christians across this country and they bought it. Where is the Christianity of George W. Bush? It is one thing to say that Jesus Christ is your favorite philosopher during a photo op, but quite another thing to actually adhere to the philosophy of Christ on a daily basis.
Would Jesus Christ leave the mother of a murdered soldier sitting in a ditch in the summer heat of Texas, while he vacationed? I would think not. There is a stark difference between someone claiming to be Christian, and someone walking with Christ. The Word of God says:
1 John 2:3-6 – “We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
I direct our president, who likes to play Christian, to the book of Proverbs 6: 16-19, where God tells us the six things which he hates:
1) Haughty eyes – Haughty is defined as scornfully and condescendingly proud. That is the epitome of George W. Bush. When he had already committed this nation’s sons and daughters into harms way, he dared the people trying to kill them with empty words of bravado, such as “bring em on!” Refusing to admit any errors, in what we all know is a disastrous war, reinforces that Bush does indeed see his work through haughty eyes. In his world, everything went according to plan. He thinks nothing of using the word “war” 20 times in a speech, but cannot take five minutes for the mother of a slain soldier because the questions she will ask will be too damaging to his image. A man who smiles when saying he is a “war president that goes to bed with war on his mind”, George Bush is not shy about his haughtiness. A child of privilege, Bush speaks regularly about the sacrifice of other parent’s kids, knowing him and his do not have to play by the same rules. The fact that he does all this in a manner that is smug and completely lacking in humility is what makes his eyes haughty.
2) A lying tongue – George Bush is not randomly dishonest. The truth is not something to merely be massaged when it comes to Bush. Instead the truth is something to be assaulted. There are books written just about how dishonest this man is. I will stick with Iraq, since Cindy Sheehan sits in a ditch for no other reason. The Downing Street Memos have now proven that Bush “fixed the intelligence” around his pre-set policy of invading Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, as purported by this president. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, as this president knew. Despite these facts, George W. Bush committed America’s sons and daughters to die in a desert wasteland. To add insult to death, he then comes out from his vacation long enough to tell the cameras that their sacrifice was “worth it”. He says these lies, while Cindy Sheehan waits for him to resemble anything honorable and simply talk with her. On the matter of a lying tongue, George W. Bush certainly has something to reflect upon.
3) Hands that shed innocent blood – The blood of the innocents cries out from the sands of Iraq for George W. Bush. Beginning with the soldiers lost, we are looking at 8,000-9,000 dead American soldiers. These were real people. They had families, friends, and dreams. They believed in service to their country and only asked that they be sent into harms way as a last and completely necessary resort. That threshold was not met in Iraq, not even close. George Bush is proud of pointing out that Iraq is the central front on the “War on Terror”, but what he omits every time, is that HE made it that way. Besides the dead children there are those who are forever maimed from their participation in this horrific war, based on lies. There also are the other victims. The ones we don’t like to talk about. From a Christian perspective, all life matters. It never ceases to amaze me how many people who are fanatical about the right to life movement, are so supportive of death. There have been civilian deaths as there always are in war, but we have blown up weddings in this war. We have killed children. I know people want to cringe away from that and somehow blame the victims, but these atrocities are being committed in your name. The innocent blood is shed in your name. Their blood is on the hands of this president. Be careful what you support.
4) A heart that devises wicked schemes – It is now being reported that the numbers of dead American soldiers is not the more benign numbers we have been hearing, but actually somewhere between 8,000-9,000. The scheme, was apparently to only count the soldiers who actually died IN Iraq as opposed to all of those who died as a result of the war. The Harring Report: Complete Official DOD Iraq War US Military Casualty List details this sinister scheme to downplay the deaths of American soldiers. This is also apparently, why Bush has not allowed cameras to photograph the returning coffins.
TBR news reports on this scheme. Also on the wicked schemes front, is how the “intelligence” was gathered in the first place to start this war. Realizing that he was not going to get intelligence to support his war plans, Bush planted a secret cell in the Pentagon called the Office of Special Plans, whose sole purpose was to cook Intel against Iraq. Using tainted sources, designed to essentially tell Bush what he wanted to hear, this intelligence was then used to launch this nation into war.
5) Feet that are quick to rush into evil – Despite the words of Bush, he did indeed rush into this war. Knowing that the inspections were working he kicked out the weapons inspectors and proceeded to go to war. One line from the Downing Street Memos clearly illustrates this, “There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.” We were told that it would be a fast war. We were told it would be a cheap war. It has turned out to be neither as we were rushed into this evil.
6) A false witness who pours out lies – George Bush schemes his lies. He may not personally be the one saying the lie, but he has other people do it for him. The Valerie Plame situation demonstrates that. Plame was outed as a covert CIA operative, a treasonous act, by people representing Bush. Why? Because her husband had dared to tell the truth about the lies Bush had told regarding Iraq trying to start a nuclear weapons program. Never mind that Ms. Plame actually worked defending this country from weapons of mass destruction. Never mind that whomever she had previously worked with over her 20+ years as an agent would now be horribly exposed and possibly killed. Never mind the money and time invested in setting up her covert work over the years. The unpardonable sin committed by Valerie Plame’s husband, was telling the truth. When faced with that, the emissaries of Bush went on a smear campaign, lying about both Valerie Plame and her husband. There are always degrees of separation between the lie and Bush so he can feign ignorance. When the cameras are off though, there is the nod and the wink.
Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to opednews.com, is dedicated to educating the populace to the lies and abuses of the government. He is a 41-year-old independent writer from New York with political commentary articles seen on multiple websites. A Christian progressive and professional Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and disabled, Mr. Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected officials accountable for lies and excess.
Which denomination does Cindy belong to? Evangelical,methodist, Catholic? Why there are no pastors, priests or whoever to comfort her when she stands in the ditch while the President 'speaks to God'? Where are all those 'family lovers' when the mother grieves for her son? Moreover, where are the great Democrats, where is Hilary, Bill, Joe, Harry, Teddie? Hey, where is anyone?
When push comes to show they betray you. So, why don't we curse them. In this showdown let those who betrayed our trust know that that treason will never be forgotten.
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Mark Sashine (53 articles, 19 quicklinks, 250 diaries, 3574 comments)
on Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 9:14:22 AM
Where Karl (a friend of mine) is is running his two businesses as well as overseeing his people who are helping him get a campaign up and running (not to mention a political party, the American Patriot Party). Karl is unable to be with Mrs. Sheehan in the body, but I'll bet he is with her in spirit. Feel free to ask him; there is contact information (I believe) at the website.
Karl would be a much better president than the one we have, because he would actually BE our president. Karl has a plan to fix our voting problems. I don't believe Bush was elected. Karl would be. And the whole world would know that.
I would like to be able to be with Cindy Sheehan. If I had enough money to go out there and could find someone to watch my cat, I would go stay with her. If anybody will volunteer to send me the money and watch my cat, I will go.
You don't want to know how poor I am. You don't want to know how my life is going right now. It is pretty rough, worse than it was before I made a decision to try to help myself climb out of my misery. I enrolled in a study course and will, eventually, climb out of this misery. But right now, I'm stuck. Everything I have tried lately has gone belly up. I see that I have trusted the wrong people. Won't make that mistake again.
Enough of that.
We all trusted the wrong people when we voted last November. Didn't we?
I'm doing the best thing I can do by sending emails out daily. If everybody will do whatever he/she can do, as Mrs. Sheehan is certainly doing, we can turn our country around. Look what Mrs. Sheehan's presence there has accomplished already! And much of what it has accomplished would not have been foreseen, I don't think.
I pray God's blessings and protection upon her and all of us.
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Liz Ursitti (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments)
on Friday, August 12, 2005 at 1:10:26 PM
No Priest, Minister, or Preacher nor any of the 78 women voted into the Congress has visted Cindy Sheehan in her ditch. NOT ONE.
Ask your's 'Why Not ?'
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Don Phelps (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 12:31:34 PM
George Bush has met his Rosa Parks. Cindy Sheehan has put a curse on George Bush and it is never going to be lifted. In office or out, He is going to have a grieving Mom, or a grieving daughter camped out in Cindies ditch until he dies. And the murderous bastard deserves it.
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Don Phelps (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 12:42:45 PM
If these two states had gone for Al Gore in 2000, New Orleans would be fine today.We would not have 1873 dead soldiers,20,000 wounded and maimed, 30,000 innocent Iraqi lives dead, a national debt a trillion dollars wasted, a Halliburton looting our treasury, polluted air and water, violated forests, and facing a secular country being turned into another Iran.
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Don Phelps (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Friday, September 2, 2005 at 7:14:58 PM
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