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Fundamentalist Christians and the War on Islam

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We are waging a war against Islam with the support and backing of many Christian groups in this country. The government has portrayed Muslims as “Islamo-fascists” and “radical fundamentalists” that will stop at nothing until they achieve world domination. We make much about the al-Qaeda “cells” that are working with the “insurgents” in Iraq and you would expect that with all the publicity they receive that there must be tens of thousands in Iraq fighting tooth and nail against the American “liberators”. The fact is that there are probably only about 500 of them in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is lucky if it has ten thousand trained troops, if that. When you think of a nation as large and powerful as the United States spending almost 700 Billion dollars to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we still find our forces ‘bogged-down” the thought might occur to many that we are fighting not just al-Qaeda, but every Muslim that resents the occupation of these two countries.

 

We could have captured or killed Osama Bin Laden many times over. One report is that he was in a hospital in Pakistan the day before 9/11, being guarded by Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI. This is the same ISI that wired ten thousand dollars to Muhammad Atta on September 10, 2001. That week Rumsfeld and Senator Joe Biden met with the General that made it happen. This is a known fact and has been verified by countless sources, but the story has still not made it to the attention of the Mainstream Media. It is a fact that two of the largest defense contractors, G.E. and Westinghouse own 90% of the television stations. Does this have anything to do with it? The ownership of the print media by Murdock and Zell and a few others that support the far-right agenda is part and parcel of this refusal to air or print anything that contradicts the regime in Washington. Does the right of “freedom of the press” protect the people from censorship of the media by its owners? Where are our representatives in Washington and what are they doing about this massive problem? The sad fact is that once the media is ‘controlled”. The government and their corporate masters can effectively hide the truth from American citizens. The only way to find out what is happening in the world is to turn to the web for information. The facts are that most Americans don’t do this. They seem content to watch corporate controlled news outlets and they believe that they are getting unbiased news.

 

As long as the defense contractors and other entities are making huge profits from the wars we are involved in, there is no overwhelming need to stop these wars. The demonstrations throughout this nation in the last half of 2007 barely made a ripple in the MSM. The march on Washington had an estimated 100,000 people that attended. The media outlets chose to cover the pro-war segment of the demonstration. “The Gathering of Eagles” that had about 100 people.

 

We hear nothing about the catastrophic use of depleted uranium munitions. The UN has designated them “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and nations are forbidden to use them. The truth is that not only are we using them in Iraq and Afghanistan and turning these nations into radiological cesspits, but we are selling these weapons to our allies in 17 nations. We are poisoning these two nations we are fighting in. The half-life of these weapons which have vaporized and gotten into the land and water, has a half-life of 4.5 Billion years. These weapons will produce cancers and birth defects in these nations forever.  Not only have we contaminated Iraq and Afghanistan, but the weapons of mass-destruction that were destroyed in the First Gulf War and contaminated out troops so badly that 200,000 out of 600,000 that fought there are on VA medical disability. The VA doesn’t test for radiological contamination of soldiers and they are diagnosed with “mental problems” such as PTSD. The saddest part of all of this is that Don Rumsfeld sold these chemical and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein, an estimated 5 Billion dollars worth while he was CEO of the pharmaceutical company Searle between the years of 1985 to 1989.

 

So where are the “Christians” on all of this? Is it because the Christian doctrine calls on their members to have faith in the bible and the teachings of Jesus and his followers that they can transfer this “faith” from the church to the government? A woman told me the other night on my radio show that a Muslim woman told her that the goal of every Muslim is to make the world a Muslim world. Isn’t that the same agenda that the Christians have? We have seen the Christian Churches send missionaries to countless countries to “convert” the people that live there. Whether it was by the teaching of the bible, or by the business end of a sword or gun, they were converted. There is nothing that has been done in the name of Allah that hasn’t been done in the name of Christ. I find it ironic that one of the names given Jesus is “The Prince of Peace”.

 

This country hasn’t been this close to a theological dictatorship in its history. This nation, with all of its fundamental Christian influence in the highest reaches of the government, has never engaged in wholesale slaughter as it is right now. We are fighting wars with hired mercenaries that have no allegiance to uphold and protect the Constitution. They are paid six times more than American soldiers, and are accountable to no one except their corporate employers. These same companies have signed contracts in the U.S. to work in partnership with law enforcement agencies in the event of a “national emergency” declared by the President. What kind of “national emergency” would require the use of mercenaries on the streets of our cities and towns?

 

I know that you have heard much of what I’ve written about. If there are people reading this that question where I get my information, I’m afraid you are behind the eight-ball, so to speak. I wrote this out of frustration and desperation. If you believe that I’m correct in my assessment of what our country has done and where we are now, give this article to a friend or family member or both. We have an obligation to other Americans to share what we have learned in spite of the Mainstream Media. Most Americans are clueless to what is being done in our country’s name. Unless we make people aware of what is actually happening, our representative republic is headed towards the scrapheap of history. The American people need to be told what time it is and it’s time to wake up!

 

This is how I see it.

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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.

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