There has been plenty of fervor around lately on the possibility that we might soon invade Iran or/and Syria.
It seems that Osama's alleged tape asking for a 'truce-or else' could not have been better timed. Incidentally, the tape was reported to have been sent to Al Jazeera, but almost no one seems to have remembered that FOX Inc. bought Al Jazeera out in 2002.
Must be a coincidence.

Another coincidence is the recent come to light story that stories in Iraq News papers and radio, are paid for being pro-US. There is talk that this has gone on for quite a while in the US,-even on blog spots- although it's hard to believe that someone could actually take money for proclaiming the merits of War & Aggression.
But, hey, someone has to pay the bills.

And speaking of blogs, here's one that I recently had time to visit and comment on. Their comments were about their glee in that hundreds of Islamic pilgrims dying during the Jin. I knew they would not be nice, but I didn't know how vehement they would be. They ripped me a new one.
It is evident that they are serious and (many are) Christian followers of what they perceive to be real evil: Islamic terrorists.
I would feel exactly the same way they do, if I believed that 911 was caused by (only) Islamic terrorists.

The idea that this war is beginning to look like an all out religious war is becoming more evident each day.
Put on a religious fever, and logic and reason go right out the window. Suggests things like what does Christ have to do with blowing the crap out of innocent children, and they will tear you a new hole in your body as
they're reading scripture.
This particular site is interesting as it is structured militarily. Even the title is shock and awe:

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler @ nicedoggie.net.

MOST ANNOYING RIGHT-OF-CENTER BLOG OF 2003"Matthew 12:30"


I admit I had to look the up the verse they have on their main page-and here it is:
{"He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad."}
Umm, where did I hear that quoted before?

Rex Kramer, the next major player in political satirist-pro-Americana, suggested I review this article in
online journal, which fits nicely:


The Ku Klux Klan called itself “the invisible empire.” Reagan called the Soviet Union “the evil empire.” In America today the highly visible Evil Empire is the phalanx called “the evangelical Christian Right.”

Woow. Heavvvy.
But remember what Falwell and Pat said a few years back concerning 911?

"Then Falwell said, "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."Robertson replied, "Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven't begun to see what they can do to the major population."Falwell said, "The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen."Robertson said, "I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system."Falwell added, "Pat, did you notice yesterday that the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, the People for the American Way, NOW, etc., were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress, as they went out on the steps and and called out to God in prayer and sang 'God bless America' and said, let the ACLU be hanged. In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time, calling on God."

Recently Pat Robertson has been busy trying to get foreign leaders killed, cursing (in God's name), irevrent sections of America, and lately saying God brought judgment on Sharon for Gaza peace.

He later (kinda) apologized:

"According to his spokesperson, Angell Watts:

(VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.,) January 5, 2006—Pat Robertson expresses his deep sadness over Ariel Sharon’s life threatening stroke and concern for Israel’s future security.
She also expressed Dr. Robertson’s outrage at People for the American Way, who have a clear left-wing political agenda and who, on an ongoing basis, lift his comments out of context and widely circulate them in an attempt to discredit him. "


Really? Seems like if anyone mere mortal like I suggested blowing up a government building in DC, we would be on a plane bound for a Guanbay vacation before nightfall.

The federal Government has been pretty nice to Pat Robertson. Grants to his 'operation blessing' charity, under the bush faith based initiative, blessed Pat & Company with revenue blasting out from a paltry 108k to 14.4 million.
Bush has directed over 2 billion $ to religious groups nationwide in 2004. Funny how many home school church groups are forming these days.
14.1 Million? Christ, I'm beginning to see the merits of appreciating Hannity and Coulter.

It would almost seem as if this was planned.


Shadia Drury, who teaches politics at the University of Calgary:
" Strauss had a "huge contempt" for secular democracy. Nazism, he believed, was a nihilistic reaction to the irreligious and liberal nature of the Weimar Republic. Among other neoconservatives, Irving Kristol has long argued for a much greater role for religion in the public sphere, even suggesting that the Founding Fathers of the American Republic made a major mistake by insisting on the separation of church and state. And why? Because Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control.
At the same time, he stressed that religion was for the masses alone; the rulers need not be bound by it. Indeed, it would be absurd if they were, since the truths proclaimed by religion were "a pious fraud." As Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine points out, "Neoconservatives are pro-religion even though they themselves may not be believers."
"Secular society in their view is the worst possible thing,'' Drury says, because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, precisely those traits that may promote dissent that in turn could dangerously weaken society's ability to cope with external threats. Bailey argues that it is this firm belief in the political utility of religion as an "opiate of the masses ..."

And if it was planned, if Bush really did try to invent reasons to invade Iraq, what other things might have been invented? It kind of begs the question about how we got into this mess to begin with.
How many times does President Bush and Company mention 911 as a shimmering backdrop for rationalization for war, torture, wiretaps?
Having an attitude such as this can get some people's attention. Posting things like this can be hazardous to one's health.
Kurt Nimmo from Another Day in the Empire had decided to stop posting because of threats.
Jeff Wells from RI has said he has possibly been watched/logged.
Alex Jones has said much the same , as others have too.
Though I admire those who stick their necks out publicly,
I have to wonder why they are surprised?
If half of the things these writers say are true, then they have to know that this is no game.
It hasn't been for a while, and the halftime show was a good time ago.