The Widening Crusade

[Renew Deal]

Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying
The Widening Crusade
by Sydney H. Schanberg
October 15 - 21, 2003

If some wishful Americans are still hoping President Bush will acknowledge that his imperial foreign policy has stumbled in Iraq and needs fixing or reining in, they should put aside those reveries. He's going all the way—and taking us with him.

The Israeli bombing raid on Syria October 5 was an expansion of the Bush policy, carried out by the Sharon government but with the implicit approval of Washington. The government in Iran, said to be seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, reportedly expects to be the next target.

No one who believes in democracy need feel any empathy toward the governments of Syria and Iran, for they assist the terrorist movement, yet if the Bush White House is going to use its preeminent military force to subdue and neutralize all "evildoers" and adversaries everywhere in the world, the American public should be told now. Such an undertaking would be virtually endless and would require the sacrifice of enormous blood and treasure.

With no guarantee of success. And no precedent in history for such a crusade having lasting effect.

People close to the president say that his conversion to evangelical Methodism, after a life of aimless carousing, markedly informs his policies, both foreign and domestic. In the soon-to-be-published The Faith of George W. Bush (Tarcher/Penguin), a sympathetic account of this religious journey, author Stephen Mansfield writes (in the advance proofs) that in the election year 2000, Bush told Texas preacher James Robison, one of his spiritual mentors: "I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. . . . I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0342/schanberg.php

[ret5hd]

1. If god wants him to do it...

"I feel like God wants me to run for president..."

If god wants him to do it, it is so the whole country/world
will finally and unequivically see how moronic, self-centered,
and destructive the whole neo-con way of "thinking" is.

[Flying_Pig]

2. And why are so many Dems, including leadership, helping Bush,

and PNAC accomplish their goals? Example: Syrian sanctions vote.

Voting to help Israel right now, and/or, for things like Syrian sanctions, is directly aiding PNAC/Bush/Sharon/Likud, in their plans for world wars, ME subjugation, and plans to capture control of the world's oil resources. It will also help Bush's "re-election" plans.

Why would Dems do this?

Continuing blind support for Israel's current government, which fully embraces PNAC and Bush, is shooting ourselves in the foot. When will these Dems start thinking about the effects of their votes, and start putting the needs of our own nation first?

Is a Dem that votes to help PNAC/Bush/Sharon, at this point in time, a traitor? I think so.

[demnan]

3. If he was so influenced by evangical Methodism

why then does the Methodist Church condemn the war in Iraq?

[Bandit]

5. Right ~ He won't even allow his own minister into the whitehouse

If anyone believes the constant lies of Bush* they deserve what they get. I don't feel we deserve it though.

[Magleetis]

4. Zappa

nailed this, he calls it Dumb All Over.

http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/You_Are_What_You_Is.html#Dumb