Ministers of War, Criminals of the Cloth

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CounterPunch

According to Philip Lindsey ("Are the Neo-Cons Conning Us") "All the major figures of the Christian right have joined the new crusade to defend the Israeli state and spread Jewish settlements around Jerusalem and in the Occupied Territories. The Reverend James Hutchins, president of Christians for Israel/US, proclaimed that this support was in order to fulfil a 'divine calling to assist the Jewish people in their return and restoration of the land of Israel.' A quarter of a million US Christians have sent over $60 million to Israel while Hutchins' organization has financed the immigration of 65,000 Jews. For both the Christian and Jewish right, Islam is the new 'evil empire' and Yasser Arafat is Israel's 'bin Laden.'" With the three prominent Tele-evangelists urging their flocks to reject the rights of Palestinians to a homeland because the Jews have a covenant with God, with their active and visible intervention in political affairs directly affecting this nation, with the financial support they provide to terrorists in the settlements, with their politically motivated sermons directing their congregations to vote for born again Christians and Zionist Jews, with their loud condemnation of non-Christians and Christians not supportive of the Zionist right wing, they have created a fissure of intolerance in America that threatens not only the pillar of separation of church and state, but the rationale that under girds this nation's tolerance of all religions in favor of the fanatics that demand obeisance to the ministers of war who interpret God's word for him in the Book of Revelation.

The actions of the Christian Zionists are arguably anti-American in their attempts to gain control of the democratic system, anti-American in their efforts to impose a right-wing Christian theocracy upon all Americans, illegal in their incitement to ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, who have done nothing to Americans, through their support of Jewish settlements that terrorize Palestinians, and illegal in their active promotion of right wing factions in Israel that oppose American foreign policy that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state. These militant actions of the Christian Zionists stem from their belief that the on-going crisis in the Mid-East is prophesied in the Book of Revelation. Belief in Revelation compels them to incite their congregations to destroy the infidels. Ironically, this is not the first use of the Book of Revelation on this continent by militant ministers of the Almighty that has resulted in the slaughter of innocents.

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine, the principal exponents of the foundational concepts upon which this country rests, were Deists who accepted the genuine precepts of Jesus, not those that have evolved in the various denominations over the course of centuries. Love, charity, and compassion define Christ's precepts; love of all, charity toward all, compassion for all, that all may live in peace. How anathema to General Boykin and the Christian Zionist teachings as they incite their congregations to war!

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pretty good article on neo-cons and right-wing Zionists here:

New Cheney Foreign Policy Adviser Sets Sites on Syria

Vice President Dick Cheney's office continues to grow as a homebase for prominent neoconservative foreign policy strategists. Earlier this year Aaron Friedberg, a prominent neoconservative China hawk joined Cheney's staff, (China Hawk Settles in Neocons' Nest, http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0305friedberg.html). The latest addition is David Wurmser, a neoconservative strategist who has long called for the United States and Israel to work together to "roll back" the Ba'ath-led government in Syria, who joins Cheney's staff as an adviser on the Middle East. Wurmser, who had been working for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, joined Cheney's staff under its powerful national security director, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in mid-September, according to Cheney's office.

The move is significant, not only because Cheney is seen increasingly as the dominant foreign-policy influence on President George W. Bush, but also because it adds to the notion that neoconservatives remain a formidable force under Bush despite the sharp plunge in public confidence in Bush's handling of post-war Iraq resulting from the faulty assumptions propagated by the "neocons" before the war.

Given the recent intensification of tensions between Washington and Damascus--most recently touched off by this month's U.S. veto of a UN Security Council resolution deploring an Israeli air attack on an alleged Palestinian camp outside Damascus and approval by the House of Representatives of a bill that would impose new economic and diplomatic sanctions against Syria--Wurmser's rise takes on added significance.

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2. check out the Perle quote in there

"Syria is itself a terrorist organization"

This guy is worse than Osama Bin Laden.

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3. This aint nuthin but shit.

I wanna switch sides for a while. I've been having a lot of posts deleted and I want to be on the winning team.

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4. LOL

:smoke:

or try posting as "message deleted"