Back in Texas they just know God’s on his side

[emad]

Sunday Times
Sarah Baxter



THE WIND whistles through Midland, a remote town in Texas surrounded by open fields where nodding donkeys silently extract oil from the ground. It was here in the 1950s that the future President George W Bush spent years as a boy and later returned to find his faith in God.

While many Europeans remain cynical over Bush’s impassioned rhetoric about spreading liberty around the globe, the president’s old friends from Midland are in no doubt that it springs from his religious convictions.

Although it has fewer than 100,000 people, this unprepossessing town has become an unexpected hub of activism for international human rights and the promotion of democracy.

Local evangelical Christians have joined forces with neoconservatives in Washington to lobby the White House and State Department on issues such as ethnic slaughter in Sudan, repression in North Korea and the European Union’s proposed lifting of the embargo on arms sales to China.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1502654,00.html

[madrchsod]

1. what a load of bullshit

yup,a good old load of texas sized bullshit. didn`t know they had texas sized loads of bullshit in merry old england,hell i thought they just had alot of sheep shit....

[Wright Patman]

2. Can we assume the Midlanders

never shop at Wal-Mart? If they do, they will be building up the same Chinese war machine against which they are lobbying the EU.

Where I live in Texas Wal-Mart is pretty much the only game in town and China is its predominant supplier.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Well, Gawd is a rightwing Republican. Didn't you know?

And, he speaks personally to all the BillyBobs and LorettaSues in Texas.