Re: "Please don't kill me."-- W.

It's all so very simple:

If you want your Christianity served up with BULL***,
then throw your lot in with George W. Bush and the RePIGlicans.
Or,
if you want your Christianity free of BULL***,
free yourself from ANY involvement with
' The Asses of Evil ',
above.

CALC

"kathleen" <kathleen.dickson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Concerns Raised by the Vatican
>
> by WAYNE MADSEN
>
> George W. Bush proclaims himself a born-again Christian. However, Bush
> and fellow self-anointed neo-Christians like House Majority Leader Tom
> DeLay, John Ashcroft, and sports arena Book of Revelations carnival
> hawker Franklin Graham appear to wallow in a "Christian" blood lust
> cult when it comes to practicing the teachings of the founder of
> Christianity. This cultist form of Christianity, with its emphasis on
> death rather than life, is also worrying the leaders of mainstream
> Christian religions, particularly the Pope.
>
> One only has to check out Bush's record as Governor of Texas to see his
> own preference for death over life. During his tenure as Governor, Bush
> presided over a record setting 152 executions, including the 1998
> execution of fellow born-again Christian Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted
> murderer who later led a prison ministry. Forty of Bush's executions
> were carried out in 2000, the year the Bush presidential campaign was
> spotlighting their candidate's strong law enforcement record. The
> Washington Post's Richard Cohen reported in October 2000 that one of
> the execution chamber's "tie-down team" members, Fred Allen, had to
> prepare so many people for lethal injections during 2000, he quit his
> job in disgust.
>
> Bush mocked Tucker's appeal for clemency. In an interview with Talk
> magazine, Bush imitated Tucker's appeal for him to spare her life -
> pursing his lips, squinting his eyes, and in a squeaky voice saying,
> "Please don't kill me."
>
>
> That went too far for former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer,
> himself an evangelical Christian. "I think it is nothing short of
> unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president
> thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death,"
> said Bauer.
>
>
> A former Texas Department of Public Safety officer, a devout Roman
> Catholic, told this reporter that evidence to the contrary, Bush was
> more than happy to ignore DNA data and documented cases of
> prosecutorial misconduct to send innocent people to the Huntsville,
> Texas lethal injection chamber. He said the number of executed mentally
> retarded, African Americans, and those who committed capital crimes as
> minors was proof that Bush was insensitive and a "phony Christian."
> When faced with similar problems in Illinois, Governor George Ryan, a
> Republican, commuted the death sentences of his state's death row
> inmates and released others after discovering they were wrongfully
> convicted. Yet the Republican Party is pillorying Ryan and John
> Ashcroft's Justice Department continues to investigate the former
> Governor for political malfeasance as if Bush and Ashcroft are without
> sin in such matters. Hypocrisy certainly rules in the Republican Party.
>
> Bush's blood lust has been extended across the globe. He has given the
> CIA authority to assassinate those deemed a threat to U.S. national
> interests. Bush has virtually suspended Executive Orders 11905 (Gerald
> Ford), 12306 (Jimmy Carter), and 12333 (Ronald Reagan) which prohibit
> the assassination of foreign leaders. Bush's determination to kill
> Saddam Hussein, his family, and his top leaders with precision-guided
> missiles and tactical nuclear weapon-like Massive Ordnance Air Blast
> (MOAB) bombs is yet another indication of Bush's disregard for his
> Republican and Democratic predecessors. It now appears that in his zeal
> to kill Hussein, innocent civilian patrons of a Baghdad restaurant were
> killed by one of Bush's precision Joint Direct Attack Munitions
> (JDAMs). Like it or not, Saddam Hussein was recognized by over 100
> nations as the leader of Iraq -- a member state of the United Nations.
> Hussein, like North Korea' Kim Jong Il, Syria's Bashir Assad, and
> Iran's Mohammed Khatami, are covered by Executive Order 12333, which
> the Bush mouthpieces claim is still in effect. Bush's "Christian" blood
> cult sees no other option than death for those who become his enemies.
> This doctrine is found no place in Christian theology.
>
> Bush has not once prayed for the innocent civilians who died as a
> result of the U.S. attack on Iraq. He constantly "embeds" himself with
> the military at Goebbels-like speech fests and makes constant
> references to God when he refers to America's "victory" in Iraq, as if
> God endorses his sordid killing spree. He makes no mention of the
> children, women, and old men killed by America's "precision-guided"
> missiles and bombs and trigger-happy U.S. troops. In fact, Bush revels
> in indiscriminate blood letting. Since he never experienced such
> killing in Southeast Asia, when he was AWOL from his Texas Air National
> Guard unit, Bush just does not seem to understand the horror of a
> parent watching one's children having their heads and limbs blown off
> in a sudden blast of shrapnel or children witnessing their parents
> burning to death with their own body fat nurturing the flames.
>
> Bush and his advisers, previously warned that Iraq's ancient artifacts
> and collection of historical documents and books were in danger of
> being looted or destroyed, instead, sat back while the Baghdad and
> Mosul museums and Baghdad Library were ransacked and destroyed. Cult
> leaders have historically attempted to destroy history in order to
> invent their own. The Soviets tried to obliterate Russia's Orthodox
> traditions, turning a number of churches into warehouses and animal
> barns. Cambodia's Pol Pot tried to wipe out Buddhism's famed Angkor Wat
> shrine in an attempt to stamp out his country's Buddhist history. In
> March 2001, while they were negotiating with the Bush administration on
> a natural gas pipeline, Afghanistan's Taliban blew up two massive
> 1600-year old Buddhas in Bamiyan. The Bush administration, itself run
> by fanatic religious cultists, barely made a fuss about the loss of the
> relics. It would not be the first time the cultists within the Bush
> administration ignored the pillaging of history's treasures.
>
> The ransacking of Iraq's historical treasures is explainable when one
> considers what the blood cult Christians really think about Islam.
> Franklin Graham, the heir to the empire built up by his anti-Semitic
> father, Billy Graham, has decided being anti-Muslim is far more
> financially rewarding than being anti-Jewish. Billy Graham, history
> notes from the Nixon tapes, complained about the Jewish stranglehold on
> the media and Jews being responsible for pornography.
>
> Franklin Graham continues to enjoy his father's unfettered and
> questionable access to the White House. But in the case of Bush, the
> younger Graham has a fanatic adherent. Graham has called Islam a "very
> evil and wicked" religion. He then announces he wants to go to Iraq.
> Graham obviously sees an opportunity to convert Muslims and unrepentant
> Eastern Christians, who owe their allegiance to Roman and Greek
> prelates, to his perverted form of blood cult Christianity. Graham says
> he is ready to send his Samaritan's Purse missionaries into Iraq to
> provide assistance. Muslims and mainstream Christians are wary that
> Graham wants to exchange food, water, and medicine for the baptism of
> Iraqis into his intolerant brand of Christianity. In the last Gulf War,
> Graham could not get away with his chicanery. The Desert Storm
> Commander, General Norman Schwarzkopf, stopped dead in the tracks
> Graham's plan to send 30,000 Arabic language Bibles to U.S. troops in
> Saudi Arabia. Today's Pentagon shows no such compunction to put a rein
> on Graham. It invited him to give a Good Friday sermon at the Pentagon
> to the consternation of the Defense Department's Muslim employees. To
> make matters worse, under Bush's "Faith Based Initiative," Graham's
> Samaritan's Purse stands to receive U.S. government funds for its
> proselytizing efforts in Iraq, something that should be an affront to
> every American taxpayer.
>
> Bush's self-proclaimed adherence to Christianity (during one of the
> presidential debates he said Jesus Christ was his favorite
> "philosopher") and his constant reference to a new international
> structure bypassing the United Nations system and long-standing
> international treaties are worrying the top leadership of the Roman
> Catholic Church. Well-informed sources close to the Vatican report that
> Pope John Paul II is growing increasingly concerned about Bush's
> ultimate intentions. The Pope has had experience with Bush's death
> fetish. Bush ignored the Pope's plea to spare the life of Karla Faye
> Tucker. To show that he was similarly ignorant of the world's
> mainstream religions, Bush also rejected an appeal to spare Tucker from
> the World Council of Churches - an organization that represents over
> 350 of the world's Protestant and Orthodox Churches. It did not matter
> that Bush's own Methodist Church and his parents' Episcopal Church are
> members of the World Council.
>
> Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and
> his constant references to "evil doers," in the eyes of many devout
> Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the
> Book of Revelations - the anti-Christ. People close to the Pope claim
> that amid these concerns, the Pontiff wishes he was younger and in
> better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the
> person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the
> world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and
> Evil as foretold in the New Testament. Before he became Pope, Karol
> Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now standing in the face of the greatest
> historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that
> wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian
> community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation
> between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the
> anti-Gospel." The Pope, who grew up facing the evils of Hitler and
> Stalin, knows evil when he sees it. Although we can all endlessly argue
> over the Pope's effectiveness in curtailing abuses within his Church,
> his accomplishments external to Catholicism are impressive.
>
> According to journalists close to the Vatican, the Pope and his closest
> advisers are also concerned that the ultimate acts of evil - the
> September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon -
> were known in advance by senior Bush administration officials. By
> permitting the attacks to take their course, there is a perception
> within the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy that a coup d'etat was
> implemented, one that gave Bush and his leadership near-dictatorial
> powers to carry out their agenda.
>
> The Pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on the UN
> Security Council to oppose Bush's war resolution on Iraq. Vatican
> sources claim they had not seen the Pope more animated and determined
> since he fell ill to Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the Pope did
> convince the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon, and Guinea to oppose
> the U.S. resolution. If one were to believe in the Book of Revelations,
> as the Pope fervently does, he can seek solace in scoring a symbolic
> victory against the Bush administration. Whether Bush represents a
> dangerous right-wing ideologue who couples his political fanaticism
> with a neo-Christian blood cult (as I believe) or he is either the
> anti-Christ or heralds one, the Pope should know he has fought the good
> battle and has gained the respect and admiration of many non-Catholics
> around the world.
>
> Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and
> columnist. He wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth.
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen04222003.html
>


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