Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Israel and Palestine Israel does exist, and we decry all attempts to terrorize its civilians with useless and counter-productive attacks. However, a peaceful world of international civil law can never exist while some people are denied citizenship in any country. Everyone has a right to form governments so they do not live in a brutal state of nature, and so do Palestinians. Israel must accept the existence of a Palestinian state, and must work to provide a level of civil equality for them. President Clinton accomplished marvelous results in the Israeli-Palestine conflict before the end of his term, and the first thing G.W. Bush did was to withdraw Clinton's special envoy and adopt a hard-line stance. This action sabotaged efforts for peace and destabilized the region, led to further conflict and let the violent Hamas group step into the power vacuum. We must return to the diplomatic table in Clinton's spirit of reconciliation, to build a Middle-East world in which Israelis and Palestinians are able to peacefully co-exist. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Friday, August 3, 2007
7:39 AM
But simultaneously it became known that the Pentagon "accidentally" sold a large number of spare F-14 parts, in violation of law, on the open market, and Iran is the only country who wanted them for its aging F-14 squadrons.
It is apparent that the forces of evil are within our own military bureaucracy as well as the Islamic terrorists. The solution to war is not more weapons for everyone, it is peaceful self-leadership from the bottom up — the sheep must wake up and watch themselves, because the wolf wears the skin of the shepherd. Instead of leading us toward peace, they have begun to arm the region from the middle east to south asia for a final cataclysmic showdown.
God gave us our free will so that we could learn to stop fighting. I do not believe that a final battle on the plain of Jezreel is necessary to bring about the return of Christ, because Christ's message is one of peace by exercise of free will to throw off the shackles of violent tradition. It may happen, but that shows you how much Bush lies to you about his supposed Christian virtue... he seeks to hasten the prophecy... a dire and explicitly enumerated sin.
Consider that Bush is the second beast, granted power by the people for another ten years (or so) before the people wake up and take charge of their country. Reagan might have been the first; he was wounded but did not die, after all. Don't be so self-assured of your wealthy, comfortable righteousness. (Personally I think Hitler was the first and Stalin was the second, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet.)
GW Bush - the mad bomber
Bush's solution to war in the middle east is now to arm just about everybody, with his major arms deals for Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. (As well as a French arms deal for Libya announced today.)But simultaneously it became known that the Pentagon "accidentally" sold a large number of spare F-14 parts, in violation of law, on the open market, and Iran is the only country who wanted them for its aging F-14 squadrons.
It is apparent that the forces of evil are within our own military bureaucracy as well as the Islamic terrorists. The solution to war is not more weapons for everyone, it is peaceful self-leadership from the bottom up — the sheep must wake up and watch themselves, because the wolf wears the skin of the shepherd. Instead of leading us toward peace, they have begun to arm the region from the middle east to south asia for a final cataclysmic showdown.
God gave us our free will so that we could learn to stop fighting. I do not believe that a final battle on the plain of Jezreel is necessary to bring about the return of Christ, because Christ's message is one of peace by exercise of free will to throw off the shackles of violent tradition. It may happen, but that shows you how much Bush lies to you about his supposed Christian virtue... he seeks to hasten the prophecy... a dire and explicitly enumerated sin.
Consider that Bush is the second beast, granted power by the people for another ten years (or so) before the people wake up and take charge of their country. Reagan might have been the first; he was wounded but did not die, after all. Don't be so self-assured of your wealthy, comfortable righteousness. (Personally I think Hitler was the first and Stalin was the second, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet.)
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