Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Iraq
Yesterday 200 people were killed in Iraq when successive truck bombs went off in northern Iraq. 200 people. People with families and lives and hopes and dreams and everything else that makes up the human condition. Dead because of our meddling in an area of the world we don’t belong. The lead story on CNN? A crooked NBA referee takes a plea in a basketball gambling case. No dead Americans, no story. The Iraq story? If you can find it, note that it blames the attack on al Qaeda in Iraq, an entity that came into existence only after the United States invaded. It is easy to say that the blood of every man woman and child killed in that country is on the hands of George Bush and his evil Christian cohorts in the White House. The reality is that their blood is on the hands of every indifferent American who’s support of the troops extends to placing a yellow ribbon manufactured in China on the back of their SUV.
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I too was shocked when i saw this headline this morning. 200 people. When you think of how many Iraqis have been killed since our invasion and occupation it literally dwarfs the number of Americans lost on 9/11. If you factor in the difference between the size of the general population of Iraq compared to ours, they are enduring losses on the magnitude of 9/11 on a regularly recurring basis. I can't figure out the math but you get the point. And to think how traumatized we as a nation were and still are after that single event. To think what suffering we are responsible for... in the name of what?
In the name of consumerism and crass materialism and in the hope that by destroying the middle east we can bring Jesus back. In the meantime, before he returns, we all get cheap gas. What a country! We really are ruled over by some very fucked up people.
I agree mate. but the "evil cohorts" are not followers of Christ. they are "faux christians"/ "pseudo christians"/ "christianists"/ "christofascists"/ "false prophets"/ "whitewashed tombs"/"broods of vipers"/ "wolves in sheeps clothing". they bastardize and distort the message and person of Christ. They are, ultimately, Antichrists
I would like to see the believers in Christ condem them for their actions, but this does not appear to be happening. Where is the Pope on this? The Church is held hostage by the abortion issue and won't come out against any group that is so ardently pro-life as the evangelicals. Pro life, that is, except on the issues of war and the death penalty.
Here's a group my friend Jennifer works with: http://www.catholicsforanend.org/
Not to shift the focus of the comments, but I have always found it funny that Catholics and especially the church leaders in Rome aren't more outraged or at least vocal about the death penalty. Wasn't Christ, and countless others of his day, the victim of a government sanctioned death penalty? Crucifiction was then what legal injection now.
meant crucifixion. Bad catholic. I do apologize.
I suppose its hard to speak up against the death penalty when your organization spent several hundred years burning people at the stake for heresy.
agreed. the institutional church is being her usual whorish self in not speaking up more against this heinous war. didn't dante reserve the 9th circle of hell for bishops...
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