Letter to the Editor
Now that Saddam has been executed it's time to declare victory and leave. Bush can tell Americans that the mission in Iraq was to have Saddam executed, get out the "Mission Accomplished" banner, celebrate our victory, and bring the troops home. I think this is as close to the illusion of victory in the Iraq war as we're going to get.
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Does Saddam deserve to die? Of course he does. After all, look at what he's done. He used chemical weapons against Iraqis. He tortured people at Abu Ghraib. He had an advanced domestic surveillance program. People were hauled off to secret prisons where people were tortured.
Now we have defeated him and even though we removed the evil tyrant, we used chemical weapons, and we tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib. Our government is surveillance us and we have a network of secret prisons where people are tortured. Now every day Iraqis torture each other and Americans collect the bodies on the streets as they kill each other in civil war.
For the last 1400 years since the dawn of Islam there has been war, and torture, and killing, and tyrants. Does Saddam deserve to die? Clearly he does. The middle east is full of people who deserve to die. War after all is about killing people who deserve to die. Saddam's execution is but another step in a 1400 year old tradition of vengeance against the evildoers and we hand this down as an example to the children of humanity. Our wars will continue for yet another generation.
If war is about the killing of those who deserve to die then what is peace? Is peace not the point where we stop killing those who deserve to die? So as we kill Saddam tonight I ask this question, "Is it worth it?" Especially when you consider that Iraq is actually worse off now, and that all the bad things that we killed Saddam for are still going on. Saddam is dead. Tomorrow Iraqis will kill and torture each other. As it has been for centuries, nothing has changed. The killing doesn't stop until we stop the killing.
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On the day of President Ford's death people in the news are praising his decision to pardon Nixon saying that Ford "Healed the nations woulds and brought Americans together after Watergate". I am not one of those who share that opinion. Nixon broke the law. He abused his power as president for his own personal gain. By pardoning Nixon he cheated America out of justice and a change to show the world the even the president isn't above the law. Instead America is left with a legacy the high ranking officials who break the law will be pardoned "for the good of the nation".
I wonder if we would be Iraq today and our current elected officials would flaunt the law the way they are today if Nixon had faced justice. We will never know if Ford was chosen because he made a promise to pardon Nixon if he was given the job. I believe that it was wrong for an unelected president to pardon the person who appointed him. Elected officials who break the law should face justice and I hope that we don't see justice cheated again by presidential pardons.
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There are a lot of opinions out there about what we should do about Iraq. Do we stay or do we leave? I say that what we need is a plan. Right now we don't know why we are there or what we are doing. We can't "win" because we haven't even determined who the enemy is.
Not only do we need a plan, but I suggest that we need not just any plan, but a plan that really works. How do we come up with a plan that really works? There's only one way to do that. We have to take reality into consideration. So in order to come up with a plan that really works we have to all commit to a process where we agree to put aside or personal point of view and go with reality wherever that leads us. We can't stay in Iraq without a plan, nor can we just up and leave Iraq without a plan. We have to have a plan. Let us all as a nation commit to reality in forming this plan.
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It's that time of the year to make predictions for the new coming year. What will the year 2007 bring? What will 2007 be known for? My prediction is that 2007 will be the year of the meltdown. I predict that when 2007 is over that the word "meltdown" will be the word that describes the year. But in the long run it will be a good thing because America has turned it's back on reality and melting down is part of the healing process.
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Everyone is asking the question, "How do we win that war in Iraq?" Shall we pull out? Shall we send in more troops? Do we side with the Shiites or the Sunnis? We aren't going to win this war because the war is not winnable. We're asking the wrong question. What we should be asking is, "How do we win the peace?" War has failed, It's time to give peace a chance. We need a plan for peace, not a plan for war. War is the problem and war isn't solved by more war. War is solved by a plan for peace.
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Now that Iraq has degenerated into a civil war, we have to figure out which group to side with. Most Iraqis are Shiite, the the elected president of Iraq is Shiite. Saddam and Osama are both Sunnis. So I guess we side with the Shiites. But - our friends in Saudi Arabia, the guys Bush has been kissing, they're Sunnis. The vast majority of Muslims are Sunnis. And our friends in Saudi Arabia made it clear to Cheney the there were going to have to side with the Sunnis if we sided with the Shiites.
Iran is part of the Axis of Evil, but they are Shiites, just like Hezbollah, just like the Syrians, as well as the leaders of the militias that we are trying to get rid of. So we're going to help the Iranians, Syrians, and Hezbollah conquer Iraq. What would Reagan have done? When Reagan was president we are supporting the other side. Saddam and Osama bin Laden were our best buddies. Wow - this is really confusing. Maybe that's our problem. Maybe the reason we're not winning this war is because we haven't figured out who the enemy is yet?
Fortunately we have a president who has the solution to the problem. Let's double down. Send in more troops. The one thing that brings Sunni and Shiites together is killing Americans.
Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council has been plotting with Bush as to how to rig the Supreme Court and bypass the Democratic Controlled Senate? How is he going to do it? That's a mystery. By if you listen to this audio clip you'll hear Tony Perkins talking about that he is in contact with the Whitehouse and has talked to Bush and that he is concerned about the Democrats in the Senate blocking him. But, Tont goes on to say, "The is a way around that", that they are looking into and that it's going to be a "major major fight". Seek to 24 minutes in to the clip.
Additionally the FRC is dumping their exclusive relationship with Republicans. They are currently "praying about it.", waiting for God to give then the go ahead to get in bed with the Dems.
So - the question is - what's the trick. I want to know what he means by "a way around that". What is that all about? Is there a Christuan Coop in the works to take the Supreme Court by deceptions and trickery? What are evangelicals plotting this time?
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For those who haven't figured it out yet the Iraq war is over and we have lost it. Now we have to figure out how to get out of there and make the best of what we have left. The Congress has a choice to make now. Are we going to face reality or are we going to send more soldiers to fight and die so that Bush can save face? I for one believe the sending soldiers to die for politics is murder.
This is Bush's war. Bush is far to dishonest and incompetent to handle the problems he created. It is now time for Bush and Cheney to resign and step aside and resign. It is time to find someone else to clean up Bush's mess. American should not have to continue to bleed while Bush runs out the clock. Bush can't handle it and it's time for him to get out. Getting rid of Bush will send a message to the rest of the world that America is serious about change. Something that our froends need to see.
Say after me. Bush get out! Bush get out! Bush get out!
Follow this logic:
God is by definition supernatural.
To be supernatural you must be outside of the natural world.
Supernatural and Natural are mutually exclusive.
Anything that can be scientifically proven is part of the natural world.
Therefore anything supernatural can not be scientifically proven.
Therefore God can not be scientifically proven.
Therefore any scientific proof that God is supernatural must by definition fail.
Since God by definition must be supernatural to exist, then the existence of God can not be proved by science.
If God were proved by science then it would be part of the natural world and therefore not God.
BTW - this is a trap to get believers to think about reality. We in the Church of Reality believe that the more you use logic the more you will reprogram your brain to think about reality. Thinking undermines faith. If you think about this it might cause you to question what you believe. You are hereby warned not to risk your immortal soul by thinking about this. God prefers people who don't think over people who do because people who don't think have an easier time of believing without questioning than people who do think.
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After six years of faith based government reality is making a comeback. For the last six years we were expected to blindly follow the government and do whatever Bush wants. It was a Crusade against terrorism that was really a proxy war of Christians vs. Islam to determine which religion has the stronger fictional deity. Americans being asked to surrender their freedom in the name of freedom and to surrender their liberty in the name of liberty.
Bush declared that he was above the law and whenever he broke the law Congress would try to change the law to make it legal. Bush brought back torture from the middle ages with people being kidnapped and hauled off to a network of secret prisons. To question any of this was blasphemy. Money was being spent like there was no tomorrow as if our acts didn't matter because Jesus was coming back and the world was soon to end. And if we all believe it hard enough then it would come to pass.
Now faith is out and reality is back. Now people want to find real solutions that really work. When the new Secretary of Defense said that we were not winning the war in Iraq the Armed Services Committee all voted for him. Now people want real solutions to real problems. Every time faith puts us on the path of extinction America turns back to reality to restore our strength. That's because reality works. Reality changed my life. It can change your's too. Make reality part of your life today.
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Even after the landslide election last month Republicans still don't get it. Newt Gingrich is proposing what I would call "supervised free speech" as a dinner in honor of the First Amendment. Republicans are still using Bush logic. They think that freedom is giving up your freedom to the government. They think that peace can only be achieved through war without end. They think fiscal responsibility is spending like there's no tomorrow. They shred the constitution and call it patriotism.
Republicans have no chance of winning in 2008 for the same reason they lost in 2006. That reason - George W Bush. If the voters don't like Bush now they definitely won't like him 2 years from now. So Republican will either have to embrace Bush and go down with him, or try to be more against Bush than the Democrats are. Quite frankly if I were a Republican up for election in two years I'd switch parties now because the Republicans are stuck with Bush and he's going to bring them down again.