What Happened to You, Mr. President?

As Bush threatens to veto the bill expanding children's health care, read this excellent piece by Jim Wallis at the God's Politics Blog

Tonight's war message!

Tonight George Bush gets free air time for pushing his illegal and immoral war.

At 9:00 PM on MSNBC, John Edwards, Democratic candidate for president will challenge Bush's remarks with a strong call to end the war now.

My 09/11 anniversary experiences

Three incidents marred my observance of 09/11/01. The following statements prove to me we have learned very little in six years.

General Petraeus in his Iraq War report to Congress, when asked by a Republican senator, could not say that this country is safer because of what we have done in Iraq! He could not say this war was worth the lives that have been and will be lost.

A Buncombe County official interviewed by WLOS TV used the worn out line that it is better that we " fight them over there rather than over here." I am sick of such arrogant language to justify our self-serving attack on Iraq. That kind of talk says we have no concern for the millions of dead and displaced Iraqis.

I saw two of the despicable TV ads encouraging us to "not surrender" in Iraq. One of them tied Iraq to 9-11, which everyone knows is a lie. The other ad featured a soldier calling this country our "sacred USA." As a Christian I resent the use of that word in describing a geopolitical nation. By definition, sacred means "devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose." What kind of deity are we following that would lead us to implement the policies that this deranged administration has put into place - it is for sure not the God of the Bible known through the Prince of Peace! And this President, who believes that God led him to invade Iraq, and to stay there indefinitely, also is following a different God than the one known through Jesus Christ!

Another reason to grieve on 9/11

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Bush just playing us with 'troop withdrawal'

Read and listen to Keith Olbermann's commentary that relates to my previous entry (September 4).

Bush admits he is playing!

Today Bush headlined his Iraq photo-op with a comment about possibly reducing troop levels. But in the new biography, "Dead Certain," he says he is playing until November or December to get those running for president to have to adopt his war.

This puppet president is playing with billions of dollars and countless lives to further his neo-con agenda, to keep this war going indefinitely so Cheney's military-industrial complex can continue to flourish and to keep on making fools of all of us.