The republican Presidential candidates have taken it upon themselves to declare and judge just who is a religious person or a christian. They and the right wing T.V. evangelists who do the same thing like to play God which show's they themselves are not very good at being religious or christian like. If they had their way they would have the United States in perpetual conflict over religion and desercrate our constitution.
The lands of the Bible we are told was where God spoke to Abraham, Moses and Noah and where Jesus walked. It is also where God handed down the ten commandments to his people. Yet four thousand years later the lands of the Bible are still one of the most unstable parts of the world and religion is one of the major causes of the strife. It is where people kill other people in the name of God and their religion.
Our forebearers who founded our country was right when they separated religion and church from state. Their wisdom in doing so has made our country the greatest place on earth for a people to practice and live freedom of religion. But now comes the right wing concervative republicans who use religion to promote their ideology of religious wars and turn America against itself. The republican base who vote republican no matter what are just as bad. People in the news media who go along with the conservative anti American and anti religious behavior are a disgrace to their profession.
The people of America have the voting power to stop the election of those republican leaders who would like to destroy the separation of church and state for their own anti American and anti religious ideology. Their ideology questioned President Kennedy's catholic faith over 40 years ago but Kennedy was a man who knew how to handle the liars. America needs a leader who can stand up to the conservatives assualt on our country, its religion and its people. President Obama needs to continue to speak out against this outrage.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Is War With Iran Inevitable For The United States?
Only if President Obama heeds the advise of those who promoted and took the country to war in Iraq over WMD that did not exist and are now doing the same thing concerning Iran. The drum beat to go to war in Iran is sounded every day and leading the way is Israel's leader who care nothing about the United States and its constitution. Israel believes in preemption and is the greatest threat to peace in the middle east and the secutiry of the United States. U.S. senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain are two of the leading proponets of war with Iran and seem to toss aside their responsibility for the security of America by supporting Israel's position of preemption.
The President needs to stand tall, not let Israel draw the United States into an unnecessary war and let Israel know he will not approve of any Israel preemptive strike on Iran. The President needs to protect the interest of the United States. Our treaty with Israel does not require us to join Israel in any strike on Iran when Israel is not threatened. Iran is no threat to Israel and its leaders know that. The greatest nuclear threat in that part of the world comes from Israel, India and Pakistan who have nuclear weapons and who's programs have been kept secret from the United States and the international community.
President Kennedy would know how to handle this problem. He faced the same situation during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the same voices of war wanted nothing less than an invasion of Cuba and a preemptive strike. President Kennedy, the commander in chief, was not about to duck his responsibility to the country and let those unelected war voices prevail. Instead he had the wisdom to end the threat and protect the security of the United States. He mobilized our armed forces in case he had to use the war option but Kennedy was a President who knew war was not inevitable. Kennedy knew the faces of war because he served his country in war time. Too many of those war voices then and today have never served their country in uniform. They just like to talk and act tough and let other people's children fight their wars.
President Obama, as the commander in chief, needs the widsom of President Kennedy in exercising control over war making decisions and not let this thing get out of control.
The President needs to stand tall, not let Israel draw the United States into an unnecessary war and let Israel know he will not approve of any Israel preemptive strike on Iran. The President needs to protect the interest of the United States. Our treaty with Israel does not require us to join Israel in any strike on Iran when Israel is not threatened. Iran is no threat to Israel and its leaders know that. The greatest nuclear threat in that part of the world comes from Israel, India and Pakistan who have nuclear weapons and who's programs have been kept secret from the United States and the international community.
President Kennedy would know how to handle this problem. He faced the same situation during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the same voices of war wanted nothing less than an invasion of Cuba and a preemptive strike. President Kennedy, the commander in chief, was not about to duck his responsibility to the country and let those unelected war voices prevail. Instead he had the wisdom to end the threat and protect the security of the United States. He mobilized our armed forces in case he had to use the war option but Kennedy was a President who knew war was not inevitable. Kennedy knew the faces of war because he served his country in war time. Too many of those war voices then and today have never served their country in uniform. They just like to talk and act tough and let other people's children fight their wars.
President Obama, as the commander in chief, needs the widsom of President Kennedy in exercising control over war making decisions and not let this thing get out of control.
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