Get God Out Of The Picture

(When it comes to the Iraq war, that is…).

I bring you this excerpt from today's New York Times in an article by Jim Rutenberg and Alissa J. Rubin (try not to gag)…

In sessions usually lasting more than an hour, Mr. Bush, a committed Christian of Texas by way of privileged schooling in New England, and Mr. Maliki, an Iraqi Shiite by way of political exile in Iran and Syria, talk about leadership and democracy, troop deployments and their own domestic challenges.

Sometimes, said an official who has sat in on the meetings, they talk about their faith in God.

“They talk about the challenges they face being leaders,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss private conversations. “They, of course, also share a faith in God.”

I don’t know about you, but I don’t know of anyone who “share(s) a faith in God,” who also initiates a pre-emptive war based on lies that ends up getting over 3,600 of our people killed as well as many more than that injured or maimed, to say nothing of the same fate for other members of our coalition forces (minor numbers by comparison, but all life matters) as well as thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis.

I also don’t know of anyone who “share(s) a faith in God,” who also lies when taking his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States (witness the warrantless spying, disregard of international treaties and protocols, denial of due process to Guantanamo detainees, awarding of tax breaks to corporations that, in large part, ends up creating the worst fiscal mismanagement this country has ever seen), as well as actually encouraging employers to hire offshore and thus helping to create the worst record of job creation by any president in 70 years.

I also don’t know of anyone who “share(s) a faith in God,” who makes fun of death row inmates about to be executed (and don't get me started on Scooter Libby, as well as someone capable of this).

I could go on and on and on with this, but you get the idea (and I didn’t provide links for the most part because I didn’t believe it was necessary at this point).

George W. Bush is the most amoral individual holding the office of president of the United States that I have ever seen in my lifetime, and God has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it.

And if our corporate media doesn’t understand that we see through the smokescreen of anything approximating “faith” that they try to create regarding this man, then, to speak in language they profess to understand, they are beyond redemption.