Torture And The Bush Administration

One of the most egregious acts of the Bush Administration is the disregard of the Geneva Conventions. The one value, in war, that we held onto, as a civilized country, was the ethical treatment of our prisoners. Why the American public, and Christians in particular, tolerate this policy is one of the most bewildering aspects of the entire Iraq fiasco. Our only explanation is the ever-increasing exposure and acceptance of violence by America’s youth! When the history of this Administration is written, the use of torture on our prisoners, may well be the most damning evidence of its moral degradation!

Jesus Endorses Torture

In an amazing turnaround, returning after 2006 years, Jesus has reversed his doctrine on human rights. In a statement released by the White House office of Karl Rove, Jesus is quoted as saying, “It is now permissible to administer drugs or induce severe mental stress, just as long as it falls just short of producing irreversible damage; or pain a little milder than that of organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." Jesus’s statement, which specifically endorses the Bush Administration’s policy on torture, is felt by many within the Beltway to be a significant development in shoring up faltering Christian support for the Bush Policy on torturing human beings. Jesus, a victim of torture, was also quoted as saying, “that had this type of policy been around in my day, I would not have died so prematurely and probably been able to preach for another fifty years.” He was also quoted as saying, “that any torture, to a possible terrorist, outside of US territory, under the direction of paid mercenaries and contract security companies, was not in violation of the Geneva Conventions, as I understood them.” In the interest of National Security, Rove’s office, announced that Jesus would not be making any public appearances on this return visit!

Outrage Against The War In Iraq

Let The Outrage Begin!

As of 11/22, 2879 American Servicemen have died in Iraq and 20,887 are wounded! This alone is repulsive, but slowly the bitterly sad truth is emerging. The truth that these painful losses are the result of a Bush/Cheney plan (Spring 2001) to invade Iraq (Pre 9/11) and privatize its oil fields, thereby eliminating foreign oil companies that were already positioned to develop Iraqi oil. Had Bush/Cheney allowed the UN sanctions to work, the US oil industry would have been totally out of business in Iraq! The National Security Council’s melding of war plans for Iraq, with the Cheney Energy Task Force objective of capturing existing and potential oil fields, should have every American demanding the Abolition of this corrupt and deceptive administration and prosecuting them for war crimes for the deaths of these American soldiers! Bush finally acknowledged a link between the War and Oil, when in a stump speech (Colorado, 11/4) he uttered, “If we leave Iraq, the terrorists get the oil.” The question all American’s should be considering is, “How many more of our sons and daughters are going to die before ‘the terrorists get the oil’, be these ‘terrorists’, American, Sunni or Shiite?”