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Bush, Evil, and a Third Awakening
by Ron Fullwood
http://www.opednews.com
Bush, Evil, and a Third Awakening
by Ron Fullwood
http://www.opednews.com
The motives of acts
Are rarely the same
As their name, as their name -- Larkin
Is Bush evil? Is bin-Laden?
Bush speaks often about 'evil', as in: the evil ones, evil people, he's
evil, no isolation from evil, evil has returned, evil is real, terrorism is
evil, America faces an evil, we're fighting evil, an evil man that we're
dealing with, we will not stop until we defeat evil.
There may be things that we correctly label evil, but are all attacks on
Americans and our agents and allies 'evil'? Bush has always viewed any
action against Americans - even against his bloody occupation of Iraq and
Afghanistan - as evil while, at the same time, declaring the success of his
own militarism ordained by God herself.
There is that similar thread that runs through the ideology of Bush and
bin-Laden alike; that of religious-based rhetoric that accompanies their
violent acts; waged either out of defense or to serve their own narrow
interests. Both seek to shackle their followers to their deadly political
pieties, in which religion is used to rationalize and justify the violence
they employ to achieve their political objectives. Bush has his 'war on
terror' which he fancies himself doing God's work as he wields the awesome
force of our nations military. Bin-Laden has his war on infidels which he
wages in the name of Allah with the lives of his followers.
"Faith shows us the reality of good, and the reality of evil," President
Bush said at a prayer breakfast shortly after the 9-11 attacks. "Some acts
and choices in this world have eternal consequences. It is always, and
everywhere, wrong to target and kill the innocent. It is always, and
everywhere, wrong to be cruel and hateful, to enslave and oppress."
Peter Baker at the WaPost reported on an interview Bush gave Tuesday, where
he told a group of 'conservative journalists' that he "senses a "Third
Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided
with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he
depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."
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Ron Fullwood, is an activist from Columbia, Md. and the author of the book
'Power of Mischief' : Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy
and the Country is Paying the Price
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