Blasted a reply to a Pro-War email forward (from a fundie brother-in-law)

[Roland99]

The one yesterday was about something like Don't Mock God and gave some quotes from John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Tancredo Neves, "The Man That Built Titanic", etc. and some BS things afterward that made it appear the people named were killed by a vengeful God for mocking him or Jesus. :eyes:

I replied back with some cursory stuff but nothing too bad.

But, the email today from him was:

This will make U proud

http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/THISWILLMAKEYOUPROUD.HTML


It's about a Marine, Brian Chontosh, that received a medal for his bravery on the battlefield. I'm sure he deserved it for what he did (Snopes cleared the email as true) but I blasted back with this:


Sorry, I can't help join in the "fun" of glorifying the deaths of people in a country we NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN IN THE FIRST PLACE!

These people are merely protecting their country and their positions in power from an OCCUPYING FORCE.


Never seen the movie Red Dawn? Well, Bush just created an Iraqi version of it and, in the process, has signed the death warrant for 2,500 brave American men and women in uniform and spent $300 billion with a future cost nearing $2 Trillion for future healthcare needs of the greater than 30,000 wounded American soldiers. (Remember when Lawrence Lindsay, Bush's selection for Economic Advisor, said the war would cost up to $100 billion and he was fired for saying so when this administration was claiming it wouldn't be more than $50 billion?)

And, just today, the influential journal, Foreign Affairs, declared the war on terror a failure in its first-ever Terrorism Index with 86% of leading American foreign-policy analysts stating the world has grown MORE, not less, dangerous, due to the invasion of Iraq and policies re: prisoner treatment (which, btw, the prisoner abuse and torture goes right to the top with Rumsfeld, Chertoff, Gonzales, and Miers all having been involved in crafting legal justifications to bypass the Geneva Conventions). Funny, I never figured torture was a Family Value. Who Would Jesus Waterboard? Who Would Jesus Beat The Crap Out Of?

The war on terror is a ruse which allowed the neoconservatives, mostly those in the PNAC (Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Hadley, Feith, Cheney, Fukuyama, Kristol, etc.) to engage in their failed ideology. These people have been trying to use fear and boogeymen for decades to expand US power and influence across the globe (remember Negroponte and his Death Squads in Central American in the 1980s?) Trouble is, the neocons are 0-for-3 in their attempts and now they are fracturing. Fukuyama and others have written they were wrong and this administration has gone about matters in a much worse way than even they would have hoped. And we're talking about an administration that has taken cronyism and corporate welfare to all-time heights.

This same administration turned its back on Katrina and Rita victims in the Gulf states and revoked prevailing wage laws in the wake of the disaster.

This same administration has turned its back on returning veterans, forcing them to pay more out of their own pockets for their injuries incurred in battle.

This same administration has gutted environmental regulations allowing corporations to earn more and more profit at the expense of this planet. Just two days ago, Karl Rove helped loosen EPA rules re: clean groundwater around drilling sites after having received a letter from a well-connect Texas oilman and Republican activist, Ernest Angelo. Prior to that, other EPA regulations were loosened to allow oil companies to pollute more in the refining process. Yeah, like ExxonMobil needs more than it's nearly $40 billion in PROFT last year alone.

This same administration has given pharmaceutical companies a gift in the form of the Medicare Prescription Drug program that will cost over $1 trillion when they said it would be about $400 billion (and forced Richard Foster, chief actuary, to keep quiet about the real cost lest he be fired).

This same administration has repeatedly fed government-create videos as "news" to various news stations around the country touting the benefits of administration policy.


Jesus said “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.”

Well, apparently this administration thinks the "least" are anyone making at least $250,000/yr.


So, go ahead and celebrate that "Pro-Life" stance of killing, at least, 40,000 Iraqis, 2,500 Americans, and over 100 British so that the US can enhance its military power in the Middle East and make the military-industrial complex (which Republican President Dwight Eisenhower warned us of) more powerful and those running those companies (and the oil companies) richer and richer while real wages continue to drop (May 2006 numbers just came out, Real Wages dropped 0.7% in one month alone) and the savings rate was negative for the 4th quarter in a row. Last time we saw that happen? 1929. Remember what happened after that? Well, your grandparents surely do: The Great Depression.

So, keep on celebrating continued violence. I'm sure Jesus would be very proud.