Old painting from the Crusades is prophetic

[donhakman]

;)

[UTUSN]

1. The Second Shrub Used the Word "Crusade"

*I* knew it was a HUGE blunder. How come all these smart people who get big bucks and perks in the Shrub power structure advising and writing speeches *don't*?

[frankly_fedup2]

3. Well you do know that Dubya is the Republican's

second coming. Reagan use to be; however, his family is not behind Bush's ideas of how the World should be and do not want Bush and his regime using Reagan to get Bush reelected. The man hasn't even been dead two weeks and they were showing his face in an add. The family was pretty pissed.

[frankly_fedup2]

2. That's a horrible painting . . . or should I say the . . .

theme of the painting is horrible even though I know you mean it as a joke. (yep, looks like the Bush administration sitting on top planning everything).

Is this originally from an actual painting before the faces were changed a bit.

[donhakman]

5. the faces were changed to indict the guilty

At least you can see Cheney is keeping the nuclear code briefcase away from the idiot prince.

[peacetalksforall]

4. It may have been planned - he was supposed to plant the word and win

the fundamentalists...then back off when sensible citizens protested.

Then again, given their arrogance and their passion for war, maybe they thought they could have another horse and armour crusade - El Cid - Heston style with a sword in hand.

[UTUSN]

6. My Local Radio Runs "The Christian Crusader"

Sundays, which I think is Lutheran. Aren't Lutherans next-to Cath? Not technically fundies?

[peacetalksforall]

7. There is nothing wrong with the word 'crusade' or crusaders. To use it

in the context he did with its inferences was pathetic.

[AndyTiedye]

8. The Crusade is Real

This has been the Bush*/PNAC plan all along.

Why do you think they have been grabbing up ordinary Iraqis and
torturing them at "Camp Redemption"?

They are running an Inquisition over there.

[mia]

9. Lutherans close to Catholics

The services are similar, but the music is more traditional. As a former Catholic, I felt comfortable in a Lutheran church. Lutherans tend to keep their distance from Catholics at first but welcome them into the fold. I've never met a fundamentalist Lutheran. The Pastor of the Lutheran Church that I went to was proud to have marched with Martin Luther King. He was extremely well-educated too. Listen to the Prarie Home Companion on NPR to get a flavor of Lutherans.

These days I feel like there's no place to go. My church now is the internet, here, and wherever people are gathered together for the good of mankind. I think I'm off-topic by now.

[UTUSN]

10. In Good Fellowship Is Never Off-topic. Cheers! n/t