[Mb-civic] onward christian soldiers

[Ian]

madbaker:

although I have only a minor problem with your labeling Bush and his administration "christian cowboys" (since not all of them are christian), I do have a problem with your labeling 15,000 men and women at arms "christian cowboys" since you cannot possibly know how many of them are christian, how many are jews, how many are, yes, muslims, and how many are non-believers.  In fact, statistically, it is likely that less than one-half of them are actually "christian."  So please - while I respect your opinions and your views (and your good writing), drop the over-generalizations that only serve to inflame.

peace.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: peter baker 
  To: Michael Butler 
  Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:42 AM
  Subject: [Mb-civic] onward christian soldiers


  marching into war
  with the cross of jesus
  going on before

  well bear
  .............this is what the american people voted for...the christian cowboys let loose firing millions of rounds of ammunition...15,000 cowboys against 3,000 haji's...yeah ! this is cool !..descibed by all as a u.s/iraqi operation and the iraqi participants first reported as 200 suddenly grew a nought and became 2,000 [well it looks better, right?]..completely destroying falluja [talk about rebuilding iraq !]..and this time there'll be no casualty figures..well, the cowboys took the hospital first [not only will there be not be a body count but also no medical treatment for casualties]  well, they're only haji's...the media proudly displaying the carnage and destruction for the world to see with their own correspondents embedded with the cowboys and describing all the superior fire power as if it is somehow heroic....even the newly pro-blair b.b.c. has a reporter on board....meanwhile the rest of the world is looking on in horror and revulsion...hatred for the cowboys increasing with every foot of film....not only among the muslim world but among decent intelligent people everywhere....meanwhile the resistance [reported as the insurgency] continues unabated elsewhere...taking falluja militarily is not going to help the u.s. cause at all: it is going to do it enormous harm....  mad baker


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