Your sources were not wrong, and no one made that claim. Those venues however are very much a part of a controlled debate, and Fox news is infamous for it. Who do you think these people work for? You? Me?
You didn't like any of the sources RLENT cited, because they're all part of the propaganda machine, and you don't trust them. You then went on to state that you would not need RLENT to to inform you of what's really happening around the world, implying that you have one or more trusted sources for news and facts around the world. That's why I wondered what constitutes an acceptable source, provided the information is nevertheless correct, hoping you would cite these important sources.
The hate in which you see from those in this country stems from a huge game being played "out there". Some people actually believe the Muslims are responsible for such things as The Patriot Act, NDAA, and the near complete erosion of rights in this country. But what the heck would give them that idea? Those same outlets you quote were all part of selling us the story about a bomber behind every tree.
It's pretty obvious what the heck would give them that idea. The first thing you need to do when wanting to attack someone is justify it. You do that first by creating the enemy and then by convincing as many as possible that they are the enemy. That's where the press comes in. Then, privately and publicly, you give the reasons for justification. In this case it is a religious crusade, classic Christians versus Muslims. Bush publicly used the term on the day of the 9/11 attacks, and then used it again 5 months later in another speech.
"Events aren't moved by blind change and chance" Bush said, but by
"the hand of a just and faithful God." From the outset he has been convinced that his presidency is part of a divine plan, even telling a friend while he was governor of Texas,
"I believe God wants me to run for president. Also while governor, he stated more than once among 20 interviews with Houston Chronicle columnist Mickey Herskowitz, a Jew and close friend of the Bush family, that he ever became president of our nation he would invade Iraq and overthrow its President Saddam Hussein, because that's what God wanted him to do, to fulfill prophesy.
This conviction that he is doing God's will surfaced more openly. In his State of the Union addresses and other public forums, he has presented himself as the leader of a global war against evil. Not terrorism, but evil. On the war in Iraq, he said,
"we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them." God is at work in world affairs, he says, calling for the United States to lead a liberating crusade in the Middle East, and
"this call of history has come to the right country."
During the building of the coalition of the willing, we now know from actual memos and from confirmation of the French president, that when President Jacques Chirac declined to be a part of the coalition, Bush informed Chirac that
“Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.” Tony Blair was in agreement with Bush on this.
During the war with Iraq (and Afghanistan) every presidential briefing on the war included a cover page with a biblical verse on victory. Military operations were regularly named using biblical references (Operation Sword of the Spirit, Operation Helmet of Salvation, Operation Full Armor, etc.). Rifle scopes manufactured under military contract had "John 8:12" and "II Corinthians 4:6" etched next tot he serial numbers. "Jesus killed Mohammed" was scrawled on the sides of US Army tanks.
So the notion that Muslims are responsible for all sorts of evil things, like the Patriot Act, NDAA, and the near complete erosion of rights in this country, is a notion clearly orchestrated so that a war can be conceived and fought in God's name, to fulfill prophesy.
But now? Were going to publish articles pointing out the retaliatory consequences of the very agenda we put forth? It's a very complex game being played and the reaction to a supposed enemy has been the same from the dawn of man. So while I do not condone or encourage any violence to this regard......it's going to come up, as it always does. What we have here is totally controlled, damage control. We're not only selling you the original lie, we're going to harness the blow back in which we knew all along would come.
Yeah, seems a little hypocritical, doesn't it?
Oh, wait....
