So far, I have not ranted as much as I would have liked about such things as the war in Iraq, the use of depleted uranium weapons, the torture policy of the United States, the destruction of Fallujah, the United States use of internationally banned chemical weapons, such as a napalm-like bomb that has been acknowledged to have been used by the US military, and of which Fallujah medical authorities testify (not to mention the gruesome pictures). I have not argued against the war crimes entailed in all of these (such as the attack on the hospital to begin the second devastation on Fallujah), nor how students have told me friends are trained at Camp Pendleton to execute any person in a room in urban battle as a combatant, and then to hear how the marine in the NBC video of the execution of a wounded Iraqi was acquitted because he was following approved procedure -- but no one higher up is held accountable.

Today, however, I found on uruknet.info a piece that is very important. It lists a "path of war" timetable. It shows very clearly that any talk of WMD was merely a ruse for an aggressive, colonial conquest of Iraq by the Bush administration. It shows that there is no way that the invasion of Iraq could be called "just", and that it is buried in groups from the '90s who later became key players in the Bush administration. The interesting thing is that the analysis has to come from a "marginal" group, when all the data they use is very public and mainstream. All they've done is connect the dots. It is very disturbing.

To see the whole thing, go to http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12568.

Once one sees this, one can understand why it was so important that the Board of General Superintendent's withdrew the invitation to President Bush not to address the General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene. It also shows that indeed, the Board of GS's is correct to say that Bush has espoused a "consistent moral agenda". Yet consistent does not make Christian.