The Eve of Destruction

It looks like we are about to begin bombing Iraq to 'protect the peace' and 'liberate' the country.

It strikes me as strange, that if just under 100 people are senselessly roasted to death in a nightclub, the whole nation knows about it, everyone grieves the loss....while we're planning to drop the biggest incendiary bombs ever constructed (moab) over a country with a shattered economy, weak militarily and already under the thumb of daily UN disarmament efforts. And none in the media bother to tell us that if we want to understand what is about to happen, maybe even tomorrow, will be ten thousand times worse, only small kids and old people will be in the mix as well.

This morning, I heard the news that ABC has pulled it's news crews from Baghdad. Americans in Middle east countries have been told to leave the area. UN inspectors have been told to leave the area. George Bush is determined to have his war, any and all objections, calls for reason be damned.

And all this while ignoring the largest genuine, clear and present threat to international security- a North Korea busily on the path towards building a Nuclear arsenal, which it is as certain to share as Pakistan was and is. So much for priorities. So much for Reason.

Forgive us lord, we know what we do but are powerless to stop it.

History will not be kind to us for what is about to happen. That is, providing we're not entering into a conflagration that will engulf the globe.

But, then again, Bush is a subscriber to the philosophy that it's a good thing to hasten the arrival of Armageddon. Great. That's not the kind of bold we need from the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

Again, may God forgive us.