American Soldiers - Duty, Honor, Country

t is entirely possible that Graham's deep-rooted Islamophobia has rubbed off on his disciple Bush. Graham's Christian fervour has certainly been instrumental in developing Bush's firm belief that 'Jesus is the only way to God', although Mansfield does admit that Bush 'has been hesitant to say' this, adding that once when he did so to a Jewish reporter it 'ignited a powder keg of controversy'. Mansfield also dwells at length on Bush's close bonding with other notorious American Christian fundamentalists, most notably Jerry Fawell and Pat Robertson, who insist that Christianity alone is the way to salvation and that all other religions are limited, false or even Satanic.
Bush's agenda of imposing global American hegemony cannot be understood without taking into account his commitment to the doctrine of Christian supremacy, Mansfield makes clear.'From the tragedy of September 11 to the conflict in Iraq', he informs us,'President Bush has learned to use his faith to help him live in public and private life' and to 'shape the affairs of his administration'. Bush, Mansfield says, sees himself as having been appointed by [the Christian fundamentalist] God to serve His divine purposes in the world. Bush is convinced, he remarks, that he is the President of America because he has been specially chosen by God for the post.'I am here because of the power of prayer', Mansfield quotes Bush as proclaiming.
His faith makes Bush, or so Mansfield claims, a 'better man'. This 'better man', Mansfield says with passionate approval, has been inspired by his faith in Christ to invade Iraq, ostensibly 'to root out a terrorist threat and remove Saddam' and also to 'make it a Midland of the Middle East, not so much as an exact cultural and industrial parallel but as the model of how human beings ought to live together'. Bush's hopes for a post-war Iraq, Mansfield piously proclaims,'are safety, family, benevolent political leaders, good schools, sports, friends and love'.'All men should live this way, he believes. It is what he wants America to be and for America to model in the world'. This nauseating defence of American terrorism, the killings of thousands of people in Iraq and elsewhere by American troops, is thus blessed as a grand civilising mission to be thrust down the throats of unwilling non-white and non-Christian people, no matter what the cost in human terms.
True to his passionate commitment to the doctrine of Christian supremacy, Bush sees the world in stark Manichaean terms. In the Christian fundamentalist world-view, God and Satan, are engaged in a cosmic struggle that will culminate in the grand war of Armageddon that will engulf the world, heralding the Second Coming of Jesus. Seated on a throne in Jerusalem, Jesus will rule the world. All knees will bow before him and all unbelievers will be dispatched to eternal damnation in Hell. Christian fundamentalists believe that the end of the world is near, and for this suitable preparations, including unleashing bloody wars against Christianity's supposed enemies, must be made.

True to his passionate commitment to the doctrine of Christian supremacy, Bush sees the world in stark Manichaean terms. In the Christian fundamentalist world-view, God and Satan, are engaged in a cosmic struggle that will culminate in the grand war of Armageddon that will engulf the world, heralding the Second Coming of Jesus. Seated on a throne in Jerusalem, Jesus will rule the world. All knees will bow before him and all unbelievers will be dispatched to eternal damnation in Hell. Christian fundamentalists believe that the end of the world is near, and for this suitable preparations, including unleashing bloody wars against Christianity's supposed enemies, must be made.

Christian fundamentalists see America as being actively engaged in this struggle, which might entail, among other things, waging war for the glory of Christ. As a Christian fundamentalist, Bush, Mansfield suggests, sees complex questions in the most simplistic terms, as simply a battle between 'good' and 'evil'. Blind to the reality of brutal Western imperialism, economic, cultural, political and military, that is at the root of widespread distress and anti-Western sentiments among many Muslims, as well as other non-Western peoples, Bush, Mansfield says, is apparently convinced that Islamist militants and many other Muslims are opposed to America simply because, as he believes, America is 'freedom's home and defender'.'It is the price we pay for being good', Bush piously proclaims, It is as if anti-Western feelings, including Islamist militancy, stem from a congenital Muslim/non-white/non-Christian madness or barbarity that can only be cured through military bombardment or else through the 'civilising' mission of Christianity. It is as if Muslims are inherently opposed to the 'freedom' and 'democracy' that Bush believes the American Empire represents.

Fired by a seemingly irrepressible zeal for the cause of Christian fundamentalism, Mansfield writes that Bush has actively sought to marshal Christian theological legitimacy for his imperialist wars, seeking to invoke the 'Just War Theory' developed by the Church to bless the anti-Muslim Crusades, expand the boundaries of Christendom and to subjugate the 'benighted heathen'. This, indeed, is how Bush and his cohorts see the wars that they are currently waging in the Muslim world and elsewhere, a restatement of the arguments used to sanction the numerous bloody wars that America and its European allies sponsored during the Cold War against the 'atheistic' communists.

Bush's fiery commitment to the Christian fundamentalist agenda also explains his fervent support to Israel. Although the Christian Church for centuries provided religious sanction to anti-Jewish hatred, many Christian fundamentalists are today vociferous supporters of Israel, Zionist expansionism and the brutal suppression of the Palestinians.

Accordingly, the close nexus between America and Israel appears to have received a tremendous boost under Bush, who makes no effort to conceal his belief that his version of Christianity demands that he unabashedly support the Zionist state. Bush's commitment to Israel, Mansfield tells us, is widely recognised in Zionist circles.

Like other forms of religious fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism is a dreaded doctrine of supremacy, a cult of hatred and a recipe for disaster. And with an avowed born-again Christian at the helm of affairs in America who claims to be appointed to that position by God and to be dictated by what he claims to be divine communication, one shudders to think of what more brutalities are in store for the world if Christian fundamentalism is allowed to remain unchallenged.

The author works with the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. He moderates an online discussion group called South Asian Leftists Dialoguing With Religion,

uIidotRacesMAkeWorldPeace wrote:

<quoted text>But US military is based on Christian Fundamentalism that American Military .
Here you dummy, U IMMORAL filthy War mongering animals!! BHWHHAHAHAA
Chaplins, Christian Fundies Declare War on U.S. Constitution ...
www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/06/23/chaplins-c... ...
Chaplins, Christian Fundies ... group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is posting wins codifying the no religious test foundation of the United States of America.
Patriotic Military / Veterans Christian Soldiers Cross
christiansoldierscross.com/index.html
This Patriotic American Christian Soldiers Website was created to Honor our Military Members / Veterans and to show that We are Proud to be Americans crusading in …

So, you call me a Christian Fundie?
Sorry loser, Christian? Probably, but I haven't been to church in over 30 yrs and I love good Single Malt Scotch.
Here, Now i'm really gonna piss you of.
I am part of the Military/Industrial Complex.....My company does nothing but Sub-Contract for a MAJOR Defense Contractor.
Junior, do us all a favor and get a job so I don't have to pay for your narcotics.
Pathetic Junior.
G'Nite.

whats right wrote:

<quoted text>FIRST!!.. before she leaves>>> i need to know the make and model of her blood oil consumin, needing to be upgraded . car
i might want one

Dude, I didn't know you could upgrade a Bus Pass.
I do guess he/she/it could upgrade a Walmart bicycle.
(Mommy won't let "it" drive her 1985 Buick Skylark yet.

DuNG wrote:

NUMBER-ONE STATE TERRORIST OF ALL TIME DROPPED THE BOMB ON HIROSHIMA WHERE THERE WERE NO MILITARY TARGETS WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER!!!

The war was over? Is that what your political masters and your mother told you, creep?

DuNG wrote:

YAZ OVER, AND THE FAGGGOTWARMONGERS NEEDED A TEST SUBJECT FOR THE BOMB, THE USUAL INNOCENT PEOPLE.

You couldn't fill a thimble with your knowledge of history slob. How's your mother's infected uterus?

DENG wrote:

YAZ OVER, AND THE FAGGGOTWARMONGERS NEEDED A TEST SUBJECT FOR THE BOMB, THE USUAL INNOCENT PEOPLE.

You're a fool. No wonder the rest of the world thinks the Chinese are gullible.

DuNG wrote:

WHO KILLED JOHN KENNEDY THE SECOND??? WHO PUT THE BOMB IN HIS AIRPLANE???
HINT: A NOTORIOUS PEDOPHILE DID IT.

Yeah right, fool. Michael Jackson did it. Moron.

DENG wrote:

REAL CHRISTIANS ARE ANTI-WAR.
BUT THE FAGGOTWARMONGERS, WAR MAFIA IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE HIJACKED RELIGION AND TWISTED CHRISTIANITY INTO A PRO-WAR RELIGION; IT'S CALLED EFFECTIVE PROPAGANDA

Many denomination in christains, the bad are: far right Christian Coalition, Dominion, Evangelical, Christain Fundies even war with other good christain sects.

"President Rios Montt [is] a man of great personal integrity and commitment who wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemalans, and [is] getting a "bum rap" on human rights."
President Ronald Reagan (a right wing Christian )praising Guatemala's military dictator in 1982; during the 17 months of Rios Montt's "Christian" campaign (1982-83), 400 villages were destroyed, 10,000-20,000 Indians were killed, and over 100,000 were forced to flee to Mexico
-------
Fundie Christian Cult in U.S. Military Is Real and Present Danger ...
www.veteransnewsnow.com/2011/12/19/fundie-chr ......

Fundie Christian Cult in U.S. Military Is Real and Present Danger ... He was an Honor Graduate of the USAF Academy, and spent a decade as a USAF officer, during part of which time he served as a counsel in the Reagan …

Dave C wrote:

<quoted text>
How many Poles did Stalin kill in 1939 when he helped start WW2? How many Finns? Romanians? How many died due to deportations to Siberia? How many died because of communist mismanagement of the food supply. Now throw in Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Ho and Glorious Leader, Beloved Leader and you have the fact the communist killed more people in the last century than any other group.

The fact that you compare all of those people, and all of those countries, in all of that history to the United Snakes alone, tells a whole lot more than if I'd have have itemized the crimes and treachery perpetrated by your filthy country.

The United Snakes .... the biggest threat to world peace that man has ever known.

Thank You for Your Service?
by Laurence M. Vance

I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing, and I am no stranger to accounts of military fetishes in action.

Aside from me not thanking that soldier for his service – verbally or otherwise – I immediately thought of four things.

One, what service did this soldier actually render to the United States? If merely drawing a paycheck from the government is rendering service, then we ought to thank every government bureaucrat for his service, including TSA goons. Did this soldier actually do anything to defend the United States, secure its borders, guard its shores, patrol its coasts, or enforce a no-fly zone over U.S. skies? How can someone blindly say "thank you for your service" when he doesn’t know what service was rendered?

Two, is there anything that U.S. soldiers could do to bring the military into disfavor? I can’t think of anything. Atrocities are dismissed as collateral damage in a moment of passion in the heat of battle by just a few bad apples. Unjust wars, we are told, are solely the fault of politicians not the soldiers that do the actual fighting. Paul Tibbets and his crew are seen as heroes for dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Before he died, Tibbets even said that he had no second thoughts and would do it again. I suspect that if the United States dropped an atomic bomb tomorrow on Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing everyone and everything, and declaring the war on terror over and won, a majority of Americans would applaud the Air Force crew that dropped the bomb and give them a ticker-tape parade.

Three, why is it that Americans only thank American military personnel for their service? Shouldn’t foreign military personnel be thanked for service to their country? What American military worshippers really believe is that foreign military personnel should only be thanked for service to their government when their government acts in the interests of the United States. Foreign soldiers are looked upon as heroic if they refuse to obey a military order to shoot or kill at the behest of their government as long as such an order is seen as not in the interests of the United States. U.S. soldiers, however, are always expected to obey orders, even if it means going to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, or Libya under false pretenses.
And four, what is a Vietnamese man – who most certainly has relatives, or friends or neighbors of relatives, that were killed or injured by U.S. bombs and bullets during the Vietnam War – doing joining the U.S. military where he can be sent to shoot and bomb foreigners like the U.S. military did to his people?

And aside from these four things, I’m afraid I must also say: Sorry, soldiers, I don’t thank you for your service.

I don’t thank you for your service in fighting foreign wars.
I don’t thank you for your service in fighting without a congressional declaration of war.
I don’t thank you for your service in bombing and destroying Iraq and Afghanistan.
I don’t thank you for your service in killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans.
I don’t thank you for your service in expanding the war on terror to Pakistan and Yemen.
I don’t thank you for your service in occupying over 150 countries around the world.
I don’t thank you for your service in garrisoning the planet with over 1,000 military bases.
I don’t thank you for your service in defending our freedoms when you do nothing of the kind.
I don’t thank you for your service as part of the president’s personal attack force to bomb, invade, occupy, and otherwise bring death and destruction to any country he deems necessary.

Thank you for your service? I don’t think so.
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance250.htm

Thank you to all the men and women who have or are serving with honor in the armed services of the free world.
May your days be safe and peaceful.
Warriors, come home soon to those who love, honor, respect and miss you.
^

ALL GAVE SOME...SOME GAVE ALL!!!

uIidotRacesMAkeWorldPeace wrote:

<quoted text>But US military is based on Christian Fundamentalism that American Military .
Here you dummy, U IMMORAL filthy War mongering animals!! BHWHHAHAHAA
Chaplins, Christian Fundies Declare War on U.S. Constitution ...
www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/06/23/chaplins-c... ...
Chaplins, Christian Fundies ... group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is posting wins codifying the no religious test foundation of the United States of America.
Patriotic Military / Veterans Christian Soldiers Cross
christiansoldierscross.com/index.html
This Patriotic American Christian Soldiers Website was created to Honor our Military Members / Veterans and to show that We are Proud to be Americans crusading in …

Still haven't upgraded, have you

doc hypocrite?

And what about cowboys point about all of the military that is not christian? The muslims fighting in th emilitary are fighting for christian values?

And why is it that you live here and have not instead become a Jihadi against the infidels. They seem to have more in common with your points of view.