“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a
miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made
and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

John Stuart Mill, a British Philosopher

Yes, even in the midst of death and destruction, we should have had more sense than to think we could go after terrorists and win a victory.

How could we have been so stupid? We should have dropped to our knees, right there on the streets of New York, in towns all over America, and asked forgiveness for all the horrible things we’ve done to people everywhere in the world. Isn’t that what we’ve been made to feel?

We should have felt the guilt of being a super power and we should not have even considered bringing justice to a group of people that wanted to kill us. And oh yes, we should have impeached George Bush right on the spot. It was his fault that we didn’t wave the white flags of surrender. If we had only used our minds, not listened to his lies, we would have “given up” and everything would be fine. Oh, the time, effort and pain we would have saved ourselves.

Yep! That’s right. Hands in the air . . . white handkerchiefs waving amidst all the debris. It would have been easier to “give it up” to strangers who invaded our country, took over our planes and used them against us than to witness our own fellow Americans essentially inflicting destruction on one another – our infighting has almost destroyed what our nation has built for the past 229 years.

If, in fact, the situation were reversed, we would have all been marched off to detention camps where they would no doubt have allowed the “White Christians” to have prayers broadcast five times a day; they would have passed out Bibles with gloves on, and handed them to us with both hands in a very respectful manner . . . just as the Koran is being issued everyday at Guantanamo Bay.

Why, this would have been glorious. Instead of being denounced by our own fellow Americans as fanatical and extreme - not wanting us to pray or bring our Bibles to school; not to mention God; to keep Him out of any public venue - we would have had it made in those detainee camps. We would have indeed had that direct line to heaven that Hillary accuses us of having.
We wouldn’t have had to listen to Howard Dean tell us how much he hates us, and as he asserts that many of us have never made an honest living in our lives, we could just go ahead and lounge around reading our Bibles all day and eating our honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf.
From what we’ve been told by Congressman Duncan Hunter, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, our detainees seem to get better “three squares” than most Americans do.
With Hillary believing we (Republicans, who as Dean declares are mostly “White Christians”) have no shame about what we’re doing and that we’ve never been acquainted with the truth . . . why shucks, treatment from al-Qaeda would be a welcome respite from her non-stop bashing of half the people in America.
As Hillary states: “Some of us (Republicans) honestly believe we are motivated by the truth; believe we are motivated by a higher calling, and believe we are motivated by a direct line to the heavens.”
Oh, just think, Hill and Deano would no longer be able to speak against our religious freedom because religious rights will certainly be a must for detainees – they’re demanding it for themselves, so it makes sense they would demand it for us, too.
I’d love Osama to tell Howie Dean to “hush up” since they insist on “quiet” during their prayer time - they would want that for us. If we make our guards (with their squeaky boots) at Guantanamo walk on painted footprint paths during prayer time so as not to disturb the detainees, there’s no doubt in my mind they’d paint a path to a dark hole far away so Howie would surely be quiet during our prayer time.
And anyway, Mr. Dean wouldn’t want to associate with us . . . he doesn’t look like the rest of us . . . we all look the same, behave the same – pretty much a “white Christian party.”
My dear Americans, all facetiousness aside, we’re dying a much slower death for sure, but it’s a death nonetheless. We’ve lost our sense of who we are and we can’t find our way.
We’ve proceeded to thumb our nose at God and then cry out for help.

Every time I hear someone talk about shutting down Guantanamo Bay; it’s time to bring our troops home; we need to let the Iraqis fight this war . . . I can only throw up my hands and say: “Maybe we should have surrendered at Ground Zero and we wouldn’t have witnessed the self-destruction of the America we once knew.

The American people elected George Bush twice to lead them, yet we still won’t let him take charge. Do you think Mr. Bush still listens to God? He’s accused of it daily, but if we truly believe he does, how can we argue with the decisions he makes? Are we listening to God – is He telling us something completely different? Or have we truly prayed about it? Have we prayed for our President?

If we don’t lift George Bush up in prayer – thus causing him to fail – America loses!

Does anyone truly not believe the hand of God has been on George Bush since he took office? Who amongst you believes God abandoned George Bush to his own thinking? And do we believe George Bush looked into the face of the Almighty and said, “Back off Big Guy, I’ve got it under control.”

Who in the name of God honestly believes that?

Have you noticed George Bush doesn’t duck and cover when the stones are hurled at him? Most of us would buckle. His tenacious spirit has kept us safe (no buildings falling here).

Now that the enemy - no, not Osama bin Laden – but the enemy on the left has started throwing rocks at Christians, doesn’t it tell you loud and clear who they were really trying to denounce?

Does anyone see the picture now? We’ve not been crippled by terrorists – we’ve been crippled by our own fellow Americans.

They can’t beat George down, but when they started in on us . . . we quivered. We don’t like being called “White Christians.” We don’t like being told we’ve never worked a hard day in our lives.

So, you might want to get ready for the next attack. Either “buck up” or get out the white handkerchiefs - if we’re going to be accused of being “White Christians,” we need to live up to our name.

Debbie Daniel can be contacted at: dddtx@yahoo.com