Author: R J Adams

“Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves. Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam.” ~ Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the dominant party in al-Maliki’s coalition.

It’s amazing how the human race can twist and warp its own religious teachings to suit its ends. This is not the insane cry of a religious anarchist, or extremist, but the sermon of a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. He called Saddam’s forthcoming execution:

“God’s gift to Iraqis”.

The face of Islam expressed to the world today. Christians may well smirk and feel smug, but their so-called “religion” has been besmirched by just as much blood and torment as Islam, and still is today.

To suggest, as those of a religious bent do constantly, that mankind would have no benchmarks or standards of morality without the ten commandments or other “divine interventions”, is proved wrong incessantly; none more obviously than the revenge ethic of the religious, constantly calling “death to the sinner” both in Iraq and the United States.

A total disregard for their “divine commandment”:

Thou shalt not kill. Period.

I have no set religion. If I did, I would daily give thanks to God for revealing to me that He does not exist.

Filed under: Pretenders

By no stretch of the imagination can polar bears and Iraqis be considered symbiotic, yet in a world controlled by George W Bush it seems nothing is impossible. Certainly, neither can have cause to feel gratitude towards the American president, whose prevarication has undoubtedly helped place the futures of both in serious jeopardy.

The media has made much of two stories today. The first concerns George W Bush’s heart-warming decision to place polar bears on the list of endangered species, due to the obviously swift retreat of the ice floes that are their home and hunting grounds; a retreat caused entirely by the global warming that George W Bush has determinedly refused to recognize from the first day he walked into the White House.

As the president of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, Jonathan Lash said today:

“Truth to tell, climate science has not been controversial anywhere, except Washington DC, for years.”

Or, to put it another way, for the last five years of George W Bush’s tenure climate change has been a known scientific fact, not a theory.

Sadly, for the polar bears, their endangered species status won’t be ratified for another twelve months, which means George W Bush won’t take any action to stem global warming during a second term that ends in 2008. That’s bad news for the polar bears, heading for extinction within forty years.

The other story transfixing the media is the startling revelation out of Crawford, Texas, that “THE PLAN” for Iraq is “making good progress”, though today’s meeting of the president and top aides was described as “non decision-making”.

“Non decision-making”?

How long does President George W Bush need to prevaricate over this issue? The ten members of the Iraq Study Group began sitting in March 2006. They published their report on December 6th. Today is December 28th. Every day hundreds of Iraqis are being killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured. Every day American soldiers are dying. Yet, today’s meeting – three weeks after the report was published – was a “non decision-making” meeting.

How long can Americans go on believing that George W Bush cares a fig about the dead and dying in Iraq? He would, of course, retaliate by saying it was because he cared that he was taking so long to make a decision. He would want it to be the “right” decision.

That explanation might hold water were it not that ten eminent citizens had already spent eight long months making the decision for him. All George W Bush has to do is implement it.

Perhaps he feels that continuous dithering will result in the Iraqis eventually all killing each other and solving the problem for him.

Which is somewhat similar to the polar bears, passing forever into extinction while waiting for him to admit global warming is a major issue.

Filed under: Fake politicians

The president of the United States is impaled on the horns of a dilemma. He needs a foolproof solution to what seems an insoluble problem.

The situation in Iraq has reached stalemate. George W Bush, while pretending to spend the holidays deep in contemplation of the problem, is really in despair. His choices: send in more troops to aggravate the already grave civil disturbances experienced by Iraqis, or remove the troops and aggravate the already grave civil disturbances experienced by Iraqis.

There is, however, one remedy no-one’s thought of. It’s really the only sensible solution to the problem.

Question: when was the only time this century that Iraq had a stable government, virtually no civil unrest, and a relatively healthy economy?

Answer: before the Iraq War.

All George W Bush has to do is release Saddam Hussein from prison and hand him back the Iraqi presidency, while bringing all American troops back home.

Problem solved.

Mind, they’ll have to be quick about implementing it, or it will be too late.

Of course, that would then leave the vexed question of three thousand dead American soldiers. Who would be responsible?

Well, the Iraqis would be only to happy to hang somebody in place of Saddam………..

Any ideas?

Filed under: Just deserts