Weapons Of Mass Destruction - Bush Lied

Who lied to America by saying the following about Saddam Hussain?

"we know he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons..."

A) Colin Powell
B) Al Gore
C) George W. Bush

Why does this topic come up in this blog? Because truth is fundamental to Christianity. Because truth is important. We base how we will live our lives, and what we support with our votes, on how we perceive truth. This brings us to the problem. Truth no longer has any meaning. Truth is no longer absolute, but is being redefined to mean "anything that supports what I want to believe."

The problem with TRUTH is that finding truth sometimes takes effort; it can be ugly; it can be sad in painfull ways; in most cases it's not entertaining (and Americans now require that they be entertained in everything they do); and sometimes truth does not support what WE WANT to believe.

The issue of George Bush using weapons of mass destruction as the main reason we invaded Iraq is a good example. Many people hate George Bush because he disagrees with their politics. Many hate him because he disagrees with their lack of morality. Many hate him because he is a Christian.

You can understand why someone hates another person by looking at what they use to attack that person. Most often they will use the same general type of thing to attack someone, that their conscience tells them they themselves are doing wrong. In this case morality is being used to attack George W. Bush. The accusation that "Bush lied" is an accusation against the morality of George W. Bush. Accusations coming from supporters of the president who openly lied more than any other president, Bill Clinton.

So, who lied... or did anyone lie about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction?

WMD's was one ofthe reasons Bush gave for the need to remove Suddam Hussain. But, it was not the main reason Bush gave. An excellent summary is provided by the speak Bush made when he gave Saddam Hussain 48 hours to quite Iraq. He said:

"All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. There will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors; no more poison factories; no more executions of dissidents; no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberaion is near."

So who is it that is quoted at the beginning of this post?

Al Gore.

Congress had access to all of the same reports on Iraq as President Bush did. What conclusion did the Democrats come to? That we needed to stay out of Iraq because we would be slaughtered. Time after time democrats keep pounding on the theme that Saddam Hussain's weapons of mass destruction would kill tens of thousands of American troops.

The New York Tiimes in January 2003, based on a CIA report of WMDs, said that we must stay out because Saddam would use "his last chance to extract vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him."

So the truth is, the democrats were wrong. Did they lie? No. They were responding to the best information then available--although unlike George Bush they focused on WMDs and ignored the torture, murder and rape being done by Saddam and his sons.

Was the CIA information about WMDs "slanted" by the Bush administration? No. Two commissions who have looked at this have said no. There was no tampering. No modification of intelligence. It was just bad intelligence resulting, in part from Clinton policies that prevented communication between intelligence agencies.

If you'd like to learn the truth about whatis happening in Iraq, I suggest the videos put out by the Iraqi Truth Project. While the production quality of these videos are excellent, the story they tell is not pretty. It is not entertaining. Sometimes the truth even hurts. But the truth is important.

We Have A Neighbor

We have a neighbor who is politically very liberal. She keeps asking us, "Aren't I a Christian? I didn't vote for Bush, so you conservatives are saying I'm not a Christian. ...and by the way BUSH LIED!" She can't avoid adding "Bush lied!" to the end of almost everything she says.

She can not understand why the news reports say Bush was put into office by Christians. But she didn't vote for Bush. So does that mean she is not a Christian? (And by the way, "Bush lied!")

No, there is no Christian requirement to vote for any specific person. Your salvation does not depend on who you vote for. But as Abigail Adams (wife of President John Adams) commented when faced with choosing between two candidates, both of whom she did not like, Christian voters should look to choose the candidate who best supports Christian values. Which candidate is a judgment we make.

So the answer to my neighbor's question is that no one can judge her Christianity based on whom she voted for. Although that does not preclude the media from noticing that most Christians voted for a specific candidate.

And by the way, one last comment from my neighbor... "Bush lied!"

What Is A Man?

A baby in the womb is totally helpless. Totally defenseless.

It is a woman's duty to protect and nurture the baby in her. There is no one else who can do that.

It is a man's duty to protect his wife and by doing so he also protects his unborn child. If he has to, it is his duty to give his life to save them. That's what a man does.

A person who makes a woman pregnant IS NOT A MAN, if he voluntarily leaves that woman and is not a father to his child.

A person who makes a woman pregnant IS NOT A MAN if he is not protecting them from harm and danger.

A person who makes a woman pregnant IS NOT A MAN if he is not ready to fight and defend his wife and unborn child with everything he has.

There are about 1,000,000 abortions in America every year. That's 2,739 children murdered every day, seven days a week. Where are the men?

The Party of Death

Liberals now call themselves "progressives" in an attempt to get away from the negative, anti-Christian images that have come to be associated with the word liberal. But no matter what they call themselves, liberal or progressive, they are still the party of death that has duped large numbers of Americans into supporting their self-centered grab for money and power.

Where do you find support for the murder of innocent babies through abortion? Liberals claim to base their positions on rational thought backed by the best science. But the best science has been telling us for over 20 years that life begins at conception--and yes, babies do feel excruciating pain as they are murdered during an abortion. Liberals claim to base their support for the murder of defenseless babies on compassion forthe mother. Yet medical science shows that abortion is harmful to both the mental and physical health of the former mother.

Where do you find people who are willing to let more people become infected and die from HIV, HPV and other sexually transmitted diseases? Liberals. Condoms offer very little protection against HPV, a disease that kills more women than HIV! This is not a new revelation, science has known this for years, but those who support condoms as the only way to prevent the spread of disease ignored it and watched 20,000 of their sisters die over the past five years.

Liberals would have you think you are no better than dogs. That you can not control your desires any more than a dog in heat can. Why? Because they say you are nothing more than "goo to you". They say you came from bateria, that evolved to animals and became you. That makes you no better than an animal. No better than a dog in heat. You can't control youself so you need to use a condom--you have no other choice.

But you are better than that.

God says that YOU are very special. You were created in the image of God, and that makes you very special, important and worthy of God's love. God loves you so much that he sacrificed his only Son so that you might live. God loves you so much that he will forgive EVERYTHING wrong that you have ever done--even having an abortion or performing an abortion--if you trust him to take care of your eternal salvation.

Trust in God.

2,739 Americans Murdered Today

Just recently we saw on the news that 2000 Americans died in Iraq. That's sad news. But we also know they gave their lives for an important cause--freedom.

Today, and every day in America -- 7 days a week -- an estimated 2,739 Americans were murdered by abortions. These Americans had no body armor. Not night vision goggles. No weapons to defend themselves. No helecopters or F-15s overhead to protect them. No choice about what would happen in their lives. They were totally naked. Totally defenseless. Unable to speak for themselves. And totally trusting in their mother as their only defense. And their mother betrayed them.

That's 2,739 defenseless babies killed every day. Most just for the convenience of the person God gave them for their protection.

The Catholic Church Opposes The Bible

Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture said on Thursday (November 3, 2005) that "the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into 'fundamentalism' if it ignores scientific reason."

The reason he gave for the Catholic Church taking this position was based on:

"Pope John Paul II's 1992 declaration that the church's 17th-century denunciation of Galileo was an error resulting from 'tragic mutual incomprehension.' Galileo was condemned for supporting Nicolaus Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun; church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe."

"The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue between the various disciplines, and in particular between theology and the natural sciences, if we want to prevent similar episodes from repeating themselves in the future" .

He seems to be responding to statements made earlier this year by Christoph Schonborn, the cardinal archbishop of Vienna (July 9th, 2005 New York Times) who said: "Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection - is not. Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science."

Unfortunately the leaders of the Catholic Church do not know their own history. At the time of Galileo the Catholic Church was taking the position of secular science, saying the world was the center of the universe. Galileo's work was based on that of Nicolaus Copernicus. By the way, Copernicus was not a scientist by profession. His full time job was as Catholic canon (ecclesiastical administrator). Both Galileo and Copernicus believed they were taking a Biblical position. They were supporting the Bible, not opposing it.

Now history is repeating itself and the Catholic Church is on the wrong side once again--supporting secularism as being superior over God's word.