Congressman Suggests Jesus Surge for Iraq (TRUTHDIG)

[laststeamtrain]

Congressman Suggests Jesus Surge for Iraq

While the Bush administration has busied itself thinking up ways to sell a troop escalation in Iraq, North Carolina Congressman Robin Hayes had a better idea, saying stability in the war ravaged country hinged on “spreading the message of Jesus Christ...”

Hayes went on to offer this pearl of wisdom for a nation divided by sectarian violence: “Everything depends on everyone learning about the birth of the savior.”

It’s bad enough Sunnis and Shiites are killing each other, this man wants to introduce Christianity into the mix? Seriously, he’s in Congress. He makes laws!

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http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20061228_congressman_suggests_jesus_surge_for_iraq/

[rhiannon55]

1. Jesus H. Christ!

These people are nuts! :evilgrin:

[BushOut06]

2. I think that's an EXCELLENT idea!

In fact, I think we should send all these far-right neocon Christians to Iraq to personally spread the Gospel.

[PADemD]

5. Let's start a fund for his travel expenses. I'd personally like to contribute.

[Missy M]

3. I would suggest he be the one to travel around Iraq...

teaching about the "birth of the savior" and see how long he survives.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Rate a Christian radical parents preference for their sons and

daughters.

a. go to college, get married, have children, and live near by.
b. go to Iraq as a soldier in the event of a 'surge'
c. go to Iraq to convert Moslems in a time of civil-tribal war.

Rate 1, 2, or 3.

[dave_p]

6. Jesus un-surge

Iraq of course used to have a thriving Christian minority of over a million (Saddam's foreign minister Tariq Aziz was a Christian Arab), but that was before the US and Britain set about destroying the country. Now hundreds of thousands have left amid growing sectarian violence and economic collapse through sanctions & war, many going to neighboring Syria which also numbers over a million Christians among its citizens. In demographic terms, US action has actually de-christianized what was once a secular multifaith society. Maybe they had the wrong Jesus.

[Vidar]

7. Good point. Welcome to DU.