It's WW3. Has RaptureRight finally achieved Armageddon?

[Mugsy]

"Look at all the connectivity. You have to say this is in fact World War Three." - http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/17/colbert-its-a-world-war-iii-or-iv/>Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press last Sunday.

"Is it time to get excited? I can't help the way I feel." - poster ohappyday on the Rapture Ready website blog.

Mark 13:24–27:

"But in those days, following that distress,
'the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

"At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
"And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

The sinister nexus between "the military industrial complex" that wants war for profit, apocalyptic religious fanatics that would gleefully facilitate the end of the world if it hastened The Second Coming of Christ, and dangerous power mad corporatist in charge of the most powerful nation on the planet with the power to actually deliver on those ambitions.

Naturally, if you are like me, if anything like a "Rapture" were to actually happen, it would seem painfully obvious that anyone that encouraged it in thought, word or deed, would most certainly be guilty of "evil" and not "raptured".

Likewise, if you are connected to the defense industry, nations bankrupted by endless fighting can't afford to buy your products for long. It's another case of obscene profits for short-term gain, the result of which is always your own destruction (an endless Cold War is far more profitable in the long run).

Then there is the Power Mad, who seek security and wealth through absolute power. If Fascism is not eventually instituted, this agenda has a 100% failure rate. The farther back in time you go, the longer such brutal regimes have lasted. Rome ruled he known world for 1,000 years. The Gaults for about 500. The British Empire, several hundred. The US is barely 200 years old and is now staring down the barrel of its own destruction.

Notably, you can backtrack nearly every major event of the past month to actions taken by our own country:

o Kim Jung Il test fires a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan. Just one more escalation of their response since seeing what action President Bush took upon the *first* nation listed in his "Axis of Evil" speech, and following three years of an unwillingness of the Bush Administration to engage in direct talks with North Korea, choosing instead to lob verbal insults toward its leader.

o Iran has resumed, and accelerated, its nuclear research projects for precisely the same reasons. As well, have taken part in encouraging Iraq's burgeoning civil war for its own ends, and may be assisting Hamas as another way of "getting back at" the U.S..

o Terrorist bombing in India - In 2001, India and Pakistan were trading nuclear weapons tests in the Indian Ocean, which ceased when we made nice with them in order to access Afghanistan, thus balancing the power between them and India. In 2005, President Bush visits India and agrees to allow India to continue its nuclear weapons buildup. Still engaged in hostilities with neighboring Pakistan over ownership of Cashmere, when our new found ally Pakistan asked for the same consideration, President Bush told them "No". So in exchange for their (Pakistan's) help in tracking down bin Laden and travel over their country to invade Afghanistan, we have returned the favor by giving their enemy permission to build more nukes. The reaction, resumed/increased hostilities in Cashmere.

o Civil War in Iraq - After "regime change" in Afghanistan went over so smoothly (relatively speaking) with the ousting of the Taliban from power and installing our own hand-picked oilman to the Presidency, the Bush Administration assumed Iraq would go just as easily and spent almost no time in the post planning. Their "plan" was quite obviously to oust Saddam Hussein and quickly install Ahmed Chalibi, a known embezzler that had been petitioning the US to invade Iraq for nearly a decade by providing (false) information on Saddam's WMD's (you'd think SOMEONE in the Bush Administration might of asked how someone that had been an exile for over a decade could know so much about Saddam's secret weapons capabilities?) as their new President. But when we invaded and found no WMD's, questions quickly arose. Chalibi was not installed into power, and since no "Plan B" had been formulated or even a "second choice" for President, the government in Iraq quickly fell into complete disarray and the nation into civil war. Meanwhile, Contractors have made BILLIONS in no-bid contracts with minimal oversight.

o Israel is now bombing Lebanon in hopes that it will prompt them to put pressure on Hezbolla for the abduction of two Israeli soldiers. The Israeli soldiers were abducted in response to Israel's shelling of the "buffer zone" in Northern Gaza. Israel shelled Northern Gaza because Palestinians were launching rocket attacks on Israel from this territory. The Palestinians were launching rockets in this territory in retaliation for quartering off Gaza and restricting travel in and out of the territory (inflicting serious hardships, food shortages and danger for those that needed to travel into Israel to work or shop). The "right" of Israel to "quarantine" Gaza n this way was supported by the Bush Administration as "justified in Israel's War on Terror".

So an argument can be made that agendas by both Corporatist war-mongers and Religious Rapture fantasizers both helped advance overlapping policies in this Administration to turn "The Rapture" into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

PS: And if the Bush Administration can be blamed for the recent tsunamis in Indonesia, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.


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[Skidmore]

1. What a shame if, after all the evolution of mankind,

it disappears from the face of the earth due to a bunch of doomsday cultists hellbent on making us extinct.

[Mugsy]

2. Does seem that way.

Four weeks after Bush took office in 2001, he was asked "Is Russia our ally?" He replied "We'll see."

"We'll see"??? "We'll see"???

At that time, I wrote someone that "this guy is going to get us into a war before he leaves office!" The concept of "diplomacy" was completely absent from his thinking. And it was even more visible in his overheard comments regarding Syria at the G8 yesterday. He's "answer" to the current situation carried with it all the simplisity of the average redneck I see around me where "nothing is complicated" and "turn an entire country to glass" is worth considering because people in other countries aren't real to them.