Richard A. Stitt: Will Republican Lies and Pornography Lead to Their Taking Back Control In 2010?

BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY
by Richard A. Stitt
 
The charge by all too many Republicans that Barack Obama is a Muslim justifies the hatred that spews from their racist, right-wing, paranoid mob of teabaggers and birthers. It feeds into the vitriol that keeps the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq going on precisely because they perceive these wars to be religious battles between the righteous, the Republicans, and those who disagree with them, the infidels.
 
We heard this proclamation early in the Iraq War when General William Boykin, dressed in full uniform, stood behind a church lectern and stated, "George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States….he was appointed by God." In denouncing Islam, Boykin added, "My God is bigger than his God. I knew my God was a real God, and his was an idol."
 
Thus, their mission was stenciled in place for the justified torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. They, the Islamic people, were inferior people whose god was an idol. Therefore, the God-appointed G. W. Bush became the Crusader-In-Chief with unlimited, divinely endowed authority to kill whomever he so desired. And kill he did.
 
Even if Obama was a Muslim, so what? Most of the hatred for Obama is coming from the fundamentalist, mostly Bible literalists who justify the murders of "swarthy skinned" (Ann Coulter's description) people from the Middle East.
 
Iraq was (and still is) a broken country that had no military when G.W. Bush decided to abandon the real war against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, put over 4,400 U.S. military in body bags and slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children, putting them in early graves, all based on lies and deceit over the non-existent WMDs. Of course, this was partly driven by Bush's sick mind and gut instinct, lured by Svengalis such as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and others who encouraged him to carry out his massacre with the justification that it was a divinely ordained crusade to conquer the entire Middle East and convert their people from Islam to Christianity.
 
Looking back on the Bush-Cheney obsession to alter the Middle East landscape, we can see how it encompassed and fortified the idea of Manifest Destiny, mainly by the right-wing moral purists. The apartheid Republican Party today preserves G. W. Bush's crusade of carnage that is still being waged in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
 
Only this time, we no longer hear the lofty language of how noble the Afghanistan War is or, in G.W. Bush's own words, "I must say, I'm a little envious. If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed. It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks." Yes, he really did say this on March 14, 2008.
 
Islam is not the problem we're dealing with. If that were the case, over 200 million people living in Indonesia would also be on the Republican extremists' target list. If they think smashing mostly unarmed civilians with drone aircraft and bombs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq will purify the world and purge the infidels, then our country is in deep, deep trouble if this mob ever gets the reins of power again.
 
Looking over our shoulder is China, the most militarily ascendant country today that possesses weapons and armies far superior to those of Islamic countries. The closer the warmongers on a crusade come to annihilating entire races of people based on a warped sense of religious hegemony, the greater the threat is to all of us.
 
To the new face of the GOP and Republican hate mongers who wrap themselves in the cross and the flag and who want to murder people because of their skin color or religion, they might try re-reading the Sermon on the Mount before they spout their warmongering jeremiads. But that would only make sense if they understood or took to heart the discourse delivered by Jesus to the disciples and others, containing the Beatitudes and important fundamentals of Christian teaching. Matthew 5-7; Luke 6:20-49.
 
President Barack Obama is not a Muslim; he is a Christian; he is a citizen of the United States, not a Kenyan as the birthers' lies claim; He was elected by one of the biggest majorities in both the electoral college and the popular vote by the people of America.
 
If the militant theocrats in the Republican Party of No don't like it, they should move to Iran where the State and Religion are one and the same. As the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy: "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior" (1 Timothy 2:1-3, NIV). That is, except Paul's plea doesn't sit so well with the apartheid Republican Party who saw their dream of a permanent dynasty dashed on November 4, 2008.
 
Praying for our leaders does not mean praying for our leader's death by assassination or the overthrow of our democracy by armed mobs and insurrection. But that is exactly what the Republicans are instigating. By displaying their pornographic photos of corpses of Jews gassed and shot by the Nazis during World War II, the Republican Party has shown the American people that there are no tactics vile enough, no propaganda insidious enough nor any message depraved enough for them to attain their burning ambition to regain power in 2010.
 
The violent face brandished by the Republican Party of No and their proxies on Screech Radio and Shout TV is consumed with Barack Obama hatred and devoured by a contagion that a black man is in the White House, an edifice that was built by black slaves. Unfortunately for America, the Republican Party of the 21st Century persists in the belief that only a white man should occupy it. That is a terrible burden to bear since it is the only message that consumes them and has mesmerized their shrinking political base.
 
November 4, 2008 is the day America got our country back again. "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas -- Fool me…"
 
Let's not get fooled again.

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Richard A. Stitt
Austin, TX

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