Why is Evil (&) Hussein A Public Debate?
by April Shenandoah
September 19, 2002
Lately, I can barely watch CNN, Fox News or MSNBC, let alone listen to the radio.
I am sick of hearing the same debate about whether or not we should go to war
with Iraq or not. Everyday the same people are putting in their same two cents
and trying to find new ways to say the same things. They are beating the subject
of Saddam Hussein to death (they may not have to have a war to get him). This
has got to be a distraction of some sort. Since when has an issue of war been
given over to the talking heads to thrash about?
In the past, war was announced, not decided on by HE LOVES ME HE LOVES ME NOT. Today it is all played out and laid out like a movie script, with the writers trying to agree on the plot. This -- get Hussein or not debate -- should be behind closed doors between the appropriate leaders of the War Department. Yes, we should know what our government is doing, but don't you get it? They only tell us what they want us to know anyway and they only tell us what they think we want to hear - so let them conduct their wars their way. We need to concentrate on a deteriorating America that needs fixing from the inside (we are being destroyed from the inside).
Bush going to the United Nations and telling them he now wants to cooperate with them on this issue is interesting - don't you think? Was Bush's speech another contrived move - knowing that Iraq would suddenly allow weapons inspectors in, for yet another stall? The United Nations, though on our soil, is not a friend to the American government or to "We the people." Yet many leaders suggest we do not make a move unless the UN gives its approval. The UN's planned agenda to enslave us is in full swing and for the most part we wake up everyday and go along with the program.
"We the People" could change everything that we complain about if we rallied together - however; we count on our government officials to fix the problems when in fact they only make them worse. We could have lower gas prices if we all decided not to drive for awhile - we could get the Ten Commandments posted on the walls of our schools if we stormed the halls of the schools and confronted our school boards - we could eliminate pornography from TV and computers if we had the guts -- we could even control the immigration problem, or any situation that is now out of control, if we banned together and insisted on solutions. Until we get mad enough we will be the puppets that the government has trained us to be!
We have been invaded by evil in this country, and it is going unchecked in the name of "freedom." Because we have bought the lie of "not offending" anyone, we are helping evil to prevail. The question that is asked, is what determines evil? One person's evil is another person's pleasure. Years ago we had no trouble defining evil because our moral compass was the Bible. Today the Bible has little relevance because WE allowed it to be undermined and stripped from the public arena.
Bill O'Reilly has one thing right when he says that most people do not understand the struggle between "good" and "evil." Hussein is described as an evil man, and by his past actions he appears to be evil. However, there is a lot of evil in many countries that we are conveniently overlooking. Evidently it is okay for Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan and China to persecute Christians. Pastors are dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night and tortured and imprisoned. Schools and churches are bombed killing children. Christian woman are raped and tortured on a regular basis. We scream about human rights and religious liberty, yet we pick and choose the country that will benefit us politically, before we become concerned with its evil. Hussein may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, however, we know China does, and they are pointed directly at us. May God have mercy on our political stupidity. ***
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