Bush's Spiritual Quest: Does God Tell Him to Kill and Deceive? 
While Bush lines up as self-proclaimed leader of the forces for good some mixed messages have been observed on the international scene. They were not in evidence in the mainstream media during a week when Katie Couric made her well-publicized CBS anchor review and interviewed drug-addicted Rush Limbaugh.
Meanwhile, in the real world, away from the submissive Limbaugh Dittoheads and Fox Zombies, it was reported that the UN nuclear watchdog protested to the U.S. government over a report on Iran's nuclear program, which counted as major news and was duly reported by Britain's BBC.
In a letter signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director at the International Atomic Energy Agency that was sent to Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, the charge was leveled that a congressional report contained serious distortions of the IAEA's own findings on Iran's nuclear activity.
A western diplomat called the congressional report and the UN's reaction "déjà vu of the pre-Iraq war period." The comparison affords food for thought in the wake of the war-like posturing of the Cheney-Bush Administration and beating of war drums by hawkish neocon columnists like Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol.
If intelligence can be skewed and a war propaganda campaign can be launched against Iraq with its prolific oil deposits, does not Iran possess a comparable potential? Does is not provide a truly inviting target for the Project for the New American Century and the rush to the global New World Order?
As Bush cloaked himself once again in a mantle of spirituality while he presumably continued direct contact with God, the German publication Der Spiegel presented a disparate viewpoint.
An article that appeared way back on February 20 of this year contained the following first sentence under the headline of "America's Shame: Torture in the Name of Freedom": "The new pictures from Abu Ghraib provide the most recent evidence: America's moral bank account is empty - and it has lost the image wars. The entire Muslim world no longer trusts the world's most powerful nation."
The same article contains a quote reflecting the most biting of irony. While Bush and others in his Administration trumpet the arrival of a new wave of democracy in Iraq that will hopefully be spread throughout the Middle East, Iraqi President Jalai Talabani distanced himself from Washington regarding the Abu Ghraib photos, stating that they are evidence of events "unworthy of a civilized society."
No wonder Bush, who promotes the myopic view that "you are either with me or against me", and the Rove-led propaganda machine has had to demonize former close European allies Germany and France with cheap media stunts such as the "patriotic renaming" of "freedom toast" aboard Air Force One. Americans should all be as hopefully submissive as the Fox Zombies and Limbaugh Dittoheads.
The neocon right talks one way and acts another, with Bush hurling God directly into the mix in his pursuit of conflict in the pursuit of economically dictatorial globalization for the benefit of the few, such as Halliburton, Bechtel, Monsanto, the Carlyle Group, and Kissinger and Associates.
Remember Reagan's references to Russia as the "Evil Empire"? His Administration orchestrated weapons to the later enemy Saddam Hussein along with the wherewithal to secure chemical weapons, which were used to generate genocide against his own Kurdish population.
Neocon apologists try to explain that away by insisting, "We had a different enemy then." Great, then under those circumstances genocide was acceptable policy. What an admission!
Under Reagan we also had his vigilant Central American campaign. That was to prevent that formidable Nicaraguan military power from invading Harlingen, Texas and posing a dire threat to America.
CIA assassination manuals were distributed to terrorists in El Salvador, all in the interest of perpetuating American freedom. The ultimate result of Reagan's vigilant Central American campaign was 300,000 lives lost.
That last-quoted figure is close to the estimate of civilian lives lost in Iraq, the land the neocons have promised to liberate through the auspices of global corporate giants swallowing up huge profits. That figure is 250,000 and steadily climbing.
Meanwhile Bush maintains his commune with God. Perhaps he needs to confer about the dissension in the ranks by Republican senators such as John Warner and John McCain over his torture policies.
In Bush's warped mind they clearly need his special kind of enlightenment. Will he remind Warner and McCain that "you are either with me or against me"?
KEYWORDS: Bush's Bizarre Spirituality, Iraq War, Abu Ghraib Torture Facilities, John McCain, John Warner, Rush Limbaugh
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