Monday, November 01, 2004

Today's the eve of the US presidential elections, and many hope,including me,the eve of GWBush's term as president (not exactly as the incumbent remains president until inauguration of the new president in December or January).
These last few years have brought nothing but lies, deceits, trickery and oppression from the American (GWB) administration. Nothing illustrates this more than the Iraq war and occupation but along the way there's been countless examples and incidents revealing the guile and injustice perpetuated by GWBush and his administration. See Fahrenheit 911, remember VP Cheney telling a senator IN the senate chamber to "Go FUCK yourself!", read about the awarding of contracts without any bidding to Halliburton and the other shady business deals that went on, read about the growing deficit of the US, the continuous support to big business corporations, the Weapons of Mass Destruction accusation bullshit which even had them threatening Iran for a while and the branding of anyone who asks tough questions to or criticises the administration as being UNPATRIOTIC, traitorous and hating their country(US).
We mustn't forget Iraq, which many people instead of asking how just are the US in running the country, are being caught up in their prejudices of the 'barbaric and uncivilised' Muslims/Arabs/Iraqis, which is something that's promoted by the US administration who refer to all and any Iraqi fighters as terrorists or extremist.
Through all the news reports of violence and death especially to American and allied personnel and western workers, we hardly hear about the total death toll that's resulted from US military actions. This article, written by a former UN arms inspector in Iraq, claims that there's been over 100,000 Iraqi deaths since the US occupation. It first appeared in the
Guardian newspaper of UK.

Some people favor Bush because of his policies which ring true to Christians such as being against legal abortion, homosexual marriages while John Kerry and his Deomocrats support the opposite of these measures. This is true. Christians don't think this is right, neither do I.
However the big question is whether as Christians, is it more important to oppose homosexuality or the killing and exploitation of countless thousands and millions in foreign lands??