"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[pynchonoid]

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> Well, contrary to the coward Saddam Hussein who
> hides himself behind women
> and children Mr. Bush as a believing Christian at
> least accepts his
> responsibility that one day he will have to justify
> this before his creator.

Just curious, but have you actually read that
somewhere, or are you just assuming this because of
Bush's being a born-again Christian?

In my experience, born-again Christians
(fundamentalist, evangelical) express a certainty that
because they have declared Jesus to be their Lord and
Savior and because they follow the rules laid down by
their denomintion, they will be among the saved sheep
and not the goats who are sent to the fire on
Judgement Day; having claimed Jesus as their savior,
their past sins are forgotten, and as long as they
follow the rules they are assured a place in Heaven. 
As long as they believe that God is on their side,
telling them what to do, born-agains can do the most
appalling things -- aerial bombing of
civilian-infested targets, shooting ambulances full of
wounded women and children, lie to their constituents
(St. Paul claimed the right to lie for Jesus), etc.  

> Luckily I'm not the one who has to judge. Either
> he's very sure and really
> believes that his decisions are right or, if he's
> really the oil industry's
> puppet some people want to make of him, he's a
> better actor than Ronald
> Reagan ever has been in his first career.

Actually, you can see the marionette strings moving
Bush if you pay attention. 

He also acts like an ex-alcoholic who's still on a
dry-drunk -- here's a rather biased view: 
<http://www.counterpunch.org/hamod05092003.html>

> I'm beginning to
> share Rob's point that it
> isn't right to simply call elected leaders
> 'fascists' as long as there are
> really totalitarian leaders who are threatening
> their neighbors.

That's a very slippery slope.

> 
> Even if this has been a fabricated war I cannot help
> but feeling better that
> Saddam is gone and I cannot understand the Iraqis
> (has somebody asked the
> women?) insisting on another totalitarian regime of
> their own choice.

People don't always know what's best for themselves, I
guess.  That's why they need the elite, like Bush,
Cheny, Rummy, etc., to make them do what They know is
best. 



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