The Anti-Manichaeist

Bush and his Administration lied when they claimed proof of a direct link between Iraq and Al Quaeda in the push for GWII and he and others have still claimed the lies as facts long after they have been disproven. 
Read it here and pass it on.  One doesn’t have to be the devil to further […]

There is a “grave sectarian crisis” gripping the country. 
Iraq’s government is “facing a generalised breakdown of law and order which presents a serious challenge to the institutions of Iraq”.
And we need to bear in mind that fact and our responsibility for it.
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Be prepared to be Spun!
I Hate Politics!
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It looks like the “compromise” involved McCain, Warner and Graham caving into most of what the BushAdmin wanted or so Josh Marshall writes.  “the torture compromise is that we agreed not to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions, only to continue violating them.”
I don’t trust most US papers to deal squarely with this, so I’ll point to […]

Amy Sullivan, former aide to former Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle and former editor of Washington Monthly, is now among the featured writers at Faithful Democrats and among Jim Wallis’s friends at his God’s Politics blog, where Ralph and Jim have had more “dialogical” exchanges.  (ps, I really dislike Ralph’s pic.  It’s so unnaturally “pimped […]

Just in time, there is now a documentary on war-profitting from Gulf War II. 
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq […]

is Christianity and nothing else…according to renown secularist Jürgen Habermas. 

As has been pointed out by Ron Sider, Mark Noll and others, “born again” Evangelical Christianity in the US is not well in the US.  Fortunately, I think its revival will take place with the help of critical but respectful biblical scholarship stemming from European Christians, like my German New Testament professor Thorsten Moritz, and the fervor of […]

I have to take issue with Bush’s Doctrine.  In his recent speech to the UN, Bush
returned over and over to the twin pillars of the so-called Bush Doctrine, saying the US would not shirk from fighting terrorists and was as determined as ever to spread freedom and democracy, especially in the Middle East.
How do the […]

I am glad Bush made it clear we were not against Islam. 
And I am very glad about what he said about Sudan.