When I read stuff like this (Bush’s statement, not the viewpoints of the author of this source, although I would have some arguments with his typical separation of church and state argument), I just marvel at how people on the right miss the irony and hyporcisy of it

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Last week in an address before the National Endowment for Democracy, Bush once again wrongly and willfully conflated Iraq, where no weapons of mass destruction were found, with 9/11, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. In doing so, he decried the ‘’evil” of terrorists who misuse religion.

‘’This ideology is very different from the religion of Islam,” Bush said. ‘’This form of radicalism exploits Islam to serve a violent political vision: the establishment, by terrorism and subversion and insurgency of totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom.”

Bush added, ‘’Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy teaches that innocent individuals can be sacrificed to serve a political vision. And this explains their cold-blooded contempt for human life.”

The bolded area is what I mean. Huh? And this is not what we are doing HOW? It’s EXACTLY what Iraq is about. EXACTLY. What a bold faced deceiver. What a misuer of religion. And then there’s Bush’s “Sometimes you got to step aside from religion when you’ve got a job to do”. That’s not just “an unfortunate use of words” as some on the right have said in order to obscure the light this sheds on Bush’s depth of spirituality. This points to a shallow, secularist view of “religion” as a “useful tool” to get what you want.

Now we learn this weekend that lawmakers are now pushing for further cuts in programs for the poor in ordser to defray the cost of Katrina relief. All the while, tax cuts for millionaires are being increased from 100,000 dollars to 120, 000. Shameful. Hypocritical. EVIL. But then, what else can we expect from this crew? They’ve already shown us their absolute belief in the spreading of EMPIRE.