Yes, that's what I meant too. Thank you for clarifying the point that religion is the tool, but it's a tool for the U.S. as well. Since "the love of money is the root of all evil" the real cause for this offensive is all about the money. What money? I'll get to that, first let me point out that the video on those mountains that are being played on constant repeat here shows people living in a way that we Americans find deplorable because it is vastly different from our way of life. Yet the videos show that these hungry and thirsty victims are moving uphill with goats, sheep and perhaps a few cattle too. Those would provide enough meat and milk for any suffering souls. Is it possible, I ask rhetorically, that the media is the tool selling us on a message of dire circumstances? In the past couple days, before today, an interesting point slipped into the media and has become a major point today, second only to our so-called humanitarian mission. That point being how important the Kurds are because they work with us and we must protect them; also, most of the oil in Iraq is in the region of the Kurdish people. Is it possible, again I ask rhetorically but have will at your pleasure, that we are being sold a load of crap? "The love of money is the root of all evil." Let all who believe that Word is inspired of God, brought forth by the Holy Spirit itself, open their eyes and ears that they might see and hear the more probable realities. "If you remain in my word... you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." Interestingly, the Kurds are the same people over whom Saddam Hussein was accused of "gassing his own people." How did the crying Yezidi woman make it to our congress to plead for help for her people who are fleeing in fear of genocide?
I recall the Kuwaiti woman, before George Herbert Walker Bush led us into Desert Storm, who came crying that Saddam's soldiers were pulling "babies out of incubators." That story proved to be a lie, but not before we went to war. Before the second G. Bush took us to war in Iraq, the only journalist, the CNN host Judy Woodruff was the only reporter to bring up that historical lesson as a warning to exercise caution and she was inexplicably gone from the network. She now is co-anchor of the PBS Newshour. We "little people" are so easily fooled and dragged along. If you care about our troops, you'd pay better attention when our government--acting on behalf of Wall St. and OPEC-- send them off to kill or be killed or maimed for "the love of money" they'll never see for themselves. Our gov't won't even take care of them after they come home from battle. It's disgustingly repulsive for any of us to believe lies so easily. It's even more reprehensible for believers to not know their god or his word well enough to know they are being lied to. Even if they don't know it's lying, that they would condone so easily the judgments from the kings of the earth who get to declare who is worthy of living and who is not. Sorry, I get carried away sometimes, but I said nothing that needs to be retracted. How quickly we destroy the Word of God for what we want to believe, for our personal gratification.