The first half of 2006 is over...the hottest on record.
Record flash floods are devastating Ohio and various parts of the northeast US.
Record wildfires continue to broil the southwest US.
The price of oil has shot to a new record high.
The economy is divebombing.
World War III has begun in the Middle East.
Is this the end of days?
Have Bush and his clan members that believe in the rapture, actually created a self-fulfilling prophecy?
While Bush and Co. is not directly to blame for the weather...I don't have to go into the "Clear Skies" initiatives and all the lovely things Georgie and his crew have done for the environment.
Global warming aside, let's talk about WWIII.
As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is no way the kind of tension going on right now in Palestine would be there if it weren't for our Iraq debacle.
But even then, Bush and crew can't take all the blame for U.S. foreign policy. It's been fucked for decades.
We have coddled Israel for so long. Do you remember the last time Israel shelled Lebanon? Back in 1982? Yeah, we helped them back then. When that happened, that really pissed off Osama Bin Laden:
God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed -- when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women.
Leave it to a liberal to quote Osama Bin Laden, right? No wrong. I'm not even that liberal of a person. I am more libertarian than anything. You are using the wrong L-word. I am logical.
We have to remember that these people...the "evildoers" with their "culture of death"...they are not blowing themselves up because they enjoy killing. They don't "hate us for our freedom." They hate us for the actions that our government and military take.
We supported and continue to support the Israeli occupation of Palestine, while Israel kills tens of thousands of innocent people.
We helped support Saddam Hussein as he killed tens of thousands of innocent people...then we bombed the shit out of him and Iraq when he invaded Kuwait. After the first gulf war, we sanctioned crumbling Iraq and let half a million children starve and wither away and die...and then eventually we invaded the country and killed another 100,000 civilians and counting.
Then we have the nerve to call poor people with nothing to lose...terrorists?
It's ok to kill innocent people as long as you do it in a military uniform? It's fucking bullshit, and you all know it...and if you don't know it you are fucking ignorant or in denial...blinded by the fading hue of the red, white, and blue.
We helped to create this terrorism, and the only way we're going to stop it is to stop commiting it.
The foreign policy of our past planted the seeds.
The foreign policy of the present, constructed by Bush and Cheney and the Project for a New American Century, helped grow and nurture the tree into what is is today.
The end of days is upon us.
How's your conscience?