Author’s update:
It has truthfully been said, the Past is Prologue. We will begin with a story from the past as a hint to the future…the following is an original private letter first circulated on December 26, 1990, among this author’s professing Christian friends, including Deacons of a large Baptist church, on the eve of Operation Desert Storm, the first BushGulf War.
We are in danger from a hidden enemy within. Our country's leaders are openly attempting to sell or bully our people into war. This will be a war that can only bring sadness and death to many--some our own sons and daughters. If President Bush (George H. W. Bush throughout, the Father of GW Bush), Secretary of State Baker and staff are unable to convince the American people that war is good for us, they plan to taunt and agitate the other side into an "unprovoked attack." A first strike will force the American people to accept a war, a war that has no logic from our point of view and which no one wants, except our leaders. This disaster will happen unless a grass roots movement from the American people is sufficiently powerful to stop our leaders. This is why I am writing to you. It will be your war to fight and pay for. Will you help to stop it?
To provoke an attack, Mr. Bush has selected the ago-old tactic of the bully--humiliation and insult--to make the other guy start the fight. Most recently the president has made it known he did not want the hostages released and, in fact, stated he "gave no credit whatsoever to Hussein for releasing the hostages." Bush has repeatedly referred to the Arab leader as a "dog." I am told by a businessman who has spent much time doing business in Saudi Arabia that to call an Arab a dog is a mortal insult, yet Bush repeatedly refers to Hussein as a "mad dog," a deliberate insult before Hussein's people, requiring a fight to the death in the Arab Culture.
Deliberate acts of provocation are not new in our history. FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) used similar tactics to mortify the imperial rulers of Japan in 1939, as is well-documented in Charles Callan Tansill's BACK DOOR TO WAR, in which he carefully documented the use of ethnic insult to the character of Japanese dignitaries, virtually forcing them to attack. The now widely accepted theory that these acts were intended to provoke attack is supported by the fact that President Roosevelt and his aides not only knew in advance of the impending attack, but arranged for the Pacific fleet to be a convenient target for the expected attack, all of which was well-documented in Admiral Theobald's book, The Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor, and other credible sources.
Mr. Roosevelt, like Mr. Bush, made no secret of his desire to enter war, but it required no less than an attack in the Pacific to provoke the war-weary and depression-weary American people into the war FDR had secretly promised to his future ally, Joseph Stalin. Note that FDR and staff manipulated a "Back Door to War", as Professor Tansill put it, by first manufacturing an enemy where none existed; second, provoking an attack; and third, arranging for a convenient target for the expected first strike. This is the pattern being replayed by George Bush in front of our eyes.
Now we see the specter of Mr. Gorbachev, leader of the most bloody-handed regime in all of recorded history, being begged to become an ally of our Marines in Saudi Arabia. Consider the fact that Russia armed Iraq with the weapons used today. I am sure you know from the news that the USSR has armed Iraq all the way back to the days of the Shah of Iran. But do you remember that only two years ago George Bush sided with and gave our money and arms to Iraq's Hussein against the Ayatollah of Iran? Mr. Bush has been inconsistent about who he supports in the East, but his actions have been absolutely and perfectly consistent in promoting instability in the Arab East by jumping from side to side and providing arms to all sides, including Israel.
While President Bush agitates for war, the institutional press is openly fostering a hate campaign directed at Moslems, another example of brainwashing us with the idea that life is cheap and that government should not be questioned when it uses human lives as chess pawns. Ignored by the press are the lives of those on the other side. We are supposed to think we are in Desert Shield to punish dictator Hussein, but no one mentions that it will not be he who suffers from sanctions and war, but the widows and orphans of thousands who will be left mutilated and destitute, just as the Afghanis' families have been destroyed by the Russian invasion. Mr. Bush is unashamedly selling war, but never does he discuss the consequences of war -- death.
Christians are also being taken in by the war scheme, based on the erroneous idea that believers are yoked to the modern Zionist nation of Israel and, the theory goes, since all Moslems are considered enemies of Israel, anything we or the Israelis do to Moslems, no matter how cruel or inhuman, is not only OK, but in some inexplicable way, God's will. I recently heard a Sunday School leader say, "Didn't God use the Israelites to wipe out entire populations in the Old Testamen? Maybe he is using us to rid the world of Arabs." Christians are also being subtly programmed to think of the Moslems as sub-human, just as we are supposed to think of the unborn as non-babies. I will not be surprised if George Bush, who is prepared for and demanding the pagan slaughter of thousands, will soon be telling us we must join in a Holy War against the Moslem people.
What then, are Mr. Bush's motives for demanding war? We are left to guess at his motives and to rationalize the assumptions that our leaders share our concerns about human life, that they know what is good for us and are acting accordingly. Not so. President Bush is carrying out someone else's agenda. This can be plainly seen in his effort to hand over military authority to the United Nations. Let us examine the purposes of the UN.
What is the UN, who runs it and for whose benefit is it run? Why is the United Nations asked to make the decisions affecting the lives of American boys? And why would our president want such a thing, if he were not controlled by someone else? Is not Congress solely responsible, under our Constitution, to declare war? Who gave the President authority to give your and my representative vote to a world government; and have you noticed how frequently we hear the call for a United Nations-ruled "World Order"? Whose are these voices?
There is no doubt in my mind that war is, in fact, a tool to eliminate our Constitution and with it the remaining legal protections we enjoy. War is a tool to transfer control of our defense from Congress to an internationally-controlled United Nations. Iraq is only a pawn. When the war ends, more of our freedoms will be gone, just as prayer in schools and protection for the unborn are gone, and our right to protest, petition and vote meaningfully will be gone, conceded to a one-world United Nations government, snugly controlled by those with dictatorial designs who already control our President, George Bush. Mr. Bush has shown himself to be right in the middle of someone else's plans for our freedom.
If you consider the facts behind the news in the light of my arguments, I believe you will recognize the tactics of those who control Mr. Bush in his actions. These tactics are: (1) create an enemy where none exists, (2) provoke an attack that can be branded as "unprovoked, the act of a mad man, Hitler, etc.", and finally, (3) create a sitting target, like the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, to arouse the wrath of American people and the American Congress to war. Such a target has been created with 300,000 American troops sitting on the desert of Saudi Arabia.
It is up to Christians to say an unconditional "No" to war. I have heard every argument and excuse for war, but I know of no scriptural or practical justification for our presence in Saudi Arabia, and if you know of one, I would like to hear it. Christians are misguidedly supporting this action without consideration of consequences or alternatives. Our President and those who control his actions are pagans, as proved by their willingness to participate in a slaughter involving their own people. In another time Mr. Bush might have been tried for crimes against his fellow men. We have become so used to misdeeds in high office that we no longer call them by their right names. Treason is not too strong a word for such misuse of trust and, if it is to be stopped, it must be you who stops it.
May God forgive us if, by our inaction, we allow genocide against Moslem women and children and the sacrifice of even our own children. The average Christian could not even tell you the name of the deposed King of Kuwait (Emir Shikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah) or provide a single reason why we should sacrifice the life of one American boy to put him back in power.
If you agree with even small part of what I have presented, please write to your congressman before January 15, 1991. Better yet, call him while he is home on Christmas vacation and tell him, "No war and no United Nations One World Government now or ever". - End of original letter.
POST SCRIPT September 2, 1996
For the second time in three years, President Clinton launched missile attacks on the war-destroyed ruins of the Iraqi boy military. In 1993, eighteen months after the supposed end of the war, 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles created an inferno in a residential section of Baghdad, killing eight civilians and injuring an untold number. Among the civilian deaths was the most famous Iraqi artist, who was killed in her home as she slept.
Clinton's September 2 sneak attack was not on targets in Kurdish sections of northern Iraq, where the trouble was purported to be, but on targets in southern Iraq, which is seemingly unrelated to and far from the supposed excuse for war. Again we are told that this is to make Saddam Hussein suffer. But we have seen his photos, and he seems to be quite well. His subjects are suffering the worst kind of privation from war and starvation caused by a relentless State Department-created blockade. What Christian precept allows this?
We Americans are suffering too; just check gas prices at the pump since the latest bombing raids on Iraq. But the greatest damage is not to our purses, but to our freedoms. Once again the president has overstepped all decency as well as his Constitutional authority with his unilateral war. Sadly, it is mostly to the applause of our Congressmen. - End post script 1996.
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December 26, 1990