For those buy-bull bangers who insist that god orders all things that happen, I want you to think about something. President Bush claimed that God told him to invade Iraq. You all followed right along, cheering, screaming with joy at each fallen Iraqi body shown on the nightly news. Well, where was your God then? Seen any hurricanes strike Iraq? Or Iran? No? Or floods, like those hitting the Midwest and the US Northeast the last two years? Seen any equivalent disasters hitting Iran or Iraq?

Or tornadoes? The US has been hit with record-level tornadoes in 2007 and 2008. See any significant number of tornadoes over Iraq? Over Iran? No? In 2009 record cold hit the North American continent ... in MAY! Oklahoma has lost 90% of its wheat crop. Bread will become a costly luxury, especially as the economy continues to crumble.

How about wildfires? Humboldt County is still charred. There is a black scar running across Southern California from Los Angeles to San Diego from last year's fires. Ever see wildfires like that in the nations Bush tells you God wants destroyed? No? Major crop loss from freak cold snaps?

Now comes Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike.

Hmmmmm.

Take a good look at the map for the H1N1 flu pandemic. Looks like the pestilence is hitting the war-mongering nations, rather than those Muslims we were all told God wanted destroyed.

Better think this one through. Bush coveted the oil wealth of Iraq. In order to get that wealth Bush bore false witness to We The People, the Congress, and the world. Bush then stole that wealth, and killed a lot of people in the process. And by claiming that God told him to do all that Bush took the Lord's name in vain, I think. So, he's batting 500 in terms of breaking the Ten Commandments, ... and all who support him are accessories to the crime.

The United States stands exposed of torturing innocent people to coerce false confessions to justify the invasion of Iraq. Innocent people were tortured to death.

Children were tortured.

Children.

And what is the result? Did your God deliver a swift and easy victory to George Bush by flinging The Wrath Of God (tm, reg US Pat Off) onto the heathen?

No, the Wrath Of God (tm, reg US Pat Off) is hitting the nation that invaded Iraq based on that false witness thing I mentioned before. Hurricane Katrina wrecked our largest seaport, through which America's war machine exports much of its cargoes of death around the globe. Katrina also savaged the oil infrastructure, and oil is the lifeblood of conventional warfare. The midwestern floods are cutting rail lines into the west, and have destroyed an entire corn crop, exacerbating an already critical food shortage. "Famine" is on the Wrath Of God (tm) menu, if I recall correctly. Now we cower in a record cold winter, yet despite the heavy snow pack in the mountains, drought is predicted for the western United States this year. "Drought" is on the Wrath Of God (tm, reg US Pat Off) menu as well.

And as Obama picks up the sword of war from Bush, now we are told we have a plaque stalking those nations that aligned to invade Iraq on false pretenses. And very little trace of that plaque in the lands Bush insisted God wanted destroyed.

The government's defenders are desperately tried to explain away hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, famine, freezing, drought, and plague as God's punishment against the gays or the blacks or the abortionists, but when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita bore down on those Texas refineries, the message, if there really was one, is clear. The hurricanes are not pointed at gays. The storms are aimed at the United States' capacity to fuel its war machine. The disasters are aimed at the food that feeds the soldiers. Indeed the plaque seems aimed at all those who supported this war based on false pretenses.

Now for myself, I'm a non-believer, so I see Katrina and Rita and the storms creating the midwest/northeastern flooding and the tornadoes and the wildfires and the freezing and the drought and the plaque as the result of natural events meeting inadequate preparations, emphasis on "inadequate". Plus some stupid mistakes at the bioweapons labs. What should have been manageable disasters were turned into catastrophes because money and materials needed to prevent flood damage, control dead brush that feeds wildfires, and purchase needed equipment for disaster relief was diverted to funds the wars, which the Senate Intelligence Committee has confirmed were the result of being "misled" (politician-speak for "lied to"). And the National Guard, who are supposed to be standing by in the states to deal with natural disasters are also off in the Middle East fighting Bush's wars as well.

But for those of you who buy into the God gambit, those of you who believe that God ordaineth every bird that flies and every leaf that falls, your own beliefs have to be telling you that something is very much out of whack. All the biblical signs of an angry God are directed at the United States and its allies. Storms, flooding, wildfires, famine, pestilence; the list goes on.

Bush lied when he said God was directing his actions, and those costumed child molesters holding those collection plates who cheered Bush along, well, they were lying too. They have broken 5 of the 10 commandments. And they have tricked you into breaking them as well. Because you can no longer pretend you don't know something is very wrong, and you can no longer pretend you don't know that Iraq (and soon to be Iran) is an unholy war. The Wrath Of God (tm, reg US Pat Off) is aimed at the heartland of the USA, and the throttle is set to full-tilt boogie rock and roll!

Then there is Israel's Operation CAST LEAD in which Israel broke the cease fire with Hamas and launched an attack into Gaza, killing mostly civilians, using inappropriate weapons such as white phosphorus. The United States paid for the weapons. Indeed as Israel; began to run out, the US Government sent even more. The canisters of white phosphorus that fell on a school full of children bore marking proving they were made in the United States.

And, funny thing, but recent genetic studies prove that the present-day Palestinians are direct descendants of the Biblical Hebrews, including presumably a certain carpenter turned Rabbi. So all that made-in-the-US white phosphorus has been falling on some of Jesus kinfolk. Think maybe the boss's son holds a grudge?

It is a compelling set of facts, isn't it? If I were a believer I would have no choice but to conclude that the big guy in the sky is really, REALLY, pissed off at the US and its allies.

So, you are all damned. Damned, damned, damned! Damned to hell. And there can be no redemption while the warmongers are still in power. There is no absolution if you know a war of conquest against an innocent people is going on and you do nothing at all to stop it. There is no absolution if you know torture of innocent people is going on and you do nothing at all to stop it. The priests cannot forgive your sins if they share those sins, no matter how expensive those beads are. Having worked so hard to trick you into sin, would they really be eager to get you out? Just s\whose side are they on? Which God is it they really serve?

You have a simple choice, really. You're looking at the choice between regular and extra-crispy for all eternity so long as the everyone who lied to start the war and torture in any way remain in power.

Yessirree, regular, or extra-crispy!

Kinda sucks, doesn't it?