Looking for the Holy Grail...
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"When the Christians took Jerusalem, again, the captives were sold into slavery. That, combined with stealing everything that could be carried off, seemed to make the venture - if not profitable, at least plausible.
America has found no similar way to profit from its Eastern campaign. A few defense contractors, and a handful of Texas oilmen, have made money on the deal. But for the United States as a whole, the project has been a colossal financial drain...with about price tag of about $4,000 per American family so far.
But it would be a mean-spirited Ebeneezer who would count the cost of such an uplifting campaign. This is a Holy Crusade, after all. Fourteen hundred U.S. dead...thousands more Iraqis...$200 billion...is any price too high for the benefits of the ballot box? Our defenders of the faith - George II and Tony I - have launched a crusade of sanctimonious idolatry worthy of the Borgia popes. The Sodoms of anti-democratic infidelity along the Tigris and Euphrates have been attacked...and largely destroyed. "Insurgents," are regarded as a cross between cannibals and the devil himself. They are "evil," says Brooks in The New York Times, no less. Had he lived in an earlier era he might accuse them of sorcery.
Like any crusade, the War in Iraq, has its rituals, its saints, its sacraments, its relics, its holy writs and its holy martyrs.
Last Sunday, Iraqis stood in line to take the sacrament. Instead of marking their foreheads with ashes, as Christians will do next Wednesday, they dipped their fingers in blue ink - as proof that they had come to the holy place and been sanctified. Whatever sins they had committed in that benighted era before the U.S. invasion were cast out. Now they were democrats, solemnly marking their sacred ballots with the sign of the cross.
Thus, the Mesopotamian tribes have been delivered from evil...at least for now."
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By Bill Bonner
February 7, 2005
www.dailyreckoning.com
Onward Christian Soldiers.
James
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