Lobbying for Armageddon .Iran. Chri$tian$ United for Israel at it again

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full bore. With the courtship of the GOP and "even some Dems." Fahhh!!


At CUFI's kick-off banquet at the Washington Hilton, attended by over 3,500 members, Republican support for both Hagee's effort and his drumbeat for war with Iran were on full view. Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman told the group that "no regime is more central to the global jihad" than Iran. Just two days before, Newt Gingrich and John McCain made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to sound the same message, leading Benny Elon, a member of the Israeli Knesset, to comment to the Jerusalem Post that their remarks originated with Hagee. Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback also addressed the group, and Bush sent words of support to the gathering. Republicans, and even some Democrats, spoke at CUFI events to show their "support for Israel." But while public and media attention was on the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Hagee's focus continued to be on Iran.


Lobbying for Armageddon

By Sarah Posner, AlterNet. Posted August 3, 2006.

Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it's not about geopolitics -- it's about bringing about the End Times.



In a perfect world, a reporter at last week's press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair would have asked Bush, in the presence of his principal European ally, if he believes the European Union is the Antichrist.

Although it sounds like the kind of Pat Robertson lunacy that makes even the wingnuts run for the nearest exit, it's a question Bush should be forced to answer. Bush and other leading Republicans have lined up behind a growing movement of Christian Zionists for whom a European Antichrist figures prominently in an end-times scenario. So they should be forced to explain to the rest of us why they're courting the votes of people who believe our allies are evil incarnate. Could it be that the central requirement for their breathlessly anticipated Armageddon -- that the United States confront Iran -- happens to dovetail so nicely with the neoconservative war agenda?


full story: http://www.alternet.org/story/39748/

bold emphasis mine.

[JuniperLea]

1. Megalomania

I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide
I hide myself inside the shadows of shame
The silent symphonies were playing their game
My body echoed to the dreams of my soul
It started something that I could not control
Where can I run to now? The joke is so mean.
No sympathizing god its insanity, yeah!

Why don't ya just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't ya just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed
Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed
Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes
I mixed reality with pseudogod dreams
The ghost of violence was something I'd seen
I sold my soul to be the human obscene
How could this poison be the dream of my soul?
How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah?

Why don't ya just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't ya just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?

Well I feel that something's taken me, I don't know where
It's like a trip inside a separate mind
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream
is telling me to leave it all behind
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Got to get to happiness, want no more of sorrow

How I lied went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
(I'm alright/Am I right) if I fight
That I might just get away from you now
Sting Me!

Well I feel that something's giving me the chance to return
It's giving me the chance of saving my soul
Beer (turned the/ prism) demigod I'm fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, from the depths of sorrow

Was it wise to disguise
How I tried to get away from you now?
Is there a way that I could pay
Or is it true I have to stay with you now?

How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
(I'm alright/Am I right) if I fight /*under alright is dizzy
That I might just get away from you now
Suck Me!

I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth
I'll chase my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine
I set the trap, but it was me who failed
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, from the depths of sorrow

No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worship you, yeah
Now I'm free, can't you see
And now instead I won't be led by you now
Priest!

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2. This would be funny

If it wasn't true. And the Israelis are eating this all up. I often wonder if the Israelis and those that support them realize that these maniacs are more of a threat then Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran combined?

They do realize that in order to bring about the End Times, that Israel is required to be destroyed, and that a small number of Jews are going to convert, while the rest die!!!

At least that's the way they tell it.

Always beware of the fanatic, because in the end they are all the same!!!!!

[JuniperLea]

3. Won't ya help me Mr. Jesus?

Won't ya tell me if you can?
When ya see this world we live in
Do ya still believe in man?
If my psalms become my freedom
And my freedom turns to gold
Then I'll ask the final question
If the answer could be sold




Sometime the only way I can fight the insanity that is this psudo-Christianity we are suffering is to bury myself in Black Sabbath.

[chill_wind]

4. These people suck. Get we get an Amen?

If not, how about some page recommends.

How do we fight this sh%#??!!

[whistle]

5. They are pushing for Israel to use nuclear weapons as God's will

...to punish the enemies of Israel. Total wackos.

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6. Bush called in blessings to the crowd. This is the RNC plan unfolding.

No Fundie with a checkbook Left Behind.

Don't underestimate the "viral marketing power" of this kind of frenzy.



(..)
According to a report posted at Israpundit, Hagee read greetings from President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Bush commented: "God bless and stand by the people of Israel and God bless the United States."

(...)

The news conference was followed by a trip to Capitol Hill to lobby congressional representatives.

While other organisations have mostly talked the talk, Hagee's CUFI has set out a bold agenda and it appears to have the resources and political connections to walk the walk: CUFI intends to not only establish a visible presence in hundreds of cities throughout all 50 states, but it also intends to recruit activists to lobby on behalf of Israel.

In addition, CUFI plans to set up an "Israel Rapid Response" network which through e-mail, faxes and phone calls will make its voice heard by elected officials.

To move CUFI's agenda from the planning stage to direct action, Hagee brought David Brog, a Washington insider, on board as the organisation's executive director. The hiring of Brog, who is Jewish, the former chief of staff for Pennsylvania Republican Sen.. Arlen Specter and the author of the recently published book "Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State," was a shrewd and politically savvy move.

much more:
Christian Right Steps Up Pro-Israel Lobby
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060726110753220

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7. David Blog at the helm. "A shrewd and politically savvy move".

More background:

Evangelicals, revisited
Former GOP Hill staffer touts role of Christian Zionists
by Paula Amann


David Brog is hoping American Jews will give the Christian right a second look. In his first book, Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State, the Republican former Senate staffer has penned a love poem in prose to evangelical Protestants.

Asked why he wrote the book, Brog, who was chief of staff to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) from 2003 to 2005 and earlier served five years as Specter's chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pointed to encounters with Christian Zionists during his years on Capitol Hill.

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Over the years, Brog relates, his personal Zionism shifted from the hard-line stance of Begin to the negotiating posture of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a distant cousin, to a security-minded, center-right stand.

"Indeed, he describes himself as coming "full circle from right-wing don't-give-an-inch, to a belief that territorial concessions might bring peace to the region and with the Palestinians ... to a belief that Israel should only make those concessions that it deems necessary to better protect its citizens from Palestinian terrorism."

(...)

http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=27&SubSectionID=25&ArticleID=5322&TM=59825.97


What a religio-political witches brew we seem to have here. A self-professed Zionist heading up and whipping up the Fundie Christian Zionists for the RNC Republicans, after schmoozing around in behind-the scenes-Senate-politics, steering the legal "ethics" of Arlen Specter.

Oh boy. And people here thought the deadly PNAC neoconservative shell game was over.