It's ironic that someone should post that story about the plight of Iraq's Christians, whose community has been pretty much destroyed according to various reports.
Before the invasion, one of the stories supporting an attack was that Iraq's Christian's were solidly demanding an invasion to overthrow the tyrant. If I remember correctly, the source of this info was our much beloved Fox News, whose team of reporters stumbled on a team of Christian missionaries fleeing Iraq in the middle of the Jordanian desert. The Pastor of these South Korean missionaries was able to reveal in dramatic terms, how urgently the Christians demanded immediate American action to relieve them of Islamic oppression.
This struck me as odd, because the Christians were not particular victims of Saddam, who was not religious, and it is unusual for people to want foreign armies to invade their country, so I did some checking.
I'm a bit hazy about the exact details after all this time, but the gist of it was that the Pastor's father was head of some obscure church that had links with the US. So much so, in fact, that daddy had been a guest at the White House and had been given a certificate praising him by George W.
How odd that George's favourite TV station should stumble on the son of one of George's favourite preachers in the middle of the Jordanian desert, only for the TV to be able to exclusively reveal that all the Iraqi Christians love George and want him to invade their country.
Now look where they are ... refugee camps and Germany. Of course, the story that they wanted the invasion was a fiction designed to strengthen the pro-war views of th e religious Right. Presumably it was all orchestrated by the CIA, with Fox's connivance.
It's ironic that someone should post that story about the plight of Iraq's Christians, whose community has been pretty much destroyed according to various reports.
Before the invasion, one of the stories supporting an attack was that Iraq's Christian's were solidly demanding an invasion to overthrow the tyrant. If I remember correctly, the source of this info was our much beloved Fox News, whose team of reporters stumbled on a team of Christian missionaries fleeing Iraq in the middle of the Jordanian desert. The Pastor of these South Korean missionaries was able to reveal in dramatic terms, how urgently the Christians demanded immediate American action to relieve them of Islamic oppression.
This struck me as odd, because the Christians were not particular victims of Saddam, who was not religious, and it is unusual for people to want foreign armies to invade their country, so I did some checking.
I'm a bit hazy about the exact details after all this time, but the gist of it was that the Pastor's father was head of some obscure church that had links with the US. So much so, in fact, that daddy had been a guest at the White House and had been given a certificate praising him by George W.
How odd that George's favourite TV station should stumble on the son of one of George's favourite preachers in the middle of the Jordanian desert, only for the TV to be able to exclusively reveal that all the Iraqi Christians love George and want him to invade their country.
Now look where they are ... refugee camps and Germany. Of course, the story that they wanted the invasion was a fiction designed to strengthen the pro-war views of th e religious Right. Presumably it was all orchestrated by the CIA, with Fox's connivance.