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The Hour of Lead

At any hour now, from the greatest military might in the history of humankind, a vast dragon designed only for the killing of human beings will be unleashed by the United States from safe skies, over a defenseless third world country, half of whose people are children. 

By: Lisa Walsh Thomas - 03/19/03

 

"This is the Hour of Lead - Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons recollect the snow - First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go" -  Emily Dickinson 

A note for history: 


The general consensus is that Iraq will be basically decimated, safe enough only for western workers in biohazard suits to return in order to operate the oil refineries which will provide part of the economic power needed in order to dominate the world. 

There is nothing approximating a consensus approving this invasion. The only notable popular support comes from people in the United States. 

Pope John Paul II prayed almost hourly to his God and believed he was told that this war is immoral. His envoy delivered the message to George W. Bush. The pope was joined by the leaders of almost every Protestant Church in the U.S. with the exception of the Southern Baptists. Their God was against this invasion. 

Jim Winkler, the General Secretary of the United Methodist Church (George W. Bush's church), says, "It is inconceivable that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior and the Prince of Peace, would support this proposed attack." 

Pleas to stop this rush to war were issued by Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, by Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, a large majority of the members of the United Nations, the EU, and NATO. The opposition was voiced by Noam Chomsky, Jimmy Carter, and tens of millions of people across the world, who sought spiritual and religious and moral guidance from their God. 

George W. Bush, whose publicists have pushed as a devout Christian, appears to have heard a voice of God saying that diplomacy should consist of threats and that the time for threats was over and it is time to kill. This God of George W. Bush is a harsh one, standing alone against the God of almost all the world's religions, one unfathomable to most of the world. 

It begins in a few hours. This IS the hour of lead, with all its poisons, and apparently the God of Pope John Paul II was dealt a bad hand this time.

 

Lisa Walsh Thomas is a former journalist, sixties activist, poet and contributing political writer to Liberal Slant, Practical Radical, Online Journal, and www.AmericaHeldHostile.com  She has a column, "The Raven's Nest" at: http://practicalradical.net/raven.html  and is the founder of "Mad Grandparents. saavedra1979@yahoo.com 

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