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Ohio Dummycrat wins today's bonehead statement award
Before launching a military strike against Iraq, Americans should consider their own history to remember how powerful the mix of religion and politics can be, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) said.
It's funny how a Dim has no problem bringing up religion with a straight face when it further's their agenda.
"If you think back to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution," Miss Kaptur said in an interview this week. She and the Rev. Jim Bacik, pastor of Toledoâs Corpus Christi University Parish, will speak at a workshop Friday for local Catholic leaders titled "Preaching and Teaching Peace in the Face of War."
| I'll bet they can hardly wait... |
When America "cast off monarchical Britain" in 1776, it involved the help of many religious people who had fled repression in other countries, the 11-term Toledo congressman said. Among the nontraditional American revolutionaries were the Green Mountain Boys, a patriot militia organized in 1770 in Bennington, Vt., to confront British forces, she said.
"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown," Miss Kaptur said.
So Osama would be the Muslim equivalent of, who? Washington? Jefferson? Ethan Allen? This ditz is an 11 term congressman? Way to go Toledo!
| One could maybe say that if one was deeply under the influence of powerful recreational medications, I suppose. Or if one had been dropped on one's head. I can't think of many other situations where... Oh. Yeah. I guess one could say that if one was a dim-witted congressperson who hasn't had any headlines in awhile and who thinks her district is really, really safe... |
In Iraq and other Arab nations where revolutions are potentially brewing, religious fervor will play a vital role in shaping political events, she said, and the United States must be careful "not to get caught in the crossfire."
We're already in the crossfire, honey. Go look at those 2 big holes in the ground in New York.
| It isn't getting "caught in the crossfire" when it's you they're shooting at... |
"I think that one thing that people of faith understand about the world of Islam is that the kind of insurgency we see occurring in many of these countries is an act of hope that life will be better using Islam as the only reed that they have to lean on.
| Hope in one hand, poop in the other, and see which one fills first. A philosophy of "kill all infidels and rape their wimmin" isn't a philosophy of hope, it's a philosophy of murder and rapine... |
"I think that people of faith understand that for many of the terrorists, their actions are acts of sacred piety to the point of losing their lives. And I think that people of faith understand that there is a heavy religious overtone to the opposition."
It's a Religion of Peace, right Marcy?
| There's also a heavy overtone of lunacy in the terror machine. Apparently there is in some corners of Congress, too... |
If the United States ousts Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and seizes the land, it would not resolve the underlying problems leading to political and social upheaval, she said. "Even if we take the ground, we do not share the culture," she said, "and in the end we have to learn to coexist in a world with religious states that we may not agree with and find ways to cooperate."
Kumbaya, Marcy, Kumbaya...
| Iraq isn't a religious state. It's a secular state. Sammy mumbles something about "Allah" when it suits his purposes, otherwise spends his time smoking cigars, drinking whisky, and diddling a bevy of mistresses — when he's not killing people in inventive manners... |
Miss Kaptur, a lifelong member of The Dumbass Club Toledoâs Little Flower Catholic Parish, said her political and moral views were influenced by her familyâs tradition of Roman Catholicism and service in the U.S. Marine Corps and Army infantry.
When were you in Marcy? Dims like bringing up their military backgrounds, even if they don't have one personally.
"Our tradition is to exhaust all reasonable means before one goes to war because our family, like so many others in our area, knows the price of war," she said. The standards of the "Just War Theory," developed by Saint Augustine in the 4th Century, are not clearly defined in the present U.S.-Iraq showdown, Miss Kaptur said. "I think thatâs why there is so much angst and division over this because weâre in the gray area here," she said. "People of religious tradition are making their voices be heard very loudly on this one. I think thereâs sort of an instinctual sense that something isnât right here, and while they know there is a problem they are not sure that war is the solution."
| "Us morally superior people know that war is not the answer — blabber is. If you talk long enough and witlessly enough, eventually you'll either bore your opponent to death or he'll laugh himself to death. Not that we have any opponents, mind you..." |
The Catholic tradition calls for embracing the poor and the dispossessed, Miss Kaptur said. Rather than initiating military action, the United States should try to counter the poverty and repression that breed terrorism in the Mideast.
| Good idea. Let's try and counter the poverty and repression that breed terrorism in Iraq by killing Sammy. He's been repressing his people for 30 years. They used to be fairly well off, because of the oil in their country, until he started spending all the dough on armaments and trying to steal Kuwait... |
"I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day," she said. "The reason I think this is such an important moment in history is because the United States cannot become the target of the anguish of the dispossessed in the most undemocratic region of the world."
Maybe we're going over to do something about that, Marcy?
Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-06 |
