"God Bless America" has become "God Forgive America"

[indigobusiness]

We'd better clean house while we have a chance.



TIME magazine, JULY 4th issue: "Two other serious, surreptitious - and quite possibly unprecedented - battles are going on: the intelligence community is at war with the White House, and the uniformed military is at war with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon." (link below)

Let’s take a look at the first: Intelligence Community vs White House. It starts with pResident Bush’s State of the Union address. Bush cited an intelligence report from the CIA, investigating claims that Iraq sought to purchase fissile material from the African state of Niger. The report concluded the allegations were NOT true. The evidence was found to be bogus – signatures on the Nigerian documents were from officials who hadn’t yet been in office at the time of signing. Despite the claims of the CIA, Bush painted a very different picture.

Former Ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson, was the man sent to Niger to investigate these claims. Months after Bush’s speech, Wilson wrote in the NY Times, "I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

A week later, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reported that part of the reason Wilson had been given the Niger mission was that his wife, Valerie Plame (CIA secret operative), recommended him. This report blew Plame’s cover, a very serious crime. Novak cited the White House as the source of the leak, but kept the specifics confidential.

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[Az]

1. Not waiting around for some entity to bless or forgive us

We have work to do with our own hands. We have to take responsibility for our nations actions and their consequences.

[indigobusiness]

3. Of course not, but the entire paradigm has shifted.

I've always advocating doing the work "with our own hands", but has been relentlessly frustrating with the reins of power in the hands of the corrupt. We have a chance to right the ship. It's up to us to do it...and do it well.

[Az]

7. True enough

I am seeing more active contrition concerning that path we took. People are losing their affection for the boy emperor.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. My Dad uses to say

"A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando."

[indigobusiness]

11. My Espanol is a little rusty...

...will you help me?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. "Pleading to God and hitting with the hammer" (nt)

[indigobusiness]

13. thanks

I butcherd it, badly.

[Dangerman]

2. Oh boy...

God bless George W.'s rendition of America, and may God have mercy on all of our souls...

[Forkboy]

4. Both are silly

there is no God to bless or forgive us.

[indigobusiness]

5. This is about the mood of the country

not religious, or lack of it, bigotry.

[Forkboy]

6. oh,excuse me for sharing an opinion on an opinion board

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