GOP House Minority Whip To Aid Group Seeking Nuclear War, Holocaust

[donsu]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48672/


Bruce Wilson: "Christians United For Israel" leader gets promise of red carpet visit in DC from Roy Blunt.


US House minority whip Roy Blunt flew to San Antonio, last week, to pay tribute to Texas Pastor and apocalyptic nuclear war advocate John Hagee. In a "Christians United For Israel" mailing sent February 26th, Hagee wrote:

I am delighted to announce that Roy Blunt is a strong supporter of Israel and following our conversation about CUFI has offered to gather groups of Congressmen in his office any time I come to Washington D.C. in the future.

Blunt is not the only politician to have courted Hagee, who had a private meeting with Senator John McCain in late January to discuss Israel and "other matters." McCain has recently said, of US tensions with Iran, that the situation could be "armageddon"

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On July 19, 2006, at a CUFI sponsored Washington DC event called "A Night to Honor Israel," with GOP Party head Ken Mehlman and US GOP Senators Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum, John Cornyn, and Kay Bailey-Hutchinson ( President George W. Bush sent recorded greetings to the event ) , Pastor John Hagee declared:

"The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation <...> and Second Coming of Christ."

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This is a continuation of a running series on Pastor John Hagee and his new "apocalypse lobby," CUFI. For the last installment, see:

What Secret "Other Matters" Did McCain Discuss With "Apocalypse Now" Hagee ?
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the religiously insane are dangerous

politicians who court them are just as dangerous

[BonnieJW]

1. Great

That won't cause any antisemitism at all. Wait for it.

[ck4829]

2. When I was a kid, I remember hearing THIS would cause the Tribulation

"Russia and IRAQ would launch a war against Israel, and thus the Tribulation starts"

Now it's "Israel must launch a war against Iraq to get the Tribulation going"?