despite the defeat of his Republican Party in the midterm elections last November as a result of public disenchantment with the war, United States President George W. Bush continues to enjoy the support of some 35 percent of the American adult population of 209 million.
That translates into 73 million adult Americans who are unwavering Bush supporters. Not by coincidence, that number is only slightly higher than the 70 million voters whom Christian Evangelicals, also known as Christian Fundamentalists, under the leadership of TV evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, have claimed as members.
In a Feb. 23, 2007 posting in www.alternet.org, Bruce Wilson wrote: “A few weeks ago, to little notice, Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee, founder of the new “Apocalypse Now!” national lobbying group Cufi [Christians United for Israel] met with presidential candidate and US Senator John McCain and, over breakfast, discussed Israel and ‘other matters.’
“Pastor Hagee declined to detail in the e-mail he sent out to members of the Cufi mailing list because “this newsflash goes to the ends of the earth and I don’t want to read it in the media tomorrow.’
“But at the July 19, 2006 Washington DC inaugural event for Cufi, after recorded greetings from George W. Bush, with four US Senators and the Israeli ambassador to the US in attendance, Pastor John Hagee stated:
“’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 the Second Coming of Christ.”
Someone told me that they thought Bush was sincere in his beliefs and not just using faux Christianity to dupe the Christians. Well if he was right we are in real trouble.
I remember years ago there was stuff about that towards Iraq. Even one site hinted at something like Iraq should be in constant turmoil so “Babylon doesn’t rise again”.
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