Quote from bigdavediode:
The guy who shot up a Unitarian Church was a Republican who wrote two pages on how he wanted to kill "liberals."
Timothy McVeigh, who was a registered Republican and a member of the NRA, decided to blow up a federal building.
George Bush, with the support of the Republican party, declared war on a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, killing hundreds of thousands, creating four million refugees in defense of the "flypaper theory" that it would attract the worst of the worst to another country and put its civilians in the middle.
However, these are just a small fraction of Christian fundamentalists, just as the Muslim extremists are just a small fraction of Muslim fundamentalists.
So no, I don't see any difference.
McVeigh was a nominal Christian-not a church goer-who was motivated by his hatred of America for our participation in the Gulf War.
Bush and the war huh? How many Democrats have you voted for President who supported the Iraq war?
Let's look at comments by the guy you ardently supported in 2004, Sen. John Kerry:
July 29, 2002 - Kerry endorses the Bush plan in Iraq, stating,â I agree completely with this Administration's goal of a regime change in Iraq ... Saddam Hussein is a renegade and outlaw who turned his back on the tough conditions of his surrender put in place by the United Nations in 1991." (Sen. John Kerry, Speech To The 2002 DLC National Conversation, New York, NY, 7/29/02)
March 19, 2003 â Kerry continues his support of the war: âI think Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction are a threat, and that's why I voted to hold him accountable and to make certain that we disarm him.â (âAll Things Consideredâ, 3/19/03)
Sept. 14, 2003 â Kerry asserts, "I don't think any United States senator is going to abandon our troops and recklessly leave Iraq to whatever follows as a result of simply cutting and running. That's irresponsible." (CBS's Face the Nation, 9/14/03)
Oct. 17, 2003 - Kerry votes against Senate Passage Of Iraq/Afghanistan Reconstruction Package - $87 Billion Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan Security. (S. 1689, CQ Vote #400: Passed 87-12: R 50-0; D 37-11; I 0-1, 10/17/03, Kerry Voted Nay)
March 16, 2004 - Kerry responds to criticism regarind his Oct. 2003 vote: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." [appearance at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia]
Aug. 9, 2004 - Answering a direct question from President Bush on whether he would still have cast his vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq "even knowing what we now know", John Kerry replied, "I would have voted for the authority... I believe it was the right authority for the President to have." (Sen. John Kerry, remarks in Arizona, 8/9/04)
Sept. 6, 2004 - Kerry calls the Iraq War "Wrong War In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time." "Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Monday called the invasion of Iraq âthe wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time' and said his goal was to withdraw U.S. troops in a first White House term." (Patricia Wilson, "Kerry On Iraq: âWrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time'," Reuters, 9/6/04)
Sept. 21, 2004 Kerry says, "I have one position on Iraq."
"You know education," he said, "if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Perhaps though it Was John Edwards who was the person on the ticket who got you hard. He does that to people.
"My position is very clear: The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. I'm a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Resolution that's presently under consideration in the Senate. Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave threat to America and our allies. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons today, that he's used them in the past, and that he's doing everything he can to build more. Every day he gets closer to his long-term goal of nuclear capability.
Democracy will not spring up by itself overnight in a multi-ethnic, complicated society that's suffered under one repressive regime after another for generations. The Iraqi people deserve and need our help to rebuild their lives and to create a prosperous, thriving, open society. All Iraqis, including Sunnis, Shia and Kurds, deserve to be represented. This is not just a moral imperative. It's a security imperative. It is in America's national interest to help build an Iraq at peace with itself and its neighbors, because a democratic, tolerant and accountable Iraq will be a peaceful regional partner, and such an Iraq could serve as a model for the entire Arab world."
Senator John Edwards (Democrat, North Carolina)
Speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
October 7, 2002
