To the USMB idiot morons who refuse to learn any ******* thing about recent history:
How the Iraq War Became a War on Christians | The American Conservative
In March 2003, on the eve of war in Iraq, Pope John Paul II dispatched Cardinal Pio Laghi, a senior Vatican diplomat, to Washington to make a final plea to Bush not to invade. Laghi, chosen for his close ties to the Bush family, outlined “clearly and forcefully” the Vatican’s fears of what would follow an invasion: protracted war, significant casualties, violence between ethnic and religious groups, regional destabilization, “and a new gulf between Christianity and Islam.” The warning was not heeded.
Two weeks after the Bush-Laghi meeting, on March 19, 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced. Shortly after combat operations concluded on May 1, the real conflict began. Amid the chaos and sectarian violence that followed,
IraqÂ’s Christians suffered severe persecution. Neither the military nor the State Department took action to protect them.
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It's recent history stupid right wingers. How can you not know what just happened????
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In Iraq, ancient Christianity lies in ruins. But who cares? »
Perhaps the crowds would have been bigger if the West had been paying attention to the
desperate pleas for help from Chaldeans and Assyrians over the past decade.
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Are your faces smeared yet? Thanks Bush, Thanks Republicans. It was the Republicans in charge of both houses and the presidency.
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Bush Policies Promote Global Jihad
Bush is now working with the U.N. to create a Muslim state in Kosovo.
On July 25, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held a major hearing on religious persecution in Iraq that made your stomach turn. It effectively demonstrated that
American soldiers, many of them Christians, are giving their lives and limbs to prop up a Muslim government that encourages or tolerates religious persecution against Christians. Michael Cromartie, chairman of the group and an appointee of President Bush, said reports indicate that nearly half of IraqÂ’s Christians have already fled the country.
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How can these USMB right wingers be so ******* stupid. This is recent history. How can they not know the Bush administration stood by and watched what happened to Christians and did NOTHING?
And they call me a liar? Tell me to prove recent history? Where the **** have they been????
Somebody explain to me how this can be!
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'Obliterating' Iraq's Christians | OnFaith
In 2007, Pope Benedict directly told President Bush that in Iraq, “the society that was evolving would not tolerate the Christian religion.” Yet,
no American policy was directed to enable this ancient group survive the religious cleansing that the invasion unleashed.
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Still stupid?
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Christian Massacres: A Result of U.S. Foreign Policy
In the wake of the U.S. invasion and occupation — which in 2007 the Congressional Budget Office estimated would cost U.S. taxpayers about $2 trillion — Christianity in Iraq might very well be fully eradicated. Reliable estimates found that about 1.4 million Christians lived in Iraq before 2003. Today, that number is less than 500,000, with some experts claiming the true figure is actually around 200,000. In all, some two-thirds of the nation’s Christians have already fled or been killed.
After the United States invaded, however, everything changed. “The Assyrians have survived the coming of the Persians, the Arabs, and the Turks,” Chancy observed. “It remains to be seen if they will survive the coming of the Americans.” Unfortunately, as Chancy and countless other analysts warned, Christians did not fare well.
Businesses were seized, churches were bombed, women were raped, Sharia law was brutally enforced, and Christians, including women and children, were viciously slaughtered. Muslim extremists throughout the nation and Kurdish nationalists in northern areas — supposedly U.S. allies — all participated in the massacres and persecution.
A year after the U.S. invasion, ChancyÂ’s dire warnings had become reality.
“In fact, the current policies of the Bush administration are threatening to absolutely devastate ancient and pious Christian communities whose blood will be on all our heads,” he observed in late 2004, saying the American people had become accomplices in the slaughter and destruction of large segments of the world’s Christian population.
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GO ahead USMB idiot right wingers. Prove me wrong. I dare you. That was a REpublican War. They tricked the country into a war with a country they knew nothing about. And they remain as ignorant as possible. No wonder all their policies FAIL. Because that's all they know. The previous comments prove it.
