Bush Able To Destroy Christianity In Iraq
by James Glaser
December 4, 2007

The Reverend Canon Andrew White, the Anglican priest known as the "Vicar of Baghdad" told the CBS News program 60 Minutes that Christians in Iraq are worse off now than when Saddam Hussein was in charge of the country. "There's no comparison between Iraq now and [under Saddam], things are the most difficult they have ever been for Christians probably ever in history."

According to the Independent Catholic News (ICN), "Reverend White estimates that 90% of Iraq's Christians once thought to number a million, have either fled or have been murdered by Islamic extremists during the religious civil war."

The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to call the violence in Iraq a civil war, let alone a religious civil war, but the fighting in Iraq ever since America attacked that country has been one form of Islamic belief against another. Throughout all this, every Muslin sect has been attacking the Christians.

Reverend White told how most of the men in his parish are now gone. "They are mainly killed. Some are kidnapped. I regularly do funerals here, but it's not easy to get the bodies."

You can't tell me that George Bush and his people didn't know that Iraqi Christians would be slaughtered if Muslim Fundamentalists were put in charge of Iraq. As soon as the White House saw the constitution that the Iraqi government adopted with all the references to Muslim law, it should have been obvious.

For years now the Bush administration has been telling us that we are in a war with Muslims, and that our Christian God is on our side. Well, if they even thought that was true a little bit, they should have done something to protect Iraq's Christian population, but like so many things about this war, George Bush didn't plan for the murder of Christians, and guess what? They got murdered.




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