Since the election, I've been feeling more and more clueless about the realities of American life. I've always known that living in a city, being single, not having a car and not attending a church took me out of the Midwestern mainstream.

    It is asserted that Iraq was not supporting terrorists. Really? Documentation indicates that Iraq was training non-Iraqis at Salman Pak in terrorist techniques, including assassination and suicide bombing. In addition to Iraqis, trainees including Palestinians, Yemenis, Saudis, Lebanese, Egyptians and Sudanese.

Mr. Spertzel, head of the biological-weapons section of Unscom from 1994-99, just returned from Iraq, where he has been a member of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG).

    "In other words, while Saddam was playing hide-and-seek with the U.N. over whether he had WMDs, his stealthy little spooks were focusing their efforts on weapons specifically designed for use by terrorists."
 
George Melloan summarizes as follows:
 
    "In short, the invasion of Iraq shut off a potential threat to America (and the West). Poisons were far more likely to be used than nuclear weapons because they can be secretly deployed. So wiping out a source in Iraq was a large achievement."

2Thes2..10 ... did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason GOD will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2Thes1..8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know GOD, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD and from the glory of His power.

Ps94..20 Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, have fellowship with You?

    In contrast, George W. Bush envisioned September 11 as real war -- a global struggle against Dark-Age extremism, striving for a modern nuclear caliphate that could blackmail the industrialized world and destroy Western liberal values. So Mr. Bush took terrorist killers at their word, convinced that such "evildoers," like a Hitler or Stalin, had no legitimate complaint against America.

    ...a resolute George W. Bush equates to their continued defeat. Their trepidation was shared by the 1980 hostage takers in Tehran, who relented in terror of an inaugurated Ronald Reagan warning them of the impending end to Carteresque appeasement.

    President Bush, however, has been forced by events to recognize and block this silent transfer of power. Two such events were, domestically, the decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court to install gay marriage and, internationally, the demand from the U.N., the European Union and others that the United States should accept the authority of an unaccountable International Criminal Court.

"... this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." Mat24:14