The war is "immoral, illegal, irrational," said the Rev. Lowell Erdahl,bishop emeritus of the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Oh look, the man wrote a book....
Posted on 09/03/2005 7:42:31 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
Under an "Impeach Bush" banner on a wall of the Minnesota State Capitol, anti-war speakers tried Saturday to link the Iraq war to a slow response to Hurricane Katrina.
It was part of the "Bring Them Home Now" national bus tour initiated by Cindy Sheehan, the mother who camped near President Bush's Texas ranch to demand that he talk with her about the death of her soldier son.
Sheehan was in the South on another bus Saturday, but about 350 people showed up in St. Paul to hear out-of-state speakers, along with local legislators, candidates and clergy members decry the war and question the president's moral values in waging it.
Several speakers suggested victims of Hurricane Katrina would have been better off had National Guard forces, and the money used to send the troops to Iraq, been here to help them.
"People are dying in Louisiana and New Orleans right now" because Bush, a "warmonger," is intent on "looting" oil in Iraq, said state Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minneapolis.
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The war is "immoral, illegal, irrational," said the Rev. Lowell Erdahl, bishop emeritus of the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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However, Kathy Dunaway, of Forest Lake, one of the counter-protesters, disagreed. "How can you support an individual who is laying their life on the line for their country and the Iraqi people, and not support the cause?" she said.
The counterprotesters are part of a national effort by Operation Iraqi Hope, based in Austin, Texas, that seeks to dispute the message of the Sheehan supporters.
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BTW, the statement from the ELCA bishop disgusts me...although it does not surprise me.
That's okay, I link their a-- and their brains.
The war is "immoral, illegal, irrational," said the Rev. Lowell Erdahl,Oh look, the man wrote a book....
I was just being satirical when I posted this on another thread, but it looks like the shoe fits...
[[Is it a coincidence that hurricane Katrina just "happened" to hit the greatest concentration of oil refineries in the U.S. so that now Bush's buddies in the petroleum industry "have no choice" but to jack up the prices?! And is it also a coincidence when the same hurricane just "happens" to target a majority African-American city, killing mostly African-Americans?! NO MORE HURRICANES FOR OIL!!!]]]
Geeze.....a Democrat. Color me surprised. /sarc
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President BUSH, in his wisdom, is bringing Freedom to the oppressed peoples & cultures of the world as America's own best self-defense against future terrorist attacks here at home.
President BUSH, in his wisdom, is now bringing a new New Gulf to the distressed people of our South.
...No matter WHAT..!!!
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Looks like the lefty whackos had a strategy meeting and are taking their "talking points" straight from al-Qaeda.
Go ahead and hate America Cindy...you join a very long line of those who want to destroy our nation.
So.....if we're looting all this oil, why are they saying we're "running out"? Idiots don't realize they can't have it both ways.
Yes that's right folks, less than four years after he was elected, the failure of Bush to pass stupid "environment" laws, which even if you believe the enviro-nuts about Kyoto's effects would have lowered the earth's temperature by only a fraction of one percent in four years, caused a disastrous hurricane...which even most reputable scientists say are not caused by warming sea water. You just have to throw up your hands at the stupidity of the libs.
Next time it's a video--Viagra gone wild.
It's not fair. I thought us teachers would be blamed for Katrina. I've gotten used to being blamed for many of the problems in society.
Those people using the war to blame Bush for Katrina are just plain "dumb" as my first graders might say (actually in my class, the first graders have been trained by their parents that words like "stupid" and "shup up" are bad words). I have to watch what I say sometimes. One time these girls came with a flipchart used for making words. They thought it was bad because they could make the word fart on it. We do rhyming families and I've never done the --uck one because of you know what. However, I had to stop doing the --it one too when a little girl who didn't know what the word meant blurted out "sh--!" There was a pretty big gasp.
Cindy Sheehan’s handlers managed to connect her with Katrina. She’s back in the news – darn it.
I agree!
Thanks Joe.
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