Tough love
"It's heart-warming to hear Tony Blair's concern for the plight of the Iraqi people and how the only possible way to help them is to bomb them with everything the Americans have."
Terry Jones tries to explain the BFEE's PNAC ("The Project For The New American Century") to Tony 'Piddles' Blair, at the Observer .
Hot, moist, squishy love
Howard 'the Hormone' Fineman embarrasses himself yet again in the new issue of Pulsating pResidential Man Meat Magazine Newsweek, with "Bush and God - A higher calling: It is his defining journey - from reveler to revelation. A biography of his faith, and how he wields it as he leads a nation on the brink of war."
WTF has Howard been smoking? Have his editors lost their minds?? Wielding? Leading?? Maybe I got it wrong, though. The article isn't all halos and genuflections: Smirky McStupid's so-called piety comes off as extremely shallow and politically expedient, not to mention conveniently not applicable at times (remember Karla Faye Tucker and "please don't kill me"? all those Texas executions? "a major-league asshole"? "I hit the trifecta"?).
Then there's this. I'm sorry, but it just isn't that easy:
'The president is known to welcome questions about faith that staffers sometimes have the nerve to share with him. But he's not the kind to initiate granular debates about theology. Would Iraq be a "just war" in Christian terms, as laid out by Augustine in the fourth century and amplified by Aquinas, Luther and others? Bush has satisfied himself that it would be - indeed, it seems he did so many months ago. But he didn't do it by combing through texts or presiding over a disputation. He decided that Saddam was evil, and everything flowed from that.'
Moral clarity. God help us. - link.
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