The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest

Vol: 32 Issue: 15 - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - Plain Text

Revisting Alice's Wonderland

by Jack Kinsella

The news from Iraq, as it is being presented in the major media, is all
bad.  Car bombings, firefights, mounting US casualties,  massacres and
torture of American civilians, the prison scandal and the beheading of
Nick Berg by al-Qaeda operative Abu Musad al Zarqawi.

The most recent atrocity occurred when an al-Qaeda jihadist drove a car
bomb into a line of Iraqis waiting to enlist in the new Iraqi Army.  At
least fifteen potential recruits were killed in the attack; scores more
were wounded.

The attack underscores both truths about Iraq in a single stroke.  The
first is that we continued to be engaged in a real, honest-to-Pete hot war
with the Iraqi jihadists under Zarqawi's command, while simultaneously
fighting Iraqi insurgent forces organized under the banner of Moqtada al
Sadr's militia.

The second truth was ignored by the press.  The attack took place at a
coalition-friendly Iraqi army recruiting station.  It was selected as a
target-rich environment.  But what MADE it a target-rich environment were
the hundreds of Iraqis waiting in line to enlist in the Army -- to fight
the insurgents alongside the coalition.

The news is bad to begin with; it really doesn't need any assistance from
the anti-administration propagandists, but they just can't help
themselves.  For example, when the Boston Globe ran out of authentic
photographs from Abu Ghraib Prison they used fakes that originated on a
porno Web site.

The Washington Post and New York Times are unable think of anything else
for their front pages.

Somebody should be devoting a little column space to the Anybody-But-Bush
side's principle ally in the War Against Bush, Abu Musad al Zarqawi.

The al-Qaeda leader who beheaded Nick Berg is also affiliated with two
Iraqi terrorist groups, the Tawhid and Jihad Group.  Zarqawi is also
linked to the Islamist terror organization Ansar al Islam, which has
stepped up operations in post-war Iraq. Many of the group's members had
fled to neighboring Iran and are returning to fight the coalition forces.

Zarqawi is believed to be  the field commander of most of the Islamist
terrorists in Iraq.
 
 

Assessment:

It was about thirty years ago that I read Hal's 'Late Great Planet Earth'
and discovered God's Plan for the end of the Church Age.  I had always
suspected that there really WAS a God, but it was my nature to hold off on
making a commitment until I had proved His existence beyond a reasonable
doubt.

Witnessing the unfolding of specific events foretold thousands of years in
advance was the evidence that convinced me.  I was fascinated by the
Bible's description of the Tribulation Period. Back in the 1970's, it
seemed impossible.

From the Bible's description, it seemed as if society would have to first
take a journey through Alice in Wonderland's Looking Glass.

The Bible describes a world in which everybody is spiritual and all
religions acceptable, but God is not invited.  A world operating under the
auspices of a global government, controlling both a global economy and a
global religious system.  Thirty years ago, not only did it appear
unlikely, it was technologically impossible. And even if it were possible,
Americans would never accept it.

The characteristics of the society pictured by the Bible in the last days
were foreshadowed by the hippie movement and the communal society of the
Haight-Ashbury District,  but back then, those values were antithetical to
the American Establishment.  Thirty years ago, people DIDN'T expect their
politicians to lie, and if they did, and got caught, they were harshly
dealt with.  That was then. This is now.

The world is currently embroiled in a religious war pitting the forces of
God against the forces of Allah. In the aftermath of every war, mechanisms
are developed to prevent future conflicts arising from the same cause.

Both League of Nations and the United Nations came into being as an effort
to prevent a future world war. History tends to repeat itself.  One thing
certain to come out of this war is a kindler, gentler, more inclusive, --
and global -- religious system in an effort to prevent future
fundamentalist religious wars.

We live in that Looking Glass world now.  The war in Iraq is a perfect
example.  It began as a global popularity contest between the murderous
regime of Saddam Hussein and the President of the United States.  When the
votes were tallied at the UN. . . the winner was Saddam Hussein? Does that
make sense?

The March Hare announced the UN was opposed to removing Saddam Hussein on
the grounds twelve years and 17 resolutions authorizing military force
were insufficient justification for USING military force.

al Zarqawi is the most dangerous terrorist in Iraq.  He sawed Nick Berg's
head off as Berg lie screaming on the floor.  He is credited with being
the number one al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, and was the mastermind of an
aborted chemical weapons attack in Jordan that authorities there say would
have killed tens of thousands of innocents.

But he is a footnote in most news broadcasts. The White Rabbit anchoring
the news desk assigns primary responsibility for al-Zarqawi's actions to
Donald Rumsfeld or George Bush.  Why is that?

If the mainstream press put the spotlight on al-Zarqawi, it would steal
the thunder from the antiwarriors who continue to claim the war in Iraq
was unjustified.  There is no point in highlighting al-Zarqawi's ties to
al-Qaeda, since directly tying al-Qaeda to Iraq nullifies the charge that
George Bush trumped up justification for invading Iraq.

Instead of blaming al-Qaeda, or even al-Zarqawi, the blame gets shifted to
the White House.   Since this is war, and not some game, it amounts to
giving aid and comfort to America's enemy in time of war -- and about half
the country, and almost the entire rest of the world --  is ok with that?

US society has stepped through the looking-glass. The Queen of Hearts is
running for president and doesn't care whose head gets chopped off in the
process.

The Cheshire Cat smiles from his perch in Iraq as the partisan politicians
help divide America while the mainstream press vies with al-Jazeera to see
who can make the US look worse.  In the meantime, every attack he plans
against the US gets blamed on his enemies, George Bush and Donald
Rumsfeld.

Last month,  the 9/11 Commission slammed the Bush administration for not
being vigorous enough in its intelligence-gathering efforts, this week,
the Bush administration is being slammed for being TOO vigorous in its
intelligence-gathering efforts.

Up is down, black is white, our enemies are less responsible for our
casualties than our leaders are, and decapitating an American is a less
heinous offense than humiliating a captured Iraqi terrorist.

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men
shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers
of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof . . ." (2nd Timothy 3:1-5)

"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." (Matthew 10:36)