Dear Doves,

Over the years I have submitted various articles for your discernment  and read all your posts. Thanks to this site, I have considered much, learned much and have become a stronger Christian in the process. I have disagreed with some of your thoughts and applauded others. But, I always felt we shared a common bond in seeking the Truth of Our Lord, Jesus.

I watch the world and, especially in the last few weeks, I see a gathering storm about to engulf us. The black clouds of deception are upon us and, like the latest hurricane, they threaten to drench us on this site. Facts have become lies, lies are now nuanced and complex expressions of 'deep thinkers', and the world view that America is evil, that our government is evil, that our president is evil, is freely expressed by even those who see themselves as best equipped to recognize evil.

Can we take a step back to the basics? If our God-given mission is to proclaim the Good News to the ends of the earth, who is still doing the proclaiming in these last days? Is it the Europeans? The Asians? The UN? I submit that there is only one nation still capable of breaking down the doors of evil fortresses and freeing the captives into the light of Almighty Truth. I submit that, today - right now, there is only one world political leader who 'wears his religion on his sleeve' -a religion that is the Word of God. Surrounded by sharks, battered by waves of derision, this only self-proclaimed born-again Christian President in the world, in spite of being subject to human failings, fights to defend his homeland by offering freedom, no matter how fragile, to an evil-infested region. Freedom - the means by which the light of our God may enter and bring salvation. Is this not a cause to die for? Is this not "The Mission" while there is still time? Was Part I not accomplished when the dictator fled?

In the meantime, we - on this site - are concerned with dissecting conspiracy theories, wingless invisible planes, and hidden governmental agendas. We are missing the forest for the trees! We are opening our minds to delusion. We are in danger of mimicking the secularists who scrounge the Scriptures for out-of-context quotes and half-bakes 'truths'. We are unconsciously stifling the mission for which we were created. Scary - isn't it?

Blessings

Marie Komar

The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest

Vol: 36 Issue: 25 - Saturday, September 25, 2004

No Help For Iraq From UN
by Jack Kinsella

"Our struggle is your struggle, our victory will be your victory and if we
are defeated, then that will be your defeat," Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi told the UN General Assembly yesterday.

In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly's annual session Allawi urged
governments to put behind them the divisions over Washington's invasion of
Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein and later called "illegal" by U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

"Some countries objected to the war, and that is their right, but
difference over the issue shouldn't stop the aid now," he said.

Allawi attracted only a moderately-sized audience in the General
Assembly's chambers, where he barely mentioned the United States but had
great praise for the other nations who helped liberate the Iraqi people,
and especially for those that are now providing military, technical or
financial assistance to the reconstruction.

Allawi told the world's assembled leaders that his nation was facing "a
struggle between the Iraqi people and [their] vision for the future of
peace and democracy [on the one hand], and the terrorists and extremists
and the remnants of the Saddam regime who are targeting this noble dream
[on the other]."

Allawi told world leaders yesterday that Iraq's foreign debt remains "the
most serious obstacle" to reconstruction.    Repaying it, he said, is
beyond Baghdad's capabilities. "It is an unjust burden [accumulated from]
unjustified wars and the search of weapons of mass destruction."

He urged them to 'look forward, rather than continue to examine the
acrimonious buildup' to the 2003 war.  Allawi all but begged Kofi Annan in
a private meeting to send the UN mission back to Baghdad.

He even met briefly with Annan yesterday, but didn't even get promises of
an expanded U.N. mission, let alone any hope of a dedicated protection
force of U.N. personnel.

Assessment:

For the interim Prime Minister of Iraq to expect help from the UN is like
a mugging victim waiting for his mugger to call 9/11 for him.  The UN
spent the better part of twelve years actively working behind the scenes
to protect Iraq's mugger so they could continue to take their cut of the
loot.

While Saddam's forces murdered and pillaged across the country, in full
view of the United Nations, UN bureaucrats siphoned uncounted billions out
of Iraq's 'Oil for Food' accounts.  To keep Saddam from complaining about
the theft, they authorized pretty much anything Saddam wanted.

During the 12-year embargo, Saddam was able to order luxury cars,
telecommunications equipment, and even weapons, using money that was
ostensibly supposed to be used only to buy food and medicine for the
starving Iraqi civilians.

If there is any record of the United Nations denying any purchase requests
made by Saddam's government during the embargo, it hasn't surfaced in the
public domain that I've been able to find.

So it didn't come as much of a surprise that Allawi's reception at the
United Nations was about as friendly as that of a homeless wino crashing a
cocktail party.

Everybody was too polite to throw him out, so they did their best to
pretend he wasn't there.  Allawi's speech was scheduled on the fourth day
of speeches being offered during the UN's annual international boreathon.

By the time it was Allawi's turn, most of the UN diplomats, including the
French ambassador, had vacated the premises, leaving lower diplomats to
anchor their spots at the Assembly while they did something more important
than listen to the appeals from Iraq for help.

About the only real attention Allawi's visit got came from the White
House, and later from John Kerry.  The White House received Allawi as an
important ally. John Kerry immediately attacked Allawi's credibility,
scoffing at Allawi's promise to hold elections by January.

Kerry called Allawi's visit a political ploy to help the Bush
administration get reelected, and criticized Allawi's contention that
Iraq's government was making any genuine headway.

"The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best
face on the policy,"  Kerry told a  press conference he convened
immediately  after Prime Minister Allawi's speech. "But the fact is that
CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all
tell a different story."

Allawi fired back from the Rose Garden in a speech that was all but
ignored by the mainstream media, saying, "When political leaders sound the
siren of defeatism in the face of terrorism, it only encourages more
violence."

But more violence in Iraq is EXACTLY what the Kerry campaign is counting
on. Dismissing Allawi as an American 'puppet' is exactly the rhetoric the
terrorists in Iraq need to keep up their recruiting goals. But if defeat
in Iraq means defeat for George Bush in November, then so be it.

VP candidate John Edwards picked up where Kerry left off, saying Allawi
was merely parroting President Bush's 'lies.'

"The best lesson for any fledgling democracy is that leaders should tell
the truth, to always be straight with the people," Edwards said. "Prime
Minister Allawi's trip to the United States was filled with all the wrong
lessons, lessons from an administration that just can't seem to tell the
truth when it comes to Iraq."

Kerry spokesman and former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart said of
the man who is arguably America's most important ally, "The last thing you
want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost
see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips."

I say that Allawi is arguably America's most important ally because at the
moment, American soldiers are in combat, risking (and sometimes, losing)
their lives in what John Kerry and John Edwards are calling a lost cause.

It will only be a lost cause if Allawi fails and Iraq descends into civil
war. All Allawi has to work with is his credibility as a leader. Kerry and
Edwards know that, or they aren't qualified to hold the jobs they seek.
The worst POSSIBLE thing that could happen would be for Iraqis to view
Allawi as an American puppet -- it would be the kiss of death to his
government. And knowing that, they attacked Allawi's only real asset --
his credibility -- mercilessly and in public.

The war in Iraq is a real war, involving real people shedding real blood.
It isn't political theater, it is life and death, both for the Iraqis and
for the Americans trying to restore their country.

Last year, Kerry called America's coalition allies -- including England,
Australia and Poland, "some trumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed,
the coerced, the bought and the extorted."  In a speech in March, he
called them 'window dressing' -- on the same week Poland lost five of its
soldiers in combat.

At the same time, Kerry continues to criticize the White House for
alienating our friends and allies, something he promises to rectify if
elected.  (To this point, I've yet to be able to find out how he plans to
make up with the 'bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted' after
getting elected.)

If America loses in Iraq, then the war was for nothing.  Our troops shed
their blood for nothing.  America gave its sons and daughters for nothing.
Are these guys even Americans?

One would assume that the rest of the Democrats are ALSO Americans.  There
might even be a few Democrats in harm's way in Iraq right now. But to
listen to the Democrats now, one would also assume there is no hope in
Iraq and the best thing to do is to bring our troops home and let the
Iraqis sort things out themselves.

John Kerry asked the Congress in 1971,"How do you ask a man to be the last
one to die in a lost cause?" before riding his 'lost cause' theme all the
way into the United States Senate.  Thanks to his testimony, America's
Vietnam veterans have hung their heads in shame for the last thirty years.

But it got him elected to the Senate, and he's hoping the same tactics
will win him the White House.

The amazing thing about it is that there are millions of Americans who
don't seem to care, as long as it defeats George Bush.

"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."  (2nd Timothy 3:1-4)