Columnist – John Sammon
Why is all this happening? Iraq? Hurricane Katrina and then Ike? Sarah Palin? And now the economy?

Why?

I think it’s simple. It’s God.

God doesn’t like America.

If the Republicans can invoke the name of God constantly in literally everything they do, God bless America. God bless our troops. This is a mission from God. God is with us. God is Right Wing. If the Republicans can talk about God like he’s (assuming he’s a male gender) our own personally owned piece of high-rent property instead of the God of all people, even those who reside in countries we label as “rogue states.”

If Republicans can do this, I have the right to invoke the name of God in a different way. I think God has had it with us and our arrogance. While some of our people starve and go without basic care, we have corporate lying, cheating, conniving, double-dealing no-good bastard fat pig executives riding around in limousines as the system collapses around them. You know. The kind of person who would steal $50 off his mother’s bureau while her back was turned.

God doesn’t like him. That him is us.

Why would God bless a man-made border whose origins were created by annihilating the native inhabitants (Indians) after conquering Mexico, and a political system (that once included slavery and then segregation) that often makes mistakes (Iraq), and then is too arrogant to admit the mistakes?

Does God endorse political systems?

Does God back everything we do despite the cost?

I think God is fed up with us. We launched a war based on Bush’s lies that there were weapons of mass destruction when there weren’t, and killed 500,000 Iraqis when it could and should have been handled in a different manner. We didn’t try hard enough to find a less costly solution.

God doesn’t like that. He doesn’t care about politics. But he does about lives lost. We were wrong. God knows it. We don’t, some of us, or won’t admit we’re capable of the same kind of hubris all people throughout history have exhibited. We just let this war drag on and on forever as lives continue to be lost without even an attempt to settle it somehow.

God doesn’t like it.

You see, it works like this. When you use God’s name to sanctify whatever agenda you’re trying to pushâ?¦..it makes it easy, all SO EASY!. You don’t have to demonstrate what you’re doing is right. After all, God’s for it (Nazi soldiers in World War Two had emblazoned on their belt buckles, GOTT MITT UNS, God is With US)..

I never hear any other country use God’s name as much, or in the endless variations that we do. Have you ever heard a Frenchman say, God bless France, or God bless the Eiffel Tower? Do you ever see a bumper sticker on a Peugeot (French car) that reads, God bless duck l’ orange? What about China? God bless my bowl of rice?

God bless our enslaving (Chinese) troops in Tibet?

God bless this new ballistic missile with Chinese writing on it?

If God isn’t upset with us, then why all this recent news? Bush stumbles from one disaster to the next. I guarantee you, when they go to build his Presidential Library to commemorate his presidency after his term is up, there will be a building accident and the roof will collapse.

It’s obvious. Somebody up there isn’t pleased with what we’ve done, with and to our country.

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.