[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: Comment is free: Nice one, George

[Sarah Gonzales]

keep in mind folks, this *is* satirical	.....

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Nice one, George
Terry Jones

August 4, 2006 09:54 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/terry_jones/2006/08/ 
armageddonists_of_the_world_un.html

Those of us who have long been supporters of Armageddon have  
naturally been greatly cheered by way the president of the United  
States has been embracing our cause. Our desire to bring chaos, death  
and destruction to a greater swathe of humanity has, in the past,  
often been frustrated by peacemakers and do-gooders of all shades of  
the political spectrum.

For too long, our aspirations have been derided and criticised. In  
fact, to be blunt, for more than two millennia we have had to put up  
with opprobrium and vilification, but now all that will be a thing of  
the past, for in George Bush we have found an ally - indeed, we have  
found a leader. A man who is prepared to place himself at the head of  
the forces of destruction and misery, and who is unafraid of the  
opinion of the rest of the world.

George Bush has finally put Armageddon firmly on the political  
agenda, and it is likely to stay there for the foreseeable future.

This means that we Armageddonists need keep to the shadows no longer.  
Bush and his colleagues in the White House have given us credibility  
and respectability. They have made our goal their goal, and death,  
disease, war and famine are now the most likely fate for more people  
in the Middle East than we Armageddonists had ever dared to hope for.

What is also particularly gratifying - after this long wait - is that  
George could not have chosen a better spot on Earth for the "End of  
Things" to begin, nor a more appropriate agent than Israel to get the  
ball rolling.

After all "Armageddon" is a Hebrew word. It has come to signify "the  
end of times" or the arrival of catastrophic events, involving huge  
loss of life. In its origins, however, Har-Mageddon meant simply "the  
mountain of Megiddo" - Megiddo being a site in Israel close to the  
border with Lebanon.

It is certainly a place that has seen a lot of catastrophe in its  
time. Although there has not been a city at Megiddo for over 2,000  
years, there are, nevertheless the remains of more than 20 different  
cities on the site, dating from 3,000 BC. That's an awful lot of  
human death and destruction.

So it's the perfect place for George to unleash the horsemen of the  
Apocalypse, and, as Armageddonists, we applaud him. The current  
assault on Lebanese civilians is sure to swell the ranks of would-be  
terrorists beyond even our wildest dreams, spreading the violence and  
mayhem not only throughout the Middle East but into the homelands of  
America and Britain.

As for the country of Lebanon itself, we Armageddonists predict that,  
like Iraq, it will sink into a morass of sectarian violence that will  
fill morgues of the future that have not yet been built. But more  
than that, we Armegeddonists confidently look forward to chaos and  
havoc quickly getting out of hand and beyond the control of those who  
started the conflict. It's all part of the fun.

So Armageddonists of the world! Let us unite in praise of George  
Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Let us thank these men for  
bringing our dreams of violence and disorder to fruition.

Let us hope that whatever half-baked notions fill what passes for  
their minds, they will continue on this irreversible path to  
perdition from which the whole world recoils, but seems powerless to  
stop.