IRAQ, America’s Dirty Little Secret

We have the war. Yes, we are doing really good over there. I haven’t heard of many deaths of American soldiers lately. It’s like the war was there one day and then the next day, like the Angels from heaven came down and swooped it up and its gone.  It’s so easy being good when we don’t have to talk about that nasty ole oil war. The religious candidate like Huckabee or Romney don’t talk about it. The killing and all those dead bodies are some kind of blood sport to them afterall the Bible is about death and killings, isn’t it.  Two religious men without the blood of Christ to guide them or show them the way.  The Republicans who love religion but have shown that they use it only as a pawn in the games of politics.  The Methodist are buying and selling land in Dallas so that George Bush can built his library. The stigmata of the Iraq hangs and drips from our once beloved flag. As our boys and girls are sacrifice for a full tank of gas. The stigmata of blood that covers our dead soldiers will be like a sore on our souls.  We justify our actions from a book about a God who is in hiding.  Our frantic search through the papers of our Holy Book to find scriptures that will justify what we do.  We want a religious leader but not a spiritual one.  One who can guide us.  One who finds God not in a book but in his or her heart, that is where God lives. We don’t need a leader who hates the right groups of people and then say he is of God.   We have no leadership in any of the people on either side of the isle. When we let fear rule our lives, then even the word of God can not reach us. We sent our young to war out of fear.  We closed our ear and mind and heart and let fear reign supreme.  Will the death of a million, make us feel safe. It hasn’t and it won’t.  You don’t fight religious zealots by becoming a zealot. You use common sense. That is the only way you win is to be smarter than them not crazier than them. You can never win a war long term on someone elses land. How many times will be have to learn that lesson. We have become a land of followers. Why, because it feels better to let someone do your thinking.  The stigmata that has blooded our patriotism and turned it into some cheat political trick for politicians to use.  When we chose to invade another country and have war. When we chose death, we are not of God. All the Huckabees and all the Romneys and all the McCains in the world won’t make it right.  So as we hide from the war.  When we put our hand across our heart at a football game knowing that we are killing innocent people, that is the true stigmata of the Iraq war.  It will stain us all, it will make us different, we will not recognized who we will become. That is the real price of the War in Iraq. So we can hide from the war, but it will be the stigmata that will be with us throughout history. It will be our cross to carry.