LewRockwell.com is a great site. A lot of very good writers contribute columns regularly. The theme is mostly libertarian. But they run the spectrum, from left-libertarian to right-libertarian, and even to right-wingers. Except for the right-wingers, who apologize for Bush and the Republicans at every turn, there is a strong undercurrent of disenchantment with Bush and the Republicans. Here’s another one ——-

I’ve excerpted below from a scathing description of President Bush’s trip to Rome to mourn the Pope. The writer essentially argues that Bush was not worthy to be in the same room as the Pope.

It’s interested reading, because of the critique of Bush’s behavior in light of the Ten Commandments, and also because of the comparison between the USA’s war against Iraq and the Soviet Union’s domination of Poland.

Autopsy of a Funeral by Lawrence M. Ludlow

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Out with the Ten Commandments, In with Regime Change

To make things worse, the president was the leader of a faux-religious pro-war gang that unilaterally had taken upon itself the mantle of an unrecognizably twisted version of Christianity. In so doing, it had violated six of the Ten Commandments in a very short time. In addition to substituting a nationalistic worship of the all-powerful state in place of the deity, they repeatedly took God’s name in vain with bumper stickers touting slogans such as “God bless America.” Furthermore, in their quest to overturn the warning, “Thou shalt not kill,” they laid waste to an entire nation and snuffed out the lives of over 100,000 Iraqi civilians – which have been trivialized as “collateral damage” by the American press. In addition, the war has cost the lives of 1,500-plus American soldiers who sought to honor their uniforms by taking part in a dishonorable mission at the behest of a representative of one of America’s least-respected professions: a politician. Of course, the pretext for launching this war was a hallmark case of bearing false witness, and the prospect of rich rewards in the form of cheap oil was a source of covetousness whose ultimate end would amount to confiscating the Iraqi oil fields, otherwise known as theft. Six, count ‘em six violated commandments.

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Poland after World War II; Iraq Today

But the list of papal-presidential ironies goes far beyond the U.S. decision to go to war against Iraq. In the aftermath of World War II, which the U.S. and its allies waged in response to Hitler’s war of aggression against Poland, the homeland of the pope was never freed. Instead, that overwhelmingly Catholic country was handed over to the Soviet Union – beginning a 45-year span of Soviet domination that was countenanced by the very allies that claimed to have sought Polish freedom by entering the war in the first place. Under the domination of Stalin, events in Poland took on a character that bears an eerie resemblance to what has been happening in Iraq. Here are a few highlights:

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