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Every day I hope there is a God. Not necessarily a Christian God, but that there is one out there. I don’t need an afterlife, and I don’t need to continue forever, but I hope there is more to this world than simple, random, thoughtless chance. On reading things like this story about Bush’s ordering an illegal air war in Iraq 6 weeks prior to gaining the consent of Congress, much less the U.N., I hope there’s an afterlife which corresponds to your beliefs.

In such a case, Bush will burn in Hell when his time comes. I hope the souls of those he has ordered needlessly and illegally murdered cloud round his soul like a dark omen, warning away dogs and children. And it pains me to write that, because I don’t want to think that way of another human being. But looking at the utter disregard this man and his neo-con friends have for the dignity of other human beings, I come to the conclusion that 2008 cannot come fast enough to remove this cancer from the American politcal system.

You can call me a conspiracy-minded chap, but I see an unelected despot who shows no regard for the pain he inflicts in the lives of his own citizens or those abroad, but instead kow-twos to a never sated set of corporate and religious concerns whose ideologies are systemetically more related to fascism than to democracy (i.e.—imposition of a set of values and principles upon an unwilling populace).

It makes me sad my country has fallen so far. Hmm. Time to start taking those Chinese lessons, so I can serve when the new regime starts cashing in their markers on all our foreign debt. Hmmm. maybe Joseph Campbell was right: when Jesus preached the gospels, he meant that Heaven and Hell are states of mind and spirit on Earth. Guess which way I think this country’s soul is trending? Dark days ahead, baby. Dark days.