[amc] Fw: Of God and War
- From: "Ray Gingerich" <RGingerich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:50:50 -0500
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From: "Werner J. Severin" <wseverin1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ray Gingerich" <RGingerich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: Of God and War
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/opinion/30schlesinger_.html?oref=login&pag
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> September 30, 2004 The New York Times
> WHAT TO ASK GEORGE BUSH
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> Of God and War
> By ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER Jr.
>
> Do you really believe that there are fewer terrorists plotting against
> America today than there were before you began the invasion of Iraq?
> *
> Your version of Christianity supports and blesses preventive war. What
> relation is this to the Christianity preached by the pope and by
mainstream
> Protestants who oppose preventive war?
> *
> Since you obviously did not anticipate the troubles in Iraq, what do you
> plan to do to the incompetent advisers who misled you and are responsible
> for the deaths of more than 1,000 American G.I.'s and 20,000 Iraqi
> civilians? Or do you not see an accountability problem? President John F.
> Kennedy fired the people who led him into the Bay of Pigs. Why do you not
> do likewise?
>
>
> Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who has won Pulitzer Prizes forhistory and
> biography,is the author, most recently, of "War and the American
> Presidency.''
>
> Werner J. Severin
> 3108 Silverleaf Drive
> Austin, Tx. 78757-1611
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> (512) 452-5080
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