Moyers Journal: Lieberman compares John Hagee to Moses..."leader of mighty multitude"

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Moyers Journal: Lieberman compares John Hagee to Moses..."leader of mighty multitude"

Edited on Sat Oct-06-07 12:56 PM by madfloridian

If you were able to watch Bill Moyers Journal last night all the way through, you would have glimpsed the Democrats' very own Joe Lieberman playing a prominent role with this group.

Of describing Pastor Hagee in the words that the Torah uses to describe Moses, he is an "Ish Elokim," a man of God and those words really do fit him; and, I'd add something else, like Moses he's become the leader of a mighty multitude, even greater than the multitude that Moses led from Egypt to the promised land.

If you missed it, here is the bottom line. CUFI wants the United States to attack Iran. They make no secret about it. They are quite open about it. Lieberman was one of the speakers to that group.

Transcript from Bill Moyers' Journal October 5th.

JOHN HAGEE: Iran is a clear and present danger to the survival of Israel. To the United States of America and the western the world-- western world. Therefore it is time for America to embrace the words of Senator Joseph Lieberman and consider a military preemptive strike against Iran to prevent a nuclear holocaust in Israel and a nuclear attack in America.

BILL MOYERS: On that, participants at the CUFI summit seem to agree: the times call for urgent action - even military action. Some of them believe war - and rumors of war - are part of God's plan.

It was indeed a scary show. First my hubby said to turn the station, that the week had been stressful enough. I said no, I want to watch it. He became fascinated, but disgusted.

I don't even feel comfortable with putting some of the transcript here. Here is the video from the show.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/watch2.html

Then I happened on this article about John Hagee heading to Canada. Apparently this movement is well-organized there as well.

Canada and the theo-cons

Outside the low-rise office building that houses Canada Christian College, security was tight. Yellow police tape blocked the driveway, and plainclothes rcmp officers eyed the crowd for threats to two visitors inside: Canada�s ambassador to Israel, Alan Baker, and Major General Aharon Zeevi Farkash, chief of Israel�s military intelligence. Still, neither was the night�s main draw. Taking their seats on the stage of the college�s ground-floor auditorium, they were mere warm-up acts for the undisputed star of the show: Reverend John Hagee, the Texas televangelist who packs eighteen thousand born-again Christians into his Cornerstone Church in San Antonio every Sunday and whose fire-and-brimstone broadcasts reach an estimated ninety-three million homes around the globe.

It is a chilling article from Canada. You need to read all of it.

Hagee is one of the leaders who meets with Bush to discuss radical Islam.

Bush is using religious right leaders to push the danger of Islam, Iran.

"I was invited to go to Washington, D.C., and meet with President Bush in the White House, along with 12 or 13 other leaders of the pro-family movement, and the topic of the discussion that day was Iraq, Iran and international terrorism," Dobson said. "We were together for 90 minutes, and it was very enlightening and in some ways very disturbing, too. In a roundabout way, that led to today."

Dobson described the president as "upbeat" and not beaten down by political battles, as well as "determined and convinced that his mission is to protect this great nation from those who have threatened us, and to let history be his judge for the way he has dealt with the crisis in the Middle East."

The president calls the leaders of the religious right, and they spread the word about the dangers of Islam. Not a good foreign policy.