Fischer: US Failed to Make Iraq a Christian Nation, So Our Soldiers Died For Nothing

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Fischer: US Failed to Make Iraq a Christian Nation, So Our Soldiers Died For Nothing
Submitted by Kyle on August 19, 2010 - 8:43am


Just how anti-Muslim is the AFA's Bryan Fischer?

So anti-Muslim that he is now claiming that the entire Iraq war was an epic failure and complete waste of American time, money, and lives because we did not seek to convert the entire country to Christianity.

Fischer says that the only thing that kept Iraq functioning under Saddam Hussein was that "Christians to help him run the country Christians were the only decent, trustworthy, honest people he could find." When Hussein was toppled, it left Iraq in the hands of Muslims and "Islam simply doesn’t produce men with the kind of character and integrity needed to run a country."

Fischer says America has offended God by creating a new Islamic Republic in Iraq which, "without the stabilizing values and presence of the Prince of Peace," will ultimately collapse.

Therefore, all of our soldiers have died for nothing:

It grieves me to the bottom of my soul to think of the soldiers who bravely gave their last full measure of devotion in such a misbegotten cause. They served bravely and well; it was their leadership that let them down.

All this is due to President Bush’s naive short-sightedness about the true nature of Islam and what it does to the human spirit. I believe him to be an honest and decent man, but deceived and foolish when it came to Islam.

He genuinely seemed to believe that Islam is a religion of peace which had been hijacked by evil men. The truth is the other way round. Islam is a barbaric religion of violence and war. The only hijacking that’s been done is by those trying to fool people into thinking it’s something benign

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more, if you can stand the hate.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-us-failed-make-iraq-christian-nation-so-our-soldiers-died-nothing

[blindpig]

1. That is one shitload of ignorance. n/t

[niyad]

2. how do people that stupid continue to function in the world?

[malletgirl02]

3. Best case scenario

Even in the best case scenario, our invasion of Iraq would not have made Iraq a Christian nation.

[tanyev]

4. Huh. He was a big supporter in 2006:

To liberals on both coasts, Idaho is redneck country, famous only for its potato industry and its white supremacists (the now-defunct Aryan Nations group was based in the isolated north of the state until 2001). "Sexual relations with livestock are still commonplace," a columnist for the Nation magazine claimed recently. Idahoans would prefer to focus on their spirit of rugged independence, but the redneck label is fine with them, too. "Many people would say if it stops people coming here and ruining our tranquillity, they're welcome to go on thinking like that," said Bryan Fischer, a former pastor who now runs the staunchly rightwing Idaho Values Alliance.

If you oppose gay marriage, though, or especially if you support the war in Iraq, you will find many friends in Idaho. "A guy called me the other day and said he wanted to join our alliance. He made it clear he was new to the state," Mr Fischer said. "I asked where he was coming from, and he said California. I asked what prompted him to move to Idaho, and he said: "California."


Supporting the troops but opposing the war is not a popular option. "It's ludicrous!" Bryan Fischer said. "It's like you're saying you think our soldiers are over there doing something immoral, but you support them doing that? That makes absolutely no rational sense."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/03/usa.oliverburkeman

[Fleshdancer]

5. Wasn't that the ultimate goal of the PNAC?

If I had to guess, I would say Bryan Fischer isn't the only whack job who truly believes this.

[NC_Nurse]

6. Didn't we invade them? So how does that make theirs the religion of violence & war?