Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Now, I'm no friend of Saddam's, but Baghdad wasn't a bad looking city a few years ago. I've posted pictures here before from the 90s that included advertising billboards, single women walking freely, modern cars, Coke machines, and so on. These ones below are a little older pictures, but you get the idea. It's important for people to understand that when they hear about Falluja or wherever being bombed, that it's a city just like the one they may live in.

For comparison, you can take a look at this “after” picture and see for yourself how much the US aggression has “improved” Iraq, and how much better off the people must be now that they're ruled by the Bush Cartel rather than Hussein and his psychotic kids. Welcome to Baghdad 2004:

Big improvement, right? Maybe if you're lucky, Bush's policies can make your city look like this too.

I've heard a lot of noise about how we're risking Iraq becoming a religious extremist state like Iran. Oooh. Oh no. I've even made this noise myself here, but I didn't get it — run the numbers for yourself. Unfortunately the sad truth is that America has more religious extremism by the numbers than Iran or Iraq have — 44% of Americans currently identify themselves as Evangelical Born-Again Christians, attend church regularly, pray, and consider themselves devout. The vast majority believe that the rapture is coming ASAP, or to put it in clearer terms, we're talking about history's largest doomsday cult.

And guess what Southern Baptist who's publicly professed a belief that the second coming is upon us has his hands on the nukes? I saw a TV minister a few days ago telling his flock not to prepare for the future, because the prophecies of Reveletion will unfold before that. It sounds crazy, doesn't it? Well, tell that to the 100 million Americans who have pledged to die for it.