Hagee's Lesson Plan for Bush's Appeasement Speech
For the past two years, John Hagee, the televangelist and head of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has been laying out the lesson plan for Bush's speech in the Knesset this week, in which he accused Barack Obama of appeasing terrorists like Neville Chamberlain appeased the Nazis. Since Hagee founded CUFI in early 2006, he has been beating the drums for war with Iran, and rejecting diplomacy as Chamberlain-esque appeasement.
Hagee, who endorsed Bush in 2000 with a book, God's Candidate for America, said in 2003 said that "God raised up George Bush for this time in history to crush Saddam Hussein." After he met with McCain in early 2007, Hagee declared McCain's views on Israel "on target." In other words, McCain's no weak-kneed appeaser of terrorists. If God raised up Bush, and, as Hagee has maintained, the threat from Iraq was nothing compared to the threat from Iran, then his endorsement of McCain suggests that he views the Republican nominee, once again, as God's puppet for his deranged obsession with a bloody, war-ending war.
Since the 2006 publication of his incendiary, conspiracy and fear-mongering book, Jerusalem Countdown, Hagee has been comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to Hitler and accusing those favoring diplomacy of appeasing him. Ahmadinejad is not just like Hitler, though, he's like Haman, and he's like Pharaoh, too, and all those biblical stories prove, in Hagee's mind, that confronting him is essential for the survival of the Jews -- nothing short of a military strike will do. His reference to "God raising up" Bush for "this time in history" is a direct reference to Queen Esther's confrontation of Haman. And when Joe Lieberman compared Hagee to Moses last year, he no doubt was validating the Pharaoh comparison. But was he imagining Hagee leading the Jews to the promised land of a boiling lake of brimstone?
Hagee claims in Jerusalem Countdown that an Israeli government insider came to him in April 2005 with "warning to the world" that the President of Iran "will prove to be the new Hitler of the Middle East." This information compelled him, he says, to write the book and launch CUFI. His standard talking point since CUFI's launch has been "It's 1938, and Iran is Germany, and Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler of the Middle East."
In the summer of 2006, when war raged between Israel and Hezbollah, and McCain took to the airwaves to suggest we had entered into World War III, one of Hagee's friends in the Knesset, Benny Elon, said McCain got that idea straight from Hagee.
In his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March 2007, and again to CUFI in July that year, Hagee said:
As you know, Iran poses a threat to the State of Israel that promises nothing less than a nuclear holocaust. I have been saying on national television, in churches and auditoriums across America it is 1938; Iran is Germany and Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler... In the Bible when Pharaoh threatened the Jewish people of Egypt he became fish food in the Red Sea. When Haman threatened the Jews in Persia in modern-day Iran he and his sons hung from the gallows that he built for the Jews.
But the appeasers, Hagee goes on, don't just want to appease Iran:
Beyond that threat from Iran there's another more subtle threat that concerns me. I am concerned that in the coming months yet another attempt will be made to parcel out parts of Israel in a futile effort to appease Israel's enemies in the Middle East. I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel that is now the United Nations and sadly -- and sadly even our own State Department will try once again to turn Israel into crocodile food. Winston Churchill said and I quote an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope that it will eat him last -- end of quote. In 1938 Czechoslovakia -- Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland land was turned into crocodile food for Nazi Germany. The Nazi beast smelled the weakness in the appeasers, ate the food and marched and devoured most of Europe and systematically slaughtered 6,000,000 Jewish people. We are again hearing calls to appease the enemies of Israel.
McCain compared himself to Churchill -- although without, as Bush did, explicitly comparing his opponents to Chamberlain -- in a creepy March 2008 ad. For Hagee, he's right on target, and there's no secret about who's in his crosshairs.
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"Great Whore" and now "political brothel", does this guy have a sexual problem? Everything described in sexual tones. Even referring to God "raising up" President Bush.
Just wondering!
Don't they all? I just heard a turkey-necked fundamentalist preacher from a mega-church in the South got busted by the FBI in a sting operation where he had been communicating over the internets with what he thought was a 15 year old girl and when he arrived ("extra-large" condoms and video camera at the ready) he was arrested. "Lord, save me from your most devoted followers"!
It's important to point out that Hagee and the Christian Zionists, with their End of Times mandate intend for every Jew to be converted to Christianity or be murdered.
Since Jews don't believe in Jesus, they're exploiting the Evangelicals for financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel until the end of time.
Jewish and Christians Zionists are bed fellows in war.
yes and notice how difficult any resolution in Israel is, now that the Iraq situation has deteriorated like Humpty Dumpty. Previously, (2000) the possibilities of peace were close to the surface but now if you were to propose a perfectly acceptable plan for Israeli/Palestinian peace you would have to ask yourself: How good is this plan if we have a violent revolution next door in Iraq drawing hadjis from far and wide?
What a mess, huh? And look at the money flowing, in the trillions, with Hagee McCain Bush and Clinton all taking their creamy cuts off the top while this country deteriorates to third world status.
Oh my God, how right you are. I'm so glad people know about these BUSHWHACKERS and liars. At one point, I thought we would NEVER wake up to the real deal. When more people realize who's behind the curtains pulling all the strings, they they'll be able to see the real reasons how the players (Hagee, McCain, Bush, Clinton, Cheney, etc.) play the game. The whole GOP (damn near) is involved in this falsefication.
Well said! There was an interesting (but frightening) article in "The Nation" a while back about the World Bank. It detailed how they wait for a natural disaster or a calamity such as war or disease, then come in and offer money on the condition that the 3rd world country privatize its natural resources so neocons can come in and buy them for pennies. It was no accident that Wolfowitz was named to head that bunch of crooks.
Ms Posner please do something on JINSA. Peace
There's no doubt in my mind that Bush would attack Iran this summer if he could - but his own intelligence community has cut him off at the pass and has said that Iran is not now working on a nuclear weapon project. That leaves him with the only justification that Iran may be supporting Al Sadr - but that argument runs counter to his notion that the war in Iraq is going just fine as it is.
He just doesn't have a good excuse, except for one thing: Hillary Clinton and others, in a stunning display of poor judgement, voted to acknowledge the Iranian Quds as a terrorist organization.
If Bush attacks Iran on that basis, and he MIGHT, then we should round up every Democrat who voted for that idiotic Kyl-Lieberman bill and run them out of town on a rail.
Don't count that thought out completely. Bush has lost Clinton as one of his backups and he will either start war with Iran or stop this election process some way or another. He might even postpone the election and call for martial law. Be aware that it can happen.
It is not Bush who is pushing to invade Iran, it's worse - Cheney, from his super secret hiding places, through super secret whisper campaigns and spreading of fear and loathing and cooking of the books to drum up false claims about Iran's intentions and capabiliti
And it's Rev. Wright who's the "crazy"---the one who actually preaches love and reconciliation???
Reverend Wright, for all his many faults, at least isn't in charge of foreign policy for the Democratic party.
Thank you Sarah for all you do.
It's 60 years of Israel and just three years ago it was 60 years since the war in the Pacific concluded. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians (nor Hagee for that matter) study that particular piece of Armageddon too much, IMHO. The words of Douglas Macarthur on the deck of the Missouri at the time of the surrender of Japan are worth remembering and a pertinent reminder to contemporary religionists:
"Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always".
One nation under God would seem to have a pretty good vision and mission statement right there.
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Hagge is nothing more than a bigot with lots of cash. Democrats must not be afraid to speak out and crush these fear and war mongers with a crsuhing blow and put a Democrat back in the White House. If I were a Republican, I would hang my head in shame at how they have raped this country!
Mark 13:14 reads But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, STANDING where it ought not (let he that readth understand) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains.
For beleivers and non beleivers alike it is something worth reading: Do the math do the research!!!!
I don't normaly do this but here goes: Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise,and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Verse 15 reads: When ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, STAND in the holy place, then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Will the msm EVER expose these CRAZY bastards for what they are? WTH? They should be exposing the hell out of them 24/7 like they do any other crazy cult that surfaces. They are the rethug base for gawd's sake!
Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been trying.
I've seen Rachel on MSNBC being laughed at by the panel
members. Don't they realize how intelligent she is? She
speaks about this on her radio show a lot.
I've decided to not apologize to keep posting this story:
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Sorry I had to cut that off. It is sad to see human beings being done like that.
Good Post Though.
It would certainly nice to see this story get the kind of "traction" in the media that Reverend Wright did.
Hagee is not frightening: He is your ordinary pseudo-Christian wacko. What is truly horrifying is that his third-rate poachings from the Book of Revelation are given a ready ear by such loathesome men as McCain and Lieberman, not to mention our apocalyptic President himself.
Cheney, of course, believes none of it, but knows it's a useful way to manipulate the clueless bastards around him, as well as keeping the funds rolling in from these legions of hellish preachers.
john hagees' armageddonites over at CUFI believe that we must go to war with iran in order to expedite the second coming of christ and the "rapture" and all jews will have to accept jesus christ as their savior and messiah or endure: "THE MOTHER OF ALL HOLOCAUSTS
every american should watch these vids to get a grip on how dangerously twisted these cultist freaks are and and what torrid and shameful pandering is bestowed upon them by some of our worlds most powerful leaders and dignitaries: http://www
please take the time to inform yourselves . . . this is our path to victory in 2008. Spread the link and bring awareness to this sick, twisted, horrific anti-American fascist ideology and agenda.
We do not need these people controlling the most powerful position in the free world -- it would be to our certain peril as a free nation.
Attack Iran without Congressional approval = Impeachment
Will Congress give him the greenlight?
Pretty dubious.
The fascists need to rachet it up and up. Still won't get McCain elected. That's take some REALLY dirty stuff.
By the way, who planned and executed 911? This video has over 4.8 MILLION views. Have you seen it?
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Mark 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be ye not troubled: for such
things must needs be; but the end shall not come yet.
so the point is that radical christianity = radical islam? or ahmedneedsablowjob is a better person than hagee?
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