What must God think of us?

With apologies to Lee Greenwood.

If tomorrow all the things were gone I’d worked for all my life,
And I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I’d thank my lucky stars to be living here today,
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom…

Well- at least for white, upper-middle class, Christian men who were born citizens of the United States and have a Anglo sounding surname.

And I’m SAD to be an American…

when we treat our prisoners like animals and make them pose as if engaged in perverted acts.

And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave my rights to me…

but somebody, I don’t know if it’s the independent contractors in charge of the military prisons or Military Intelligence officers or some Pentagon brass or Bush administration officials or just the low-level personnel – but SOMEBODY has pretty well spat all over the honor of the veterans who’ve fought before them by doing these vile, heinous things. What were they thinking? Obviously they weren’t.

And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today…

And I can’t get past the fact that this administration lied to us to make us think that Saddam Hussein had something to do with September 11 when he didn’t and that the War on Iraq is the same thing as the War on Terror and it isn’t. I don’t think we needed to defend ourselves against Iraq. Will somebody please stand up next to me and defend America against the irresponsible, reckless policies of this inept President?

‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God bless the U.S.A.

But how could you blame Him for not blessing us when Americans can do such FOUL and BRUTAL things to other human beings? Is it any wonder that some of our young soldiers thought that this was funny when Pornography is a $10 billion-a-year industry in the United States? No wonder the Muslim world thinks that the supposedly “Christian” West is so decadent and self-indulgent, and perverse.

From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee,
across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea,

From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA,
Well, there…

0ught to be deep shame guilt in every American heart for this fiasco. I don’t care how horribly Saddam Hussein’s regime treated any of their victims- there’s no excuse for this, none. We are supposed to be the moral leaders in the world. But instead we are seen as selfish, spoiled, sexually sick, and totally insensitive.
What has happened to the Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points after WWI? What happened to the United States that was responsible for the recovery of whole continents and promoted Democracy, Dignity and Human Rights after WWII? The United States that helped to found and led the United Nations for decades? Who sent thousands of men and women to help underdeveloped countries through the Peace Corps?
First of all, we “preemptively” attacked a third world country without provocation- who’s done that in the history of the world? Napoleon? Hitler? Stalin? Not America--- And now, we treat our captives like this? How has this made us safer? Don’t you think Muslims will have even more rage and hatred for us?

and it’s time to stand and say:

Enough!

God FORGIVE the U.S.A.