Vice President?
By: Ed Howes
Christians are quite aware they are commanded to “avoid the
appearance of evil.” The Vice President and President of the
United States of America tell us they are Christians and to rest
easy, they only appear to be dealing in evil. Is the Vice
President in reality, the United States President of Vice?
Recently Vice President Cheney responded to a question about the
awarding of no bid contracts to Halliburton. His response was
that he has nothing to do with the awarding of contracts and
would not know how to influence them. If I was Vice President
and wanted to help a friend win a contract, I would call the
friend and ask how I might help. My friend would know exactly
what to do. It doesn’t seem all that difficult to me.
To avoid the appearance of evil, Vice President Cheney should
have resigned the day Halliburton obtained its first no bid
contract for Iraq, or Afghanistan. On this day, the President
should have requested he step down, if they would avoid the
appearance of evil. Is it a coincidence these executives
frequently speak of evil? Are they mirroring? That is, are they
accusing others of faults they abhor in their selves?
On one segment of the 25 January edition of 60 Minutes, we learn
that a Halliburton subsidiary does business with terrorist
supporting states. Does this mean the War on Terror is a money
making fraud? Is that why the target of American justice was
switched from Al Qaeda to Iraq as early as November 2001? New
business for all our good buddies? It only appears that way.
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing, King George is on top of the
world. Either these men are not Christian or evil has no
appearance.
Today is the 26th of January, 2004. I have been listening to
primary campaign coverage on National Public Radio, waiting to
hear which candidate is going to make Vice President Cheney and
Halliburton a campaign issue. Will all the candidates tiptoe
around the issue till after the February primaries? Are American
corporations doing business in terrorist supporting states, a
non issue? Is all America going to pretend there is no evil in
high places? Ask me in another month.
A cold shiver runs down my spine as I consider there could be a
Capitol wide cover- up taking place, in which Senators John
Kerry, John Edwards and Joe Lieberman are taking part. If so, we
can expect none of them to raise the Halliburton - Cheney
scandal as a campaign issue.
What a coincidence Senator Kerry should also have a very good
interview segment on the same 60 Minutes program! Is it possible
no one on Kerry’s staff connected the Kerry interview with the
story of terror profits? We will all soon know.
Maybe none of the Democratic candidates care about the
appearance of evil either, and I am right about a Capitol wide
conspiracy to hide the truth. The truth that seems so obvious to
me; maybe evil only resigns under the threat of armed rebellion.
(Which would be labeled domestic terror, of course.) Fat chance
of that, huh?
Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com or do an author search here at Ezine Articles.