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An Analogous Story of our time. Circa 2003-2004.
(Questionably subtitled: Does the incumbent thief of Baghdad
now take their oil?)

A powerful man is convinced in his mind that his estranged wife has a revolver. Reluctantly, he offers her a gun amnesty through the police. Impatient at her lack of response, he travels to her place and kills her. Searching her home he discovers all she had in fact was a bread-knife. A police officer arrives and knowing the man in question the officer feels somewhat intimidated, after all the man had defied him on more than one occasion. “Oh, you feel you had a good reason sir. That's alright then! If we don't make a fuss, time will surely heal the problem.” The man then sent his housekeeper to look after the traumatised children. Being of working age now, the housekeeper sent them out to work, but kept most of their earnings to pay for tidying up and to keep them alive yet impoverished.

“Apathy is the enemy of the soul,” seems an apt quote for our age. When will we snap out of our soul sapping state?
Despite the bellicose complaints of some miscreants, the way the Iraq war was perpetrated and its lessons must not be allowed to fade from our memories. It is unacceptable for them to get away with this. It is up to us to ensure the like does not happen again and that does not mean leaving it to rest and shutting up!

Finding it hard to understand Bush's Messianic Evangelism in relation to traditional Christian teachings?

Here are a couple of fictional analogised letters from the man himself to help you comprehend?!

Fellow Americans.
I don't understand soccer, but I do understand that it has an aggressive element that needs sorting out.
We Americans have the only true sport, baseball, for it is called 'The World Series'.
We must help out our sport lovers overseas by eliminating the hooligans in their game for surely they could spread into ours.
Our plan is to attack the reported Chelsea and West Ham hooligans from Tony's Land in their lair.
We will liquidate them with our superior baseball bats.
The football fans of Manchester, Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal of Tony's Land will rise up and help exterminate them. They will embrace us joyously.
Yours, Dubya.

2 weeks later.

My Fellow Americans.
I don't understand. We have destroyed and eliminated the trouble makers of Chelsea and West Ham. Their home stadia have been trashed. Now we are fighting to escape this strange land, where soccer was born.
The soccer loving fans from not just Manchester, Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal have turned on us, but also from places all over their grotty soccer loving land like Grimsby, Chester and Rushden.
Where the heck is Rushden?!
We can't get out though. We know soccer needs saving and the peace of the World Series is at stake, yet they taunt us with calls of 'baseball just ain't cricket!'
When will they realise we just want them to looooove baseball!
Yours, Dubya.

We will remember even as they try to make us forget and ignore what they have done.

The Chicken Analogy.
It is like a successful farmer with free range chickens running about his yard and the open hay barns. He looks to his house and decides the best for his chickens is to build a wooden hutch to protect them. He's sure they'll like that; they'll be warm, comfortable and safe.
He begins to build that hutch but, his mind is so focused on building it that he fails to see he is crushing all the eggs and the chicks, stomping around the yard as he builds it. Whilst he is tucked up safe at night and the hutch half built, the foxes come and feast on the disturbed birds.
Will there be any birds left when he finishes the hutch?
Will any birds left be so disturbed that they fail to lay, or will the hutch eventually house a family of foxes instead?!
That farmer may have had an admirable goal but, not enough thought was put into the reason why he initially wanted to do it. The hutch became the focus of attention, not the birds.