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There once was a schoolyard bully named George who only picked on those who he knew he could beat up. He never attacked those who could fight back because he was a coward and did not want to get beat up himself.

One day he noticed young Muhammad playing with his marbles and he wanted those marbles. He knew that Muhammad was much weaker than himself, so he beat up the much younger child and took his marbles. When Muhammad complained to the teacher, George lied. He told her that the marbles were his and that Muhammad attacked him first and that he was only defending himself. The teacher believed him and there was nothing that Muhammad could do.

Nor could Muhammad’s mother do anything because she did not have any influence at the school. But not wanting his injuries from the fight to lead to further infection she brought her child to the doctor’s office. It was a good thing that she did so because while the doctor was examining Muhammad, he discovered that the child needed eyeglasses. Muhammad got eyeglasses and then his vision and his whole life was greatly improved.

There are many conservative individuals who are giving President George W. Bush credit for having great foresight and bringing Democracy to the Mid-East. But this is much like giving the schoolyard bully credit for the improvements to Muhammad’s life after the young child got his eyeglasses.

If any one can be given credit for Muhammad having gotten eyeglasses and a greatly improved life it must be his mother. Similarly, if anyone is due credit for bringing Democracy into Iraq and the Mid-East it is the women of the Mid-East, particularly the women of Iraq, who have endured decades of oppression at the hands of fanatical religious conservatives. President Bush can only be given credit for starting a war based upon lies and greed.

The goal of President Bush was to get Iraqi oil and he lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to get what he wanted. Did he pick on North Korea? No! Because North Korea has the ability to fight back.

The only thing that Bush can be given credit for is starting a deceitful war and causing the death and maiming of thousands of innocent Muslim, Jewish and Christian children of God.

It is interesting to note that George Bush tried the exact same tactic in Iraq that Nixon tried in Cuba in 1959. They both believed that the people would unite and rise up against a tyrannical dictator when they invaded the country. But in both cases their tactics failed.

In my trilogy Alpha Omega, I mention the attacks against New York and Washington D.C. by terrorists on 09/11/01 only briefly. The main reason for this is that my trilogy was essentially finished by the time of the attacks. In fact, I had actually finished it in the early 1990s. Since that time, I have only done a few paragraph rewrites, adding or deleting a sentence or two here or there where such was needed.

But the main reason why I did not mention 9/11 is because St. John did not see this event and did not prophesy about it; it is not in the book of Revelations.

During the summer of 2003 I briefly thought that St. John might have seen the attacks and prophesied about them. I thought this because he described the destruction of New York and Washington D.C. as being accomplished in one hour (Rev.18:10, 17).

I believed this because the World Trade Center (WTC) took about one hour to collapse after being struck by the airplanes. Also, because the whole world was stupefied and effected financially by this collapse, the news media described the collapse of the WTC as ground zero and the sky was blackened from the smoke.

Although St. John saw events similar to this, (Rev.18:8-11) he also saw that the United States (Babylon) was completely destroyed at this time (Rev.18:2, 21). But since the attacks of 9/11 by terrorists did not completely destroy Babylon, (the destruction of the WTC only injured Babylon) then the terrible events of that day cannot be what St. John saw in his vision.

(In 2003, I had a dream in which I saw a flock of doves fly off the top of the WTC and into heaven just as the planes hit the buildings. I believe that those children of God who died in the attack and those who died trying to save those who were trapped therein became instant martyrs.)

However, it is my belief that 9/11 was a prelude to the Nuclear War. Just as Adolf Hitler was a prelude to the great anti-Christ, John Lennon. It is my belief that God allowed the terrorists to commit their terrible deed because He wants to give mankind a warning of what can happen if they choose war instead of peace to settle their disputes.

It is also my belief that the war in Iraq (started by President George W. Bush with his lies about the supposed existence of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein’s alleged connection with the attacks of 9/11) could very easily be the initiation of that war.

Further, since President Bush used those lies and false premises – that the United States could easily defeat Iraq and democratize Iraq without destroying our own economy and that U.S. soldiers would be greeted as liberators by the citizens of Iraq – as his foundation for going to war, that would make the war in Iraq a deceitful war.

I say “could be the initiation,” because I do not know what event will trigger the terrible Nuclear War. (Nor do I know when it will begin.) I do know that the United States will do something that will initiate it, but exactly what I do not know. But the reason that I believe that the war in Iraq is the initiation of the Nuclear War is because I look upon it as a warning to all mankind.

If I may quote Leonard Pitts, columnist for the Miami Herald (09/18/04) “What Bush did was to invade a nation with no known connection to the terrorist attacks . . . he only inflamed Islamic radicals, confirming their most paranoid fantasies about our evil intent, thereby increasing rather than decreasing the likelihood of a terrorist attack.”

Further, it appears that President Bush is ignoring these extremists in his desire to get at the oil reserves in Iraq. He doesn’t seem “all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves,” to again quote Mr. Pitts, 03/19/04.

However, to ignore the Islamic radicals who masterminded the attacks of 9/11 is totally ludicrous. They are “long-term planers” and could easily devise another attack which could make their first one look like child’s play. This would then lead to further action by the United States. The end result could be that the Nuclear War “may become tragically clear some awful morning yet to come.”

Thus, because of the actions of President Bush, I believe that the war in Iraq is the initiation of the Nuclear War and thus, the United States will shoulder the guilt of those Christian, Jewish and Islamic children of God who die in that war.