The organization which has orchestrated this take-over of the american presidency is popularly known as ‘The Fellowship’. This organization was set up in 1935. It started out as the Prayer Breakfast Movement which then became the National Committee for Christian Leadership (NCCL). This was renamed the International Christian Leadership (ICL). As madsen states, "The popular name of the International Christian Leadership is The Fellowship." But then again, "The Fellowship, also known as the International Foundation." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). Quite what relationship the International Christian Leadership has to the International Council for Christian Leadership (ICCL) is not known. Madsen states, "the National Prayer Breakfast .. changed its name from "presidential" to "national" in 1970." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

The two main founders of the ‘fellowship’ were abraham vereide, a norwegian immigrant and methodist minister, and frank buchman, the leader of the moral rearmament movement, who also helped to set up "the psychologically abusive Alcoholics Anonymous which enticed many converts from booze to Jesus." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005) and an organization called First Century Christian Fellowship.

In more recent times, one of its leaders has been douglas coe, a former "Oregonian Christian youth worker" who, "continued to expand his influence in Congress through the National Prayer Breakfast …" (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). Another leading figure is charles colson. "Colson served time in jail as a result of his involvement in the Watergate scandal. He would later re-emerge "born again" and serve as a covert adviser to the very same elements who would propel George W. Bush into office as President." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). "Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries, an adjunct of the Fellowship. Vance, an evangelical Methodist, ministered to inmates in solitary confinement in Texas prisons. Later, Vance would team up with Colson in a variety of prison ministry projects in the United States and Brazil. Governor Ann Richards appointed Vance to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, the entity that oversees the state’s Correction’s Department. Vance convinced newly-inaugurated Governor George W. Bush to establish faith-based prisons in Texas, a move that was endorsed by Colson. Bush also permitted ministers to act as detoxification counselors without professional training and certification. In addition, churches were allowed to operate day care centers without state accreditation. Vance became one of the leading advocates of evangelical-run prisons in the United States - something that Colson, Bush, Coe, and the Fellowship all advocated." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

Also floating around in the fellowship stew were paul weyrich and jerry falwell who started ‘moral majority’. Pat robertson who launched the Christian Coalition. "Pat Robertson’s 700 Club began the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which cleverly combined news broadcasts with religious programming." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). "Robertson, in addition to running his 700 Club television program, decided to invest in diamond mines in Africa. He became close to three of Africa’s most infamous despots ­ Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent D. Kabila of Zaire/Congo and Charles Taylor of Liberia. It was discovered that Robertson was using his "Operation Blessing" aircraft, not to provide aid to African victims of famine, war, and disease, but to transport equipment and supplies for his various diamond mining ventures on the continent. It would not be the only criminal activity engaged in by the Fellowship in Africa’s affairs." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). "There is also an "International Christian Embassy" in Jerusalem that also houses the studios of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

Then of course there is the reverend moon, "the Moon-funded Coalition for Religious Freedom whose advisory board members included such Christian Right luminaries as Don Wildmon, the pro-censorship head of the American Family Association; Pat Crouch, the founder of the Trinity Broadcast Network; and James Kennedy, the televangelist head of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005); "The Moon organization also gained immense influence in the George W. Bush administration. Not only had Bush’s father taken Moon’s money to give speeches after he left office, but the junior Bush appointed Unification Church members to sensitive posts in his administration. David Caprara, head of Moon’s American Family Coalition, was appointed to head the AmericCorps’s anti-poverty program, VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). Moon’s rhetoric would track with the right-wing policies of Bush ­ Moon called gays "dung eating dogs" and American women "prostitutes." And hearkening back to the days of Vereide and Buchman and their Nazi friends, Moon said the Holocaust was God’s revenge for the crucifixion of Christ." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

Looming large in the fellowship is the bush dynasty, "Prescott Bush, the grandfather of George W. Bush was on the board of Union Banking Corporation, whose assets were "seized after the beginning of the Second World War by U.S. Treasury agents. It turned out that Bush’s bank was operated by Bush and his boss Averell Harriman on behalf of Nazi Germany. Prescott’s father-in-law, George Herbert "Bert" Walker, also represented Nazi German interests through his Brown Brothers, Harriman investment company and affiliated firms with names like American Shipping & Commerce, Harriman Fifteen Corporation, Holland Amercian Trading Corporation, Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation, Silesian-American Corporation, and Hamburg-Amerika Line that were tangled together in a circuitous spider’s web. This would be a blueprint for future Bush family/right-wing oil and intelligence enterprises involving election fraud, drug and weapons smuggling, and political assassinations." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

George bush is a highly regarded fellowship member, "The Bush Dynasty and the right-wing Christians decided to reach a concordat. Senior Bush’s intermediary with the Christian right was his "converted" son George W. Bush. After some fits and starts with booze and drugs, George W. Bush was ready for prime time and, with the fervent backing of the Fellowship and its subordinate and allied organizations ­ Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, the Unification Church, he was being groomed to enter national politics." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). Carl rove is another member, "Rove is a key Fellowship asset in the White House. Often whistling "Onward Christian Soldiers" in the halls of the White House, Rove was credited with turning out millions of fundamentalist voters in the 2004 presidential election. Rove also managed to turn out hundreds, if not thousands, of evangelical and fundamentalist election "fixers," who ensured that Democratic votes were suppressed, miscounted, undercounted, discounted, and not counted." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

The founders of the fellowship were extreme, right wing, christian racists, "The evangelical Christian movement championed segregation (in america). Vereide and Buchman could always be relied upon to come up with a Biblical reason for segregation ..." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). They loved capitalism and nazism and hated communists and jews. They believed their money and power would entitle them to a seat alongside god the almighty. "Post-millenialist Fellowship members believe that Jesus will not return until there is a 1000-year pure Christian government established on Earth. It is this mindset that has infused the foreign policy of George W. Bush and his administration. The desire for a thousand year political dominion of the world is not new. Hitler planned for a "Thousand Year Reich" over the planet. It is not a coincidence that Hitler desired, and the so-called Christian dominionists/reconstructionists now contemplate, a thousand year reign. The Christian dominionists are the political heirs of Hitler, the Norwegians Vereide and Quisling, Buchman, Opus Dei founder and fascist patron saint Josemaria Escriva and their political and religious cohorts." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

This mix of racist and christian ideas were still common amongst fellowship members decades later, "Jerry Falwell called South Africa’s Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a "phony" and Pat Robertson’s 700 Club provided a convenient propaganda outlet for South Africa’s apartheid regime .." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

According to madsen, the fellowship has mellowed in recent years over its support for nazism and racism, "The 1972 richard Nixon, billy graham, and H.R. Haldeman tapes "reveal the inconsistencies of the Fellowship. On one hand, their Nazi and Fascist past and tendencies make it seem unlikely that they would be supportive of Israel. Yet, support for Israel is not only something advocated by Graham but also by the shock troops for today’s fundamentalist movement, the so-called "Christian Zionist" wing of the Fellowship." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005); "Religious contradictions among its members were not as important as the drive for political and financial power. The contradiction exists today with the Fellowship: Orthodox Jews, secular-oriented neo-conservative Jews, conservative Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and fundamentalist Sunni and Wahhabi Moslems all cooperate to further an agenda that uses Jesus as a de facto corporate logo." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). "But the Fellowship has shed much of its former ties to the Nazis and fascists. Although the fascist ideology is behind the scenes, the Fellowship has dropped its explicit hatred for other races and religions. One observer called the Fellowship "Fascism with a smiley face."" (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005).

Whilst it is undoubtedly true that over the last couple of decades christian leaders have worked together to encourage millions of christian evangelists to vote for extreme right wing presidential candidates, madsen makes no effort to compare their influence with that of other religious/ethnic groups such as the zionist lobby. For example there are many commentators who have argued that the zionist lobby pushed america into a zionist proxy war against iraq but madsen just states, .. "the so-called "Christian" Right has long waited to take the biggest prize of all - the White House. Bill moyers correctly sees the Dominionists or "End Timers" as being behind the invasion of Iraq. He cites the Book of Revelation that states, "four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of man." Such words may have their place in Sunday School and in church halls but using such thinking to launch wars of convenience or religious prophecy have no place in our federal and democratic republic. Moyers also rightly sees fundamentalist thought behind Bush’s "faith-based initiatives" and the rolling back of environmental regulations." (Wayne Madsen ‘Expose: The "Christian" Mafia’ http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm c.February 2005). Quite how this quote from the bible leads to an american invasion of iraq madsen doesn’t bother to explain.

In order to ascertain the political forces behind the invasion of iraq it is necessary to go back nearly thirty years to a president who was not a fellowship member. In the 1973 arab-zionist war, the arab armies were gaining the upper hand. Nixon had to decide whether he would intervene and on which side. After all, america relied on arab oil just like the rest of the world. According to the oil theory of politics this decision should have been a no brainer. The arabs had vast quantities of oil whilst the zionist state had none. And politically there was nothing that the zionist state could do for america that one or other of the arab countries could not do. America also needed to lure arab countries from the clutches of the soviet empire. And yet, nixon choose to support the zionist state. "When Israel faced defeat before the united armies of Egypt and Syria, Sec. Of State Henry Kissinger ordered America armaments flown into the Israel-occupied Sinai Peninsula, giving Israel a pivotal advantage against her Arab foes. The ensuing Arab outrage produced the great oil embargo of 1973, sending the U.S. into a debilitating recession for the better part of a decade." (Mark Green with Wendy Campbell ‘Exit Neo-Conservatives, Enter Neo-Liberals’ http://www.aljazeerah.info
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Neo-Conservatives,%20Enter%20Neo-Liberals%20By%20Mark
%20Green%20with%20Wendy%20Campbell.htm August 7th 2004). In other words, the zionist lobby was powerful enough even in the 1970s to force america into supporting the zionist state even though this meant massive oil price rises that seriously damaged the american, and the global, economy and could have permanently alienated the arab world pushing it further into the arms of the soviet union.

The power of the zionist lobby has increased since the 1973 war. It is true that christian evangelism has grown considerably in political power over the last twenty years but the particular strain of evangelism that has flourished has been one which has been groomed, supported, and financed, by the zionist lobby because it promotes zionist objectives. America’s political leaders are not true christians but zionist muppets who use christianity to win elections in order to promote zionist foreign policies. If christian evangelists really dominated american politics they would be pursuing policies to turn america into a christian state. However, christian evangelists do not give absolute priority to the policy of ending the constitutional separation of church and state. Zionists in america are implacably opposed to the aboolition of church and state and deter american christians from creating a christian state in america ­ whilst at the same time using american christians to promote a judaic state in palestine where there is little separation between church and state. In other words, in the power battle between zionists and christian evangelicals, the former plainly more powerful than the latter. In america the constitutional separation of christian churches from the state symbolizes the dominate position of the zionist lobby over christian evangelism.