Read article on link below, quite good. Re Messiah - The Bush administration IS in a sense wallowing in the same absurdity that a non-secular and theologically legitimized power structure would represent if applied in modernity. It's mostly reminiscient of Mesopotamian polytheistic high cultures (by way of personifying political entities with gods, they too would find mythical justifications for attacking neighbouring city states ("axis of evil" - did he mean this poetically?): God -> gives monarch power, gives him legitimacy -> monarch acts according to theological cosmic model. There is an automatic justification of power involved that essentially rests on myths. Only that here this cosmic myth is some intransparent half-truth that everybody has been educated to not care about. It's the fucking McDonald's myth and has a logo. The Bush administration seems to appeal to the same mechanism when explaining (and feeling legitimate about): "We have to do what we think is right."

Potentially, they are just ill-educated and not informed about the humanistic implications of their political reality ("reality") ("I guess they didn't understand...").

Messianic War Cult

We have met the hegemony, and he is us

by Matthew Hogan hoganzeroes@aol.com

HIJACKING NATIONAL SECURITY: THE WAR PARTY

Who's flying the plane? --- The probable terrifying final thoughts of many September 11, 2001 victims.

Today, many are asking the same thing about the Bush Administration's subsequent foreign policy. Despite failing to secure Osama bin-Laden's fate, the Administration now careens in search of ever-expanding Executive Branch-initiated war against an "axis of evil." First stop, Iraq.

Of course, there may be a case for war against Iraq. The benefit potential for Iraq alone of ending the rule of Saddam Hussein is obvious. But for those steering the policy, Iraq is only the beginning. And the actual Iraq-specific case for war appears to be of secondary importance to them at best.
Now, who's flying that plane?

President Bush remains the ultimate party responsible, but it is no secret that a factional War Party has won the ears, hearts, and minds of the President, Vice-President, National Security Adviser and Secretary of Defense. As Scott Ritter, the Republican ex-Marine who hounded Saddam's secret weapons group for several years, has warned:

"The national security of the United States of America has been hijacked by a handful of neo-conservatives who are using their position of authority to pursue their own ideologically-driven political ambitions."