apocalyptics

Late evening.
Heelers flumped in front of the sexevision.
Accidentally landed on Barack Obama's publicity channel.
I mean CNN.
For once they weren't talking about Barack.
Reports were coming in about the war between Russia and Georgia.
The CNN presenter claimed that an online opinion poll showed 70 percent of people considered Russian actions to be acceptable as part of Russia's peacekeeping role in the South Caucasus.
To disseminate this obviously false figure from an obviously tainted CNN survey while the war was still underway, was an act of crass and incomparable vileness.
I am suggesting the 70 percent figure disseminated by CNN can only have served to embolden the Russians in their attack.
I am suggesting that virtually no one in the free world with half a brain, no one outside of CNN at least, considered the Russian attack to be peacekeeping.
Yes I am well aware that a Sky News journo reported the Russian actions as though they were a response to Georgian aggression and used the phrase: "The Russian Bear woke up."
But Sky News doesn't really have any pretentions to ability or objectivity. Sky News is really just an encounter group for goonish Brit Marxian trendies who haven't a clue about anything.
We're not going to hold it against them.
CNN is another matter.
As I listened on that fateful evening, the CNN presenter trotted out the following:
"Of course, President Bush's hands are tied because the American army is bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan."
For a moment I was speechless with fury.
I really was.
You have to wonder.
What exactly does CNN want?
That America should have ignored Al Qaeda and her associated backers in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and Syria and Iran, for the past seven years?
Done nothing after Nine Eleven?
Ignored the threat to the world from Muslim terrrorists so that presumably now, the American army could be despatched under the leadership of CNN to fight the Russians in Georgia?
I ask you.
Are the brave heroic staff journalists of CNN absolutely f--king insane?
I mean are they congenitally stupid or just plain mad?
Here is the news.
Under no circumstances can the West, meaning the free world, meaning America and Australia and Europe, under no circumstances I say, can any of us countenance a war with Russia.
Russia is either our partner and entitled to respect, or else she's our enemy and the world ends.
War with Russia would mean the end of life on this planet.
I am appealing to those great warriors of the newsroom at CNN to cease suggesting at every opportunity that if only the American army wasn't so busy in Iraq and Afghanistan, it could just march straight into Georgia and turf out the Russians.
CNN you should know by now that advocating war with the Russians can get people killed.
Millions of people.
Hundreds of millions.
Ah yes.
Apparently CNN is so mired in trying to discredit President Bush that all news stories must now be interpreted as a refutation of Mr Bush's decision to liberate Afghanistan from the Taliban and to end the Saddam Hussein family murderocracy in Iraq.
Of course it's most strange that the heroes of CNN would presume to mention Iraq at all.
They do have short memories don't they?
Why, it doesn't seem like five years since we discovered CNN had deliberately covered up murders by Saddam's regime in order to preserve its broadcasting rights in Iraq.
By covered up, I mean "failed to report" murders they were aware of.
Some of those murdered were actually working for CNN.
They didn't even report those.
Yes, you heard me right.
The swines admitted it.
(By swines I'm not referring to anyone associated with the Iraqi regime. I am referring to CNN.)
CNN's concern for the people of Iraq dates to the moment the Americans ousted Saddam Hussein.
They've been crying crocodile tears ever since.



For those readers who've been asking me to speak clearly about the situation in the Caucasus...
Well you asked for it.
My opinion of the situation is this.
The Russians invaded Georgia on the night of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing.
They manufactured a pretext to do so.
Mr Putin (twice President, now Prime Minister) is running Russia. Mr Medvedev is a figurehead for him.
The Russians have legitimate grievances when citing the West's support for Muslim separatists in Russia's ally Serbia.
The Russians have legitimate grievances when citing American plans to locate a missile defence system in Europe.
The Russians have legitimate grievances when citing a lack of consultation from Western powers with Russia as to her concerns in geopolitical matters.
But the Russian action in Georgia is a land grab.
Nothing more.


It is not an option to go to war with Russia.
We need to start talking again.
And we need, all of us, to return to God.