statueman's Blog

When I was in Missouri Military Academy in the 70's I heard a speech given by and Iranian student explaining why Iran was so angry with US policy.  If you remember the shaw of Iran used torture and bought alot of cadillacs.  We supported this man.  This morning I must say that when Reverend Wright said the things he said I find it hard to totally disagree with him.  CIA covert operations led to alot of horrible circumstances in the lives of millions of people.  That was our government at work.

Wright pointed out that we sold Iraq weapons of mass destruction and then got mad when they used them.  People will argue that we didn't sell those biological weapons to Iraq but then Coca Cola didn't sell Coke in Nazi Germany... they sold Fanta... but oh well.  Our mistakes and war like activities are justifiable cause we did them all for the right reason right?  Even Bush senior has said in the past (1990?) that we suffer from a white adult male dominated intelligence community.  If anything else 9/11 bears that out... we need to broaden our scope.

Th Wright Press conference has changed my opinion of the man slightly.  I think he may very well be suffering from a mental illness which prevents him from seeing how dangerous it is to say what he is saying.  To that all I can say is thank God for mental illness.

Wright served in the military and ran a domestic mission style church for years and now he's got the floor and some folks are cheering... wanna know why?  Cause we're glad somebodies saying it... How popular do you really think Dr. Martin Luther King was when he was going around preaching against injustices? 

Now press people are saying Rev Wright should get off the world stage.  They put the man there in the first place and now they want to say Wright is using this for personal gain.  Yup!  I know I sure as hell would use it for personal gain if the media dragged my name through the dirt and ran sound bites countless times calling me and my church racist.

Well... cats out of the bag now.  Uncle Tom got his pink slip.