Reglious Right vs. Islamic Extremists Are there any differences?

There seems to be a double standard when condeming religious fanaticism, depending on what religion it is. Everyone condems the Islamic extremism that is used by the terrorists to strike fear in the lives of people across the world, yet we don't hear the out cry when the christian fundamentialism is demonstrated.

What brought this about was the arrest of Eric Rudolph, the abortion clinic bomber that was captured a few months ago. There was no out cry but christian leaders about the hypocracy of killing adults to stop the supposed killing of a fetus. Yet every time there is was a beheading or a terroristic attack, the media cries how Islamic leaders should step up and condemn terrorism.

Another example is Pat Roberts calling for the assasination of Venzuela's President. If a Venzuelian called for the assassination of President Bush, I'm sure there would be an outcry.

Now, I'm not speaking about the billions of religious people in the world, that use religon as a positive guiding force in their lives. I believe religion plays an important part of society and humanity in general. But it disgusts me when people use these beliefs to benefit themselves and/or some fringe idea of theirs.

Fundementialism is dangerous no matter which religion is coming from. If its the Crusades, to IRA, to Iraqi Freedom fighters, it should be called out and condemned by the leaders of every religion.

Why Not Admit When You're Misled?

Let me firstly explain, that I agree with the war in Iraq. I agree when the president says he'd believe our CIA and foreign intelligence over the Sadam.

What I don't understand, though, is why it took so long for the president to come out and say that he was misled by faulty intelligence information, and that there wasn't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

That fact doesn't take away from two main points: the faulty information wasn't W.'s fault, and the war is still justified.

As a president, s/he is the manager of the federal government. As with all managers, he needs to delegate most of the work in his job. It is obviously impossible for the president or any leader to have his hands on all aspects of the job. As a manager myself, I make decisions every day based on information that I get from others. As time goes on, you learn who's information is more reliable then others.

As president, he was given information from several sources both domestic and foreign that Iraq had WMD. Not to mention all the human rights violations that were known from the first desert storm. George W., took the information at his disposal and made the correct decision, as did a vast majority of congress and the population. Funny, how quickly we forget how congress voted to give the president the power to go to war, but that's another post.

The point is, everyone makes mistakes, and it builds respect and credibility to admit it, to explain to the American People what happened. You have to believe in people and thier ability to understand complicated issues. It took the president years to finally admit the intelligence was wrong, and that decreases his credibility in my eyes.

Powerful Protect the Powerful

Despite being on different sides of the political aisle. It is very clear that both political sides are are more concerned with keeping power then preserving any moralistic or idealistic beliefs they have.

For instance, George W. Bush stop the investigation into Bill Clinton and his pardoning spree hours before leaving office. Why would a direhard republican who's party tried to impeach "slick willy" not want to bury his political foe?

Because more important to politicians then core beliefs is maintaining the status quo and the power that comes with it. If the current president goes after his predicessor, what would stop the next president from doing that to him?

There are many examples of the powerful protecting themselves on every side of the political sphere. From not passing campaign finance reform, to redistricting, most politicians are guilty of this.

Please post further examples of politicans protecting themselves at the cost of their employers - YOU!