OK..first and foremost, this is just my opinion..and only at this moment..but I feel strong enough about it to put it forward..and let others take it from there..

I do not believe the whole issue of the WAR is OIL..not at lall..I do not believe Bush can get anyone, any decent American onbaord to his program..and particularilyt his vision..by such a grass argument..and I believe Bush is sincerely convinced and honest enough in himself not to try to trick his following by reqasons for WAR while in himself determined to wage it all for OIL..
So in this regard I believe many protesters, in the Arab world and in modern Europe..DO NOT UNDERSTANDD America and the present administration, as to what motivates it and makes it tick.

I feel it is all about the Christian conservative (which by a coincidence of History has the Jewish lobby on its side on this) wing of Amercian policy, which is fueling the drive to WAR..following its basic hostility and animus against Mohammedanism..militant Islam..which has been in our collective soul for ages..especially in the religiously inclined and astute!

Since this area of feeling is absent form modern secular rational scientific Europe, as well as from the Arab world..Amerecia is NOT understood in its holy and missionary zeal.
BUt ask a Franklin Graham, a Bob Jones, a Dr. Dobson..and they are ALL ALIGNED with BUSH on this!

They are natural allies as they think along the SAME lines..conservative Christianity.!

And politics in the hands of these people is a dangerous thing, because for this group, death is not a terrbile thing either, as it is not for the militant Muslims..

On this Osama is correct..he is being challenged by the Crusaders and the Jews.

It is this missionary ZEAL which fires BUSH..especially after having been BROUGHT to the Lord from a confused and unfocused life of alcohol abuse (if you can believe the articles written in this regard) or let us say, indulgence..by a talk with Billy Graham.
I do not hear Billy Graham or Franklin Graham say a word against this rush to war..I do hear the Pope speak out!

I hear Franklin and Dr. Dobson and Bob Jones approve all the current developments to this WAR..and so THIS MAKES me FEEL (whether I am right I cannot say with certainty, but I suspect strongly these things!) that Amercia is in the hands of the CHRISTIAN conservative Right!

And this is what appals me!
I am of European background, Christian, white...and if not so called Anglo-Saxon, but rather of the German race.however the Angles and the Saxons are basically Germanic..came from the German tribes, are German tribes immigrated to England..and (Bush and Rumsfeld are in fact common German names) ..and so I can sense these peole much more than someone not of this race.

I am not against Christian Amercia saving the world if in fact it is called to do it..but to RUSH to save the world..under SUNDAY SCHOOL simplistic pretexts..defies our inate rationality as human beings.

Religion..zealous religion..New England puritanical religion can blind!

And this is what I protest and the world protests.
The arch injustice of the use of brute power in this bullying sanctimonious, holier than thou arrogant approach as Bush uses it.
He reminds me of a Preacher's son sissy..a man who was formed by others, without having thought things thru deeply for himself.
That America (I am Canadian) EVER got itself a President like Bush speaks volumes for the rest ot the WOrld.
Regime change should and will begin in Amercia..or Amercia will be deposed as a world power eventiually.
It is time for America to throw off the Tyranny of its conservative right..its military right..as Germany had to do in the past! and many other nations!
Otherwise the world will array against her..as it must!
Bring democracy to the Middle East? I doubt Amercia cares enough about that..neverhas before, and I do nto see Bush as REALKLY caring in this regard.
If anything, this kind of imposed democracy is meant to pacify the Middle East under the West..and this is Pure oppression!

Thank you...

Peter Evert