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LETTER TO THE READER

Dear reader:

This website was removed by Town Hall on April 12th for unknown reasons and is in the process of being restored.

Read my blogs from bottom up starting with The Rise of Nuclear Iran.

Restored to this site will be the following:

The Rise of Nuclear Iran

The Oracle of John Kerry: The Specter of Vietnam and the Mystery of His Presidential Campaign.

Nancy Pelosi, William Westmoreland and the Sign of the Surge.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain: The Secret Meaning of their Presidential Campaigns

And the controversial: The Death of Ronald Reagan: The Providential Man and His Providential Disease. The probable reason why this site was removed.

Also to be posted:

The Sign of Tim Johnson: George Bush, Woodrow Wilson and the Fate of the Middle East. The hidden meaning of Johnson's extraordinary brain seizure as it relates to the surge and our policies in the Middle East.

John McCain: The Mantles of Kennedy and Reagan. This is a prediction of McCain's coming victory in November based on a complex of numerical signs, election cycles and historical analogies.

The Columbia Shuttle Disaster and the Coming End of Fascist Iran. This catastrophe has the violent end of the mullah regime written all over it.

Obama's Spiritual Secret: the secret behind Barack Obama's powers to fascinate and entrance people. This will expose one of the great political hoaxes of American history.

Also to be published is a new proof of God's existence using the near simultaneous deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. This is a proof by divine action, not by human reason. 
 
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SIGNS OF A JIHADIST PLOT TO KILL BARACK OBAMA

I completely agree with Hugh Hewitt and other conservative pundits that Barack Obama is a cunning radical leftist masquerading as a sober centrist. In fact, he is so far left he makes George McGovern look like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill. But that, in my view, is a sufficient reason why Obama, entrancing powers and all, will lose in November and go down in history as the Second Coming of George McGovern-if, of course, he’s fortunate enough to last that long. For I see an ominous cloud gathering over Obama’s head the cloud of death by assassination reminiscent of the murders of the Kennedys and Dr. King in the 1960s-not committed by some right wing nut on a mission to save our republic, but by our militant Islamic foes who want to destroy us and make Islam powerful again.

The idea of the Obama’s murder by Islamic extremists would seem preposterous (remember he’s the “surrender candidate”) if it weren't for the fact of his AIPAC speech on Wednesday and then his meeting on Thursday with Hillary Clinton at the Washington home of Dianne Feinstein. Let me explain:

Obama the naïve, pretentious left wing radical, the messianic ideologue that history has been waiting for; the man who is going to “slow the rise of oceans,” and save civilization, “remake America” and “heal the world,” cannot win the presidency unless he moves to the center of the political spectrum and convinces the public that he’s a normal down to earth American family man sharing in their values, hopes and dreams-a difficult juggling act for a man aiming at such grandiose things. To moderate his image Obama has done the following:

1. He has distanced himself from the pro-Hamas, pro-Nation of Islam, America hating Reverend Wright, his pastor and mentor for twenty years.

2. He terminated his membership in the pro-Hamas, Afro-centric black radical Trinity Church to which he largely owes his success in politics in the Chicago community and beyond.

3. He affirmed on several occasions now that an Obama administration would never negotiate with Hamas until it first renounces terror and accepts Israel's right to exist.

4. He gave a very strong pro-Israel speech at AIPAC where he committed to keeping Israel strong and free and to preserving Jerusalem as its undivided capital.

These four things, especially the last, have had the effect of ending Hamas's support for Obama who the terrorist group no longer sees as a potential ally in their struggle to defeat Israel. And what is true for Hamas is true for all of Israel’s murderous enemies in the region: Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.

Indeed, on Thursday a disappointed Hamas spokesman, Abu Zuhri, said of Obama’s speech : "it confirms the consensus of the two American political parties on unlimited aid to the (Israeli) occupation at the expense of Palestinians and Arabs…… It destroys any hope for change in American policies toward the Arab-Israeli conflict." The “politics of change” doesn’t include Hamas, and with the collapse of their hopes of having Obama as an ally and friend-a hope in ruins for many Jihadists-comes the danger of his being murdered for letting them down as indicated by the following signs:

1. Hillary Clinton's unwitting remark on May 23rd about RFK’s assassination. This raised a tempest with Obama supporters wrongly suspecting that she was wishing him dead so that she could be president.

2. Clinton's meeting with Obama thirteen days later at the house of Diane Feinstein. What happened at this meeting, what was discussed, argued and agreed to, is less important than when it happened. For the meeting took place on June 5th, the 40th anniversary of RFK's assassination, hosted by a woman who in 1978 became Mayor of San Francisco upon the assassination of Mayor Mascone by an irate city politician. It is interesting to note that as Geraldine Ferraro was chosen by Walter Mondale over Feinstein for his VP in 1984 this is an unmistakable sign that Hillary will not be Obama’s running mate. At the same time this could be an omen of coming tragedy: the female politician Hillary Clinton replacing the male presidential nominee as Feinstein replaced the murdered Mascone as Mayor in leftist San Francisco-in the state where RFK’s murder took place.

Indeed, in proportion as Obama moves toward the center and away from the left on foreign affairs and security issues the danger critically grows that Jihadists will strike him down. Indeed, as presidential candidate RFK was assassinated by the Palestinian fanatic Sirhan Sirhan for his strong support of Israel so now Obama is a marked man for his “unshakable” support of the Jewish State with Jihadist plots against his life probably hatching as I write. At this point a dead Obama causing race riots and havoc across America-with our cities burning and people killed as happened in the 60s-is more valuable to our enemies for dividing and weakening us than a live pro-Israel president continuing the policies of the past.

The cat is out of the bag on Obama’s significant ties to the radical left, which includes his influential Marxist mother, and there is no putting it back. Despite his charismatic powers and talents as a speaker Obama is incapable of seizing the center and winning the election in November. His campaign is no anchor and all sail desperately trying to out run John McCain on security and defense issues and in confronting Iran over its nuclear program, as he did in his insincere AIPAC speech. In time the Obama Express will derail as the novelty of his charisma wears thin and he’s seen for the dissembling leftist ideologue that he is offering nothing new but the color of his skin.

We must start thinking seriously about Obama’s safety and take every precaution to keep him from harm. RFK’s death is a warning that he must tighten his security as it is possible that he’s now being targeted for death by a lone Arab gunman like Sirhan, planning to strike from a crowd at a campaign rally; or by professional Jihadist killers who have penetrated his campaign invisibly using poison, snipers or bombs. The murder of this man would be a national calamity with huge social costs that we can ill afford, especially since it could all but guarantee the unprecedented victory of Hillary Clinton.

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THE DEATH OF RONALD REAGAN: THE PROVIDENTIAL MAN AND HIS PROVIDENTIAL DISEASE (THIRD REVISION)

Dear Theo:

While George Bush and John Kerry were battling each other for the presidency Ronald Reagan suddenly passed away, dying quietly at his Bel Air home on a sad June day from Alzheimer’s Disease. The nation would spend the next seven days mourning the loss of this great man and celebrating his epic achievements as the President who restored America to greatness, defeated the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.

Like most admirers of the Gipper I have struggled to make sense of his terrible disease; struggled to reconcile his pitiable end with his victorious life, a life that bore signs of Divine favor and predestined greatness.

As Reagan was a providential man and one of humanity’s great benefactors, liberating millions from communist tyranny and ending the specter of nuclear war, surely his life above all men deserved a better and happier end. So why did it end as it did? Why did he end his days with a terrible disease causing heartaches and tears to his family and friends and saddening the nation that loved him? Why did it consume his memory and end his days as the Great Communicator when the God who can count the hairs on our head could have healed his brain and made it good again?

Was Reagan’s illness then the work of mindless chance-the chaotic, random, unguided play of adversity and blind forces callously striking him down without just cause? Does Reagan’s disease justify a belief in atheism, or anti-theism? The belief that God is a fiction created by man to give his life solace and meaning? The belief that man alone is an intelligent being the ultimate measurer and judge of all things with no higher power transcending the world dispensing justice, mercy and grace?

After Reagan became the first U.S. President to survive being hit by a gunman’s bullet missing death by a hair, was he wrong to believe that his life belonged to God and what remained of it was in His good care? In short, was Reagan merely a fortunate man, the beneficiary of lucky chance, luckily becoming President when he did and defeating the Soviet Union? Then unluckily succumbing to a cruel disease that wasted his brain and memory? Not on your life! As the sun rises and sets in the infinite sky showing order, measure, harmony and design so the rising and setting of this man’s life was no less measured and designed. I believe and hope to prove that as Reagan was a providential man so was his Alzheimer’s a providential disease, a disease that was a prophetic sign with meaning for our stumbling nation in these troubling times of conflict and war.

But before I attempt to unravel the mystery of Reagan’s death and wasting disease I must say a few words about his singular life especially the day when he became President, that new morning in America when his revolution was born and the nightmare of the 60s and 70s was over.

Little did the Gipper know as he placed his hand on his King James Bible swearing before Almighty God to defend and protect our country that minutes later would see an end to the hostage crisis with Iran with our diplomats coming home in peace.

Indeed, Theo, on the 444th day of that galling crisis without a single shot fired from rifle or gun Iran released all 52 captives from bondage unharmed. How oracular! How emblematic! How prophetic of things to come! Didn’t this auspicious day of freedom for the 52 prefigure the peaceful end of the Soviet Union, an Evil Empire that would fall mostly due to Reagan’s destructive plans? And did not the day of Reagan’s election 77 days before foreshadow the great day of his inauguration? For that day oddly fell on November 4th one year from the day when the hostage crisis began, a day when the 40th President-to-be carried 44 of 50 states in an historic landslide victory (note 1).

But more amazing still was the mathematics of that day: as “number confirms truth,” as St. Augustine said, the triplet number 4-4-4 when multiplied by 4, the number of the day America was born, gives us the number 1776, the number of the year of our great revolution. As Reagan advanced our revolutionary destiny, and the spirit that was kindled in 1776, by freeing millions held hostage behind the Iron Curtain it all symbolically and joyously began on the portentous day when 52 Americans were finally set free after 14 months of criminal captivity (see note 2).

But the mystery of Ronald Reagan and the trinity of fours doesn't end here, Theo. As the birthday of Reagan’s victorious revolution started with this triplet number so too did it mysteriously reappear at the end of his days. For on the tearful June day when the Gipper died he returned to life for one last time as the Great Communicator delivering oracles and ominous signs about our mission in Iraq and the crisis in the Middle East; signs about the war we are waging and our conflict with Iran related to the day when his presidency began on the triplet number 4-4-4.

For 37 years to the day before Reagan died, 444 months in the past, Israel began the 67 War with a preemptive strike on Egypt’s air force in what was to be one of the great military victories of history (see note 3). Indeed, in six short days Israel defeated the forces of 9 Arab states backed by the Soviets, captured East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and dramatically increased the size of its territories by a factor of 3. This was a glorious day for Reagan to die on; but did it have any meaning for our country, Israel and the war in the Middle East? Or was it a mere coincidence without any significance at all? Now if that is all I had to say about Reagan’s last day on earth, that it corresponded to the first day of his presidency by way of the 67 War and the number 4-4-4, it would be little more than an interesting coincidence, a curious fact for the trivia books. For between a hostage crisis that peacefully ends without loss of life and a full blown war where thousands died and suffered there is no special meaning illuminating Reagan’s death other than a number to connect them.

But what brings meaning to that day and transforms his death into a truly prophetic event is one huge amazing fact that has gone unnoticed till this day: for apart from the convergence of Reagan’s death with the 444th month from Israel’s war this emotional day of sadness and grace also fell on the 444th day of the Iraq War. Incredible as it is, Theo, from the opening strike of “Shock and Awe,” on March 19, 2003, to the moment Reagan died from his disease was 444 days-exactly and precisely corresponding to the duration of the hostage crisis of 22 years before (see note 4).

In other words, we now have more than just the 67 War to connect the start of Reagan’s presidency with the last moments of his life; we now have more than just the number 4-4-4 we have the 444th day of another Mid East war in a new world struggle after the fall of Soviet Communism.

THE WAR OF DIVERSION AND VIRTUAL BONDAGE

Now as Reagan ominously died 444 days into the Iraq War and this was measured in days not months like the period of the hostage crisis of two decades before it relates to that ordeal in a highly analogous and meaningful way with a message of warning to the President and nation: for the man who became President in the final moments of a hostage crisis with Iran lasting 444 days quietly dies 444 days into a grueling war fought in post-Saddam Iraq where an influential, insidious, murderous Iran is covertly attacking and killing our troops with local and foreign forces. As number confirms truth, Theo, “bringing to light the hidden things of darkness,” the hidden painful difficult truth that this triplet number brings to light is that America once again has been taken captive, taken captive by our cunning enemies in fascist Iran in a new and more dangerous hostage dilemma that is leading to a regional crisis for American power and the peace and security of the Middle East. What the incredible convergence of this triplet number reveals is that our troops in Iraq are bound, chained and shackled, fighting and dying in a war of diversion and virtual bondage; a war largely engineered by the devils in Iran as they advance with relative impunity their menacing plans of becoming a regional power and nuclear armed state.

We must awaken from slumber and see the truth, Theo, see it with unflinching eyes before it‘s too late: the day that Ronald Reagan died was a prophetic warning to the nation about Iran, about our Iranian captivity in Iraq and how Iran is winning the U.S. war in that country and the battle for influence and power in the strategically vital Middle East (see note 5). This is the message of Reagan’s death and we better pay heed before it’s too late and Iran gets the bomb and uses it to advance its evil plans.

Against all rhyme and reason through five successive administrations, from Carter to Bush II, we’ve been enabling the rise of terrorist Iran, assisting it in its terrible journey from weakness into a regional power practically every step along the way: from the revolution’s infancy to the present day, from deserting the Shah to ridding Iraq of Saddam to the Iraq elections of 2005 when a pro-Iran alliance of Shiite extremists aided by Iran stole the election and was the unwanted victor. In short, Iran has been playing us for fools riding on the back of U.S. foreign policy to nuclear and regional victory. And unless we put a stop to this and stop it soon the world’s most dangerous regime will have the world’s most terrible weapons increasing the risk of nuclear war and making the job of defeating it more difficult and deadly.

THE THREE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISES

The sign of the triplet number 4-4-4 falling on Reagan’s inauguration then doubly on the day of his death signify that we are now in a third hostage crisis with Iran: the first under Jimmy Carter, the second under Reagan and the third and most dangerous, under George W. Bush.

Indeed, the first crisis began on the 4th day of November, 1979 under Jimmy Carter. The second Iran-Contra in 1985 was in the 4th year of Reagan’s presidency (see note 6) and, to complete the trinity of shame, the third began on January 30, 2005, ten days into Bush’s 4th year. This was the day of the first Iraq election, Theo, where due to Iranian corruption, meddling and funds-unopposed by the administration (see note 7)-a pro-Iran alliance of intransigent Shiite bigots took control of Iraq’s new state. Moreover, and quite ominously, January 30, 2005 was the 37th anniversary of the Tet Offensive 444 months in the past (see note 8)-giving us the same triplet number that marked the duration of the hostage crisis-a powerful warning of virtual captivity and possible defeat to come; the sign of an American army held captive by Iran’s political and militant allies in Iraq; the sign of a new and more terrible Vietnam to come as the Tet Offensive was the turning point in the Vietnam War.

As it was the President’s noble plan to build an American type democracy in Iraq with a liberal constitution that would limit the role of Islam and protect the rights of minorities and women-an Arab city on a hill-the election of a pro-Iran Islamo-centric regime based on the Koran was a Tet-like setback and defeat of this plan. This I call the Tet Election of Iraq fought with ballots at the voting booth, not with bullets and bombs in the field; an election that marked the real beginning of our new captivity by Iran-a captivity which continuing today became evident to all when the Iraqi government with great warmth and fanfare rolled out the carpet of friendship and peace to Islamonazi leader Ahmadinejad on his unprecedented state visit to Iraq (see note 9).

My God, Theo, when I look at the Middle East I shutter at what’s happening with fear: just as Hitler in the 1930s became the great statesman of Europe, the diplomat of the decade, for defying the Versailles Treaty and restoring defeated Germany to a continental power so is something similar happening with Iran today. Indeed, in defying the world community with its covert nuclear weapon’s program-violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty at every turn-and massively funding global terrorism, Iran is growing in stature in the Middle East with Ahmadinejad, invited and feted everywhere, emerging as the region’s great diplomat and statesman (see The Rise of Nuclear Iran).

Imagine Theo if this were the Vietnam War and South Vietnamese voters, influenced by Hanoi, voted into power a pro-Hanoi government of anti-U.S. Communists. Then imagine this government inviting Ho Chi Menh to a state visit of friendship and peace while his troops and guerrillas were killing our soldiers in the field. Would defending the South against the North make any sense when its government was no longer an ally in fighting Communism? Of course not! Our troops would be hostages in Vietnam, and America would be the laughing stock of the world.

And that’s precisely where we are today in Iraq, Theo. We are defending a democratically elected government of pro-Iranian Shiite extremists while their allies in Iran kill and maim our troops through their surrogates while forging the chains of Iraq‘s political and economic subservience. Before the entire world evil Iran commits acts of war and terror against us and what do we do? Do we bring the war on terror directly to Iran, directly to the center of radical Shiite terror, and rid the world of its regime? No! Instead we impose sanctions, freeze assets, blacklist banks and brand Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group (see note 10). We try every measure that failed with Saddam hoping against hope that it will succeed with the more pigheaded mullahs. These are not the actions of a superpower, Theo, but of a weak and feckless state turning its cheek when evil strikes and inviting more and worse attacks-inaction that reinforce Khomeine’s view that America is a helpless giant “that can do nothing,” to stop Iran. Is it any wonder that we are losing the respect of moderate Arab states and Iraq‘s Shiite government? that a credibility and security gap is opening in the Middle East? that the President is ignored and rebuffed when he urges the formation of an anti-Iran coalition so vital to the security and peace of the region (see note 11)? What state that rules by force will join its fortunes to a falling star that refuses to defend its interests and honor when attacted? Not the Saudis, not the Egyptians, not the rulers of Jordan or Kuwait. Iran is perceived as the winning horse of the region and our allies shaking in fear are understandably bowing to them.

Sadly, Theo, the Shiite leaders of Iraq’s elected government are no friends to America, no friends to freedom, no friends to human rights and liberal ideals. They may be allies in the war against al Qaida and the powerful Mahdi Army (rivals of SCIRI/Badr Corps in a factional struggle for power), but not in the struggle with Hamas, Hezbollah and the terror masters of Iran who they cringingly fear like other frightened Arab states. Iraq’s Shiite leaders are part of the problem in the Middle East and are practically useless for advancing the cause of freedom, civilization and peace in the region.

In short, Theo, on the 37th anniversary of the Tet Offensive the voters of Iraq, heavily influenced by Iran, went on the political offensive to peacefully defeat their Liberator-in-Chief and his American dream for their Moslem country. But our tenacious President held fast to his dreams. Unwilling to admit defeat he spun the election into a triumph for freedom and used the defense of Iraq’s young democracy to justify continuing the war. Indeed, as the President moved deeper and deeper into unreality (see The Sign of Tim Johnson), hoping against experience and 1000 years of sectarian strife that a liberal state of reconciliation would emerge in Iraq-an inspirational model for the region-the stage was set for our virtual captivity and the fall of our preeminence in the region. The decision to continue the war in Iraq and not bring it to Iran-the principle source of Iraq’s destabilizing violence-is proving to be a colossal strategic blunder; a blunder that is costing us dearly as resurgent Iran intimidating the region builds the ultimate weapon of terror and death for its arsenal of blood.

THE PROPHET JEREMIAH AND THE NUMBER 444

Not by unplanned chance or accident did Reagan die that June 5th day, Theo; and the recurrence of the rare, strange triplet number 444 incontrovertibly proves it. In fact, and quite amazingly, there is Scriptural support for this phenomenon coming from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, an heroic man who spoke truth to power and was put in chains for his audacity. As if speaking to us across the ages about the day Reagan died and the captivity of our troops in Iraq Jeremiah, chapter 24 verse 1-on the Babylonian Captivity (see note 12)-uses the term “hegaluth” which is Hebrew for “the captivity” when prophesying about the coming defeat of the Jews and their bondage in Babylon (present day Iraq). What is relevant about this word to this inquiry, and completely mind boggling, is that in the Hebrew language where letters are numbers and used in counting and mathematics “hegaluth” has a numeric value of 444 (see note 13).

THE 11-4 TRAP

Theo, before I move on to the most difficult and sensitive part of this letter, the prophetic meaning of Ronald Reagan’s disease, one final word about Iraq and the Iran Hostage Crisis of 28 years ago. As this crisis began on November 4, 1979 or the date 11-4 (the date of the upcoming election) when both these numbers are combined to form the single number 114 it gives us the number of the Iraq War Resolution, H. J. Res. 114, passed by Congress on October 10, 2002 authorizing the President to use military force for removing Saddam Hussein from power. I will have more to say about this number in my letter on the Columbia disaster. Suffice it to say that this was a forewarning that military intervention in Iraq could become an 11-4 trap for our troops and a boon to Iran as indeed was the case when the hostage crisis of 1979 was skillfully exploited by Khomeine to consolidate his grip on power. What happened 28 years ago foreshadowed the crisis that is looming today where America must choose between the use of military force to bring down the mullahs or letting them build the bomb allow them to have the capability of holding the oil rich Persian Gulf hostage to nuclear blackmail and to nuke Israel in a deadly first strike-which they have threatened to do. But let us move on to the third part of this letter:

THE MYSTERY OF REAGAN’S DISEASE

As we have seen, Theo, the amazing day of Reagan’s death was not a mindless chance event driven by blind unguided forces, but a synchronized convergence of meaningful numbers, dates and events that relate to our time and history and especially to the gathering threat of Iran‘s growing power in the Middle East due to our bondage in Iraq. For that day was doubly connected and linked to the triplet number 444 a number which signifies bondage and liberty, oppression and freedom, of hostages seized and hostages freed, of an army held in captivity to a flawed foreign policy, and a President released from a fatal disease on the day that he died.

But why did Reagan have this disease, Theo? As both you and I clearly see a powerful interaction between Reagan and the Deity why then did he die from Alzheimer’s? Why was he afflicted with a progressive disease which consuming his brain and memory reduced him in time to complete incoherency? Why did the Deity chose Alzheimer’s over some less malign disease that could have kept his mind and communication skills in tact? A disease that would have been less distressing to his family, friends and good, dear wife?

Or better still, why did the Gipper have to die from disease at all? As all who live must die with many passing into the night from the ravages of time why couldn’t the greatest President of our lifetime be one of them? Surely if he had died peacefully in his sleep on that same June day dying of simple old age it would have done nothing to diminish the prophetic meaning of that day. For that day would have fallen on the anniversary of the Six Day War and the 444th day of the Iraq War all the same. Why then did Reagan die of Alzheimer’s?

Could it be that this disease added something significant to that day? like another layer of meaning which the events of the Iraq War and Six Day War, together with the number 4-4-4, could not provide? I believe that it did, Theo. I believe that Reagan’s life taken as a whole from start to finish, from his birth into poverty to his success in films and politics to his disease and mournful end, are pieces of one cloth woven together with golden strands sown by the hand of God. In short, I believe and will show in what follows that this providential man died a providential death from a providential disease, not the product of luckless chance as many believe, but as rich in meaning for our time as the June 5th day on which he died.

For the day that the reaper came for the Gipper was extraordinary in more ways than one: apart from the double convergence of 4-4-4 linked to events in the Middle East, the day Reagan died corresponds most remarkably to the day ten years before when he went public with his disease; to the day when in a beautifully written letter full of sadness and faith he told us of his malady and coming mental darkness. For both days fell on the last day of the week, on the 5th day of the month and in a year that ends in the number 4-the most significant number in Reagan’s life (see note 14).

Indeed, Theo, by a designing God and not by chance it was the 44th week of the year that Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and made his disease known to the world; by design not chance he died on the 22nd week of the year a decade later. As number confirms truth and 22 is half 44 what could better symbolize the terrible effects of a disease that left the Gipper with half a functioning brain when he died?

But an even stronger sign of supernatural intervention is that the total number of months separating Reagan’s moving letter from his death and moving funeral are 115. What is extraordinary about this number is that it corresponds to November 5th or 11-5 the month and day the letter was published-prefiguring and pinpointing with uncanny precision the very month and day of Reagan’s death 115 months later (see note 15).

But there is more to indicate divine intervention in Reagan’s disease: if we count the number of days from the date the letter was issued to Reagan’s next birthday, when he turned 84, we get a total of 93 days, a number that corresponds to the age at which he died (see note 16).

There is more that I can add to this extraordinary complex of numeric marvels, Theo. But suffice it to say that as the Deity, anciently called the Great Mathematician, uses number to reveal His will and direct us to truth, this clearly indicates that Reagan’s Alzheimer’s was intelligently guided, ordered and designed and is no more meaningless, mindless and random in its cause than Reagan’s escape from an assassin’s bullet and his subsequent epoch making life as one of our three great liberator Presidents (see note 17).

By now it should be clear to you, Theo, that as Reagan’s astonishing life was supernaturally guided so too were his death and fatal disease. It should be clear that as the day Reagan died had oracular meaning for the war of diversion and bondage in Iraq and the deepening crisis that it’s causing for U.S. power in the region so did his disease add meaning to his death making its message more specific and significant. But specifically significant of what?

Before I attempt to answer this question it is important for you to know that the 40th President died on the 16th day of the 40th month of Bush’s presidency, and that as 16 is 4 squared, or 4x4, together with the number 40 we get another triple four sign signifying that Reagan’s death by Alzheimer’s had a special, specific focused meaning for the President and his policies.

Construed differently, and perhaps more convincingly, as the 40th President died in the 40th month of Bush’s presidency and 40+40=80 this became the age of the President’s father when Reagan was laid to rest 7 days after his death (see note 18). As the elder Bush belongs to the realist school of foreign policy this is a sign from the Deity urging us to face the ugly reality about Iraq, the predicament that we are in and the ruinous policies of the son to our strategic and security interests in the Middle East as Iran rushes ahead to build the bomb, grows in power and the region advances toward catastrophe.

Now since Alzheimer’s is a disease that destroys and deadens the brain, damaging the victim’s memory and reducing him to incoherency, do you see where this is going, Theo? Do you see what this means? Indeed, Reagan’s disease which ended his life on the 444th day of the Iraq War on the 40th month of George Bush’s presidency during a fierce presidential race with a Vietnam vet-who signified the destructive 60s and the Vietnam disaster-is a symbol of thoughtlessness, incoherency and weakness. As the Alzheimer’s victim loses touch with reality Reagan’s disease signifies a senseless, confused, inept foreign policy, a policy divorced from reality and forged by a President who being more concerned with nation building in Iraq (see note 19) than with the necessity to confront and defeat Iran has lost his historical memory of our failure in Vietnam, and the march of events leading up to World War II (see note 21). We must never forget that a winnable war was lost in Indochina, Theo, and that World War II was a preventable catastrophe or could have been greatly minimized as the historical record shows. For Reagan’s disease warns us that the past could happen again and is in fact happening now with our chief adversary Iran profoundly and frighteningly gaining in prestige; making progress in evil due to our ongoing blunders and overlong, senseless “occupation” of pro-Iran Iraq.

THE DEATH OF BOBBY KENNEDY

Theo, if John Kerry hadn’t run for the presidency that year and there were no candidate to remind us of Vietnam (see The Sign of John Kerry) Reagan’s death would have been warning enough, and not just because of his ominous disease. For the Six Day War wasn’t the only anniversary of note to fall on that day. For on that day 36 year’s before Democratic presidential hopeful Bobby Kennedy was gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan in a Los Angeles hotel for his support of Jewish Israel. Bobby Kennedy is a complex figure signifying Iraq, the Middle East and the Vietnam War, Theo. For this Kennedy was an anti-war candidate vigorously campaigning to bring an end to the war his brother began. Indeed, while campaigning in the city where his murdered brother won his party’s nomination, in a state that was governed by Reagan, Kennedy was shot in the head by a Palestinian madman who by an astonishing but meaningful twist of fate was born on March 19, 1944, fifty-nine years to the day when the war in Iraq began. Once again we’ve connected the dots, Theo, and completed another trinity with a third event on Reagan’s death related to the terrible, tragic, troublesome Middle East. Once again the signs point to the war in Iraq warning of a new and more terrible Vietnam ahead, a worse and more costly defeat, because of our refusal to face terrorist Iran and break its growing power.

As Reagan was a tower of strength in a predatory world of communists, fascists and autocratic thugs his succumbing to an enfeebling brain disease while we were fighting a war against terror in the Middle East mirrored our growing weakness and regional impotency due to a ruinous Iraq first policy (see note 22). Recall the great man that Reagan was and look how pathetically he ended his days, tragically ending it in forgetfulness and mental oblivion. Then look at what’s happening to America today in the Middle East due to a brain dead foreign policy that is alienating our Arab friends, empowering Iran and raising the hopes of our enemies that we are finished as a superpower and will soon be defeated (see note 23). Do you not see the analogy, Theo? The demise of Ronald Reagan, his death by brain disease, is a metaphor of America; it’s a symbol of our great country from the President on down losing its mind and memory, forgetting the horrors of Vietnam and Nazi Germany in its war with Islamofascism and radical, implacable, expansionary Iran.

Reagan’s death by Alzheimer’s was a sacrifice ordained by Almighty God and made on the alter of our nation’s security; his Alzheimer’s was a sacrificial disease designed to jog our memory and force us to remember, to help us recall the terrible past so as not to repeat its lessons and reap the whirlwind. Warning us of the dangers of forgetfulness, of who we are and what we did or failed to do as a nation, Reagan, who would come to forget everything, said in his stirring farewell address: “I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could ultimately result in an erosion of the American spirit.” The eradication of Reagan’s memory from Alzheimer’s was a dire warning to America about forgetfulness and loss of memory; a warning that this is happening now, happening today, happening to us in time of war with a bitter desperate, bloodthirsty enemy committed to suicide martyrdom as the highest religious ideal and test of faith; an enemy hell bent on eradicating our nation, reducing us to naught and replacing us as the world’s superpower. The impossible dream of madmen to be sure but in pursuit thereof millions could die as this regime’s thirst for blood and power are unquenchable.

As the 444th day of the Iraq War synchronized with the 37th anniversary of the Six Day War-translating into 444 months of historical time-Ronald Reagan’s timely death on this prophetic day signaled the way ahead for our nation in dealing with a resurgent, defiant, rising Iran. For as Israel preemptively struck its Arab enemies on that day, crushing their armies with its power, and we preemptively struck Saddam Hussein quickly defeating his mad regime so does stopping Iran from becoming a menacing nuclear power require a new preemptive war-not striking the mullahs as Israel struck Egypt-but striking them boldly as we hit Hussein, striking for regime change.

In short, Theo, we must break the chains that bind us to Iraq and end our military captivity; we must end our servitude to a pro-Iran state-the allies of enemies sworn to our destruction-and after Iraq and Afghanistan complete our mission in the Middle East by defeating fascist Iran. This I believe is the Will of Heaven, and the last great wish of Ronald Reagan.

Now if you think that my view of Reagan’s death is flawed and that my approach for dealing with Iran too severe; if you think that after 28 years of kidnapping and killing Americans, of failed diplomacy, embargoes, sanctions and threats that deterrence or regime change from within will suffice in curbing or toppling them, then read on my friend, read about the mother of all ominous signs, the ultimate sign that appeared in the sky directing us to crush this evil regime and expunge it from the earth. Read about the Columbia Shuttle Disaster.


NOTES

1. The Iran Hostage Crisis began on November 4, 1979. Reagan was elected President 52 weeks later on November 4, 1980. Oddly, 52 was the number of hostages that were in captivity at the time. Another odd coincidence was the number of days falling between Election Day and Reagan’s inauguration. As this was 77 it coincided with the number of lives Reagan saved when employed as a lifeguard for 7 years. 77 was also Reagan’s age when he left office as one of history’s great liberators saving millions from Soviet tyranny.

2. Amazingly, we can derive the complete date of Independence Day July 4, 1776 from the mysterious number 444. For as 444 is a factor of the number 1776 it is also a multiple of the number 74 which signifies the date 7-4 or July 4th the month and day when the Founders declared independence, hence: 74x6=444.

3. The Six Day War began on June 5, 1967 37 years before Reagan‘s death. 37x12=444 months.

4. June 5, 2004 (a leap year) was the 157th day of the year. March 19, 2003 was the 78th day of the year. 78 days subtracted from 365 days leaves us with 287 days. 287 days plus the 157 days equals 444.

A more precise way of calculating this is as follows: George Bush ordered the commencement of Shock and Awe on 3-19-2003 at 10:30 PM EST. Ronald Reagan passed away on 6-5-2004 at 1:09 PM PCT (4:09 EST). This gives us 444 days, 17 hours and 39 minutes.

5. What I mean by “Iran is winning the U.S. war in Iraq” is that the mullahs have become the true beneficiaries of the war at the expense of our security interests in the region, as Henry Kissinger has said.

When Ahmadinejad said some time ago that “I feel sorry for George Bush” this was not a rhetorical statement to humiliate the President; on the contrary, it sprung from an understanding that the President’s fixation on Iraq and obsession with democratic nation building-the Wilsonian idealism warned by the brain seizure of Tim Johnson (see The Sign of Time Johnson)-would in time prove ruinous to U.S. interests and the Bush presidency with Iran reaping a strategic windfall. Indeed, what we have witnessed in Bush’s second term is the castration and Carterization of his presidency. Not since Jimmy Carter has Iran done more damage to a U.S. President. Not since Carter has a U.S. President been more feckless in striking back.

6.The Iran-Contra arms for hostages deal began in late August of 1985 when Israel mediated the transfer of hundreds of TOW missiles to Iran for the U.S.

Ironically, it was the anti-Western crimes of Mr. Maliki’s Islamic al-Dawa Party, the leading Shia faction in the pro-Iranian United Iraqi Alliance, that started the Iran-Contra arms for hostages affair in the 1980s. For this sordid business began when Hezbollah kidnapped several dozen Europeans and seven U.S. citizens in revenge for the Kuwaiti authority arrest of 17 al-Dawa Party members for the terrorist bombings of U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. It is more than just ironic that Iraq’s current Prime Minister should come from al-Dawa, the principle cause of Iran-Contra. It is another telling sign confirming our Iranian captivity in Iraq; a sign of our senseless servitude to an anti-Western government of Shiite extremists whose world view is closer to Iran‘s evil plans than Washington‘s vision of the good.

7. Washington Post reporter David Ignatius wrote (8-30-07) that Iran covertly sent thousands of Iranians into Iraq to fraudulently vote in the election and spent $11 million per week on media and political operations in support of the pro-Iranian Shiite candidates that eventually came to power. A secret CIA plan to counter Iranian influence and support moderate Shiite and Sunni candidates was killed by Nancy Pelosi and Condolezza Rice on grounds that it would be an unethical manipulation of the election. This foolish decision by Pelosi and Rice was perhaps the war’s Walter Cronkite moment ensuring an Iranian political triumph in the U.S. war in Iraq.

8. From the Tet Offensive in 1968 to the first Iraq election 37 years later was exactly 444 months. Moreover, on this same date in 1933 72 years before Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany setting the stage for the greatest catastrophe in human history.

9. This visit, starting March 2 and lasting several days, was productive of gas, oil, electrical and other agreements with Iran, with Ahmadinejad granting Iraq a one billion dollar interest free loan. This visit furthered Iraq along the path of economic subservience to Iran and was an Iraqi slap in the face to U.S. efforts to isolate Iran and punish it economically. In fact, Iraq’s economic ties with Iran may be in violation of UN sanctions.

What was astonishing and most revealing about Ahmadinejad’s Baghdad visit was the minimal security he needed in contrast to the heavy security blanket used by Bush, Cheney and other U.S. officials when visiting Iraq. As Diane West said: “Iranian supplied bombs and rockets endanger U.S. Presidents, not Iranian ones.” This shows the extent of Iran’s responsibility for the violence plaguing the country making Ahmadinejad‘s visit all the more grating.

10. In 2007 the Treasury Department blacklisted Iran’s Bank Melli for funneling money to terrorists groups and financing its illegal uranium enrichment program. Shortly thereafter Iraq’s government permitted Iran to open a branch of Bank Melli in Baghdad thus hurting America’s efforts to fight and win the war on terror and stop Iran‘s nuclear program.

Furthermore, according to Asian Times writer Paul McGlynn (4-1-2008) as of March 20, 2008 the Bush administration ordered the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury to issue an advisory to the international banking community charging all Iranian banks with money laundering practices and the funding of terrorist groups. This act of economic and financial warfare is an attempt to shut Iran out of the international financial system and cripple its economy. As justified as this is and as damaging as it may prove it will not be enough to stop the martyr mad apocalyptic mullahs.

11. Bush’s trip last January to the Middle East was a victory for Iran and showed the world just how impotent and marginalized the U.S. is in the region. For the President failed in his mission to persuade Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE to join the U.S. in a military and economic alliance to contain and isolate Iran in the region. In his pro-democracy speech given at Abu Dhabi Bush’s warning about Iran “seeking to intimidate its neighbors with ballistic missiles and bellicose rhetoric” was heard by Arab leaders who were already cowering before Iran because of America’s failure to stop its missile deployment and nuclear weapons programs.

12. According to Jeremiah 10,000 Jewish leaders were held hostage by Babylon when the defeated Jewish people were forced into exile and taken captive.

13.

He= 5

Gimel= 3

Lamed= 30

Vau= 6

Tav= 400

444

14. Reagan issued his Alzheimer’s letter on Saturday November 5, 1994; he died on Saturday June 5, 2004. When Reagan learned about his illness I can imagine him turning to his tearful wife kissing her brow and saying: ‘Don’t worry, honey. I’m in God’s hands and there’s a good reason for this.’

As for the number 4 being Reagan’s most significant number or signature number consider the following: Reagan was the 4th and final member of a family of two parents and two sons; he married Nancy, the love of his life, on March 4, 1953; he read Whittaker Chamber’s “Witness” in the 4th decade of his life; in the 64th year of the 20th century (the cube number of 4 or 4x4x4) he gave his famous speech “A Time For Choosing” (a title composed of 4 words) supporting Barry Goldwater‘s presidential bid, instantly making him a leader in the Conservative movement. Reagan was elected President on the 4th day of November and was sworn in as 40th President on the 444th and final day of the Iran Hostage Crisis. Moreover, his historic meeting with Gorbachev at Reykjavik on October 11, 1986, the turning point of the Cold War, started on the last day of the 40th week of the year-the number of his presidency.


15. November 5, 1994 to June 5, 2004 is exactly 9 years and 7 months or 115 months to the day. Moreover, if I count up the date of Reagan’s death as single digits and taking the product multiply it by the first two numbers (6-5 or 65) we get the number 1105 or November 5, hence: 6+5+2+4=17x65=1105.

16. From November 5, 1994 to February 6, 1995 is 93 days. Just as remarkable and very moving and beautiful is that the number of days that separated Reagan’s death from his last wedding anniversary on March 4, 2004 also numbered 93. But even more extraordinary is that from Reagan’s 93rd birthday on February 6, 2004 to his death was exactly 120 days: 120 = 40+40+40 adding to the triple 4 phenomenon converging on this date. This is another indication that the Deity was overshadowing Reagan’s death and using it as an vehicle to warn America about the gravity of the situation in the Middle East and the perilous but avoidable consequences ahead caused by our foolish policies in Iraq and dangerous weakness toward Iran.

17. The three great liberators were Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Reagan.

18. On June 12, 2004 the day George H. W. Bush turned 80 Ronald Reagan was laid to rest. If the elder Bush had beaten Reagan in the 1980 primaries and went on to defeat Jimmy Carter it is unlikely that he would have achieved Reagan’s feat of ending the Cold War. Nevertheless, Bush’s superb diplomatic skills and realism were needed in the aftermath of the Reagan years to complete the job his former boss began and set in motion. It is remarkable, meaningful and touchingly symbolic that the body of Ronald Reagan was laid to rest on President Bush’s 80th birthday as if to honor the accomplishment of his successor in presiding over the death of the Soviet Empire. Amazingly, and not by chance, in 1991, the year the Soviet Union fell, Reagan himself, when Bush was President, was 80 years old.

19. In a New York Times article Richard Pearle rightly said that as soon as Baghdad fell “Iraq should have been handed over to the Iraqis for nation building” rather than the administration doing it themselves. This, of course, is wisdom in hindsight but it‘s still not too late to realize the futility of this well-meaning project. The war on terror should not directly be a war for democratic nation building but for demoralizing and defeating the enemy and destroying his belief in the historic mission of Islam: that it is destined by God and history to become the unifying religion of humanity, and that those who take up the sword in its cause are certain to prevail.

21. As Reagan was laid to rest 7 days after his death on the birthday of George H. W. Bush (the last World War II vet in history to serve as President) so 7 days before his death on May 29 George W. Bush dedicated the National World War II Memorial in Washington. This is another sign of the cataclysmic mistakes that his son is making in Iraq, mistakes that could have destructive global consequences if they continue.

22. As the “freedom deficit” in the Middle East was believed by the administration to be the primary cause of 9/11 and jihadist terror against our country the invasion of Iraq was principally seen as a war for democratizing the region as an antidote to jihadism. This put the cart before the horse. Democracy must first defeat Islamic imperialism, the belief in Islam’s global destiny, the soul and substance of Jihadism, before Moslems will accept democratic principles as God’s chosen system of government for mankind.

23. “Brain dead” are harsh words to use but mild compared to words like “certifiably insane” used by Washington Times columnist Diane West in her Town Hall column “Iran’s Betrayal Leaves U.S. Suffering Pulp Fiction.” Insanity is a U.S. administration fighting against Islamofascism while supporting a sectarian Shiite government that is complicit with our Jihadist enemies in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza. Look at it this way: the democratically elected Maliki government-despised by the Arab Sunni world-is allied to the mullahs and Hezbollah. The mullahs work relentlessly to Lebanize Iraq and destroy its young democracy while Hezbollah works to do the same in Lebanon.

Combine this with Maliki’s support for Hamas and its war of annihilation against democratic Israel and what we have is a U.S. backed government of Islamofascist thugs wearing democratic masks. In truth, the Maliki government’s regard for democracy is no higher than Hitler’s when he was voted Chancellor of Germany, which ironically occurred on January 30, 1933, 72 years to the day when Iraq held its first democratic election.

In short, terms like “brain dead” and “insane” don’t begin to describe the administration’s Iraq policy-a policy that is profoundly empowering Iran at enormous expense to our national security by allowing it to become the nuclear armed hegemon of the Middle East.

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HILLARY CLINTON AND JOHN MCCAIN: THE SECRET MEANING OF THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS (SECOND REVISION)

Dear Theo:

When Whittaker Chambers underwent his remarkable conversion from an atheistic Communist working as a spy in the Soviet underground to a believer in God, country and our free way of life he came to the understanding that God not man is the decisive force in human history; that God is the shaper of human destiny, the mover of events, the intelligent cause of the world and that man, though not a mindless puppet, is in His good creative hands. Yet when his conversion was complete he held a grim view of the future that clashed with his new found faith: believing Communism would prevail in its ideological struggle with the Free World-that the Soviets had a will and ruthlessness for victory that was lacking in the West-Chambers believed he had joined the losing side of history.

At the time I believe Chambers was correct and that he did chose the losing side; that Communism with its faith in the omnipotent state to bring heaven on earth and brotherhood to man was in fact winning the day; and that if nothing had changed, or better still if Chambers himself had changed nothing, today we might be living in an age of darkness dominated by the Soviet State.

But Chambers did something that saved us from that fate, Theo: in 1952 he published his best selling book Witness an autobiographical account of his conversion to freedom, a book that was read by a 41 year old actor named Ronald Reagan. That was a decisive moment in the history of the Cold War, Theo, for it changed the thinking of the future President; it made him aware of the colossal challenge that we faced from without and within our country, and in time he was changed from a New Deal Democrat with a religious faith in government to a firm anti-Communist conservative Republican with faith in the goodness and justice of God and the virtues of the American people to endure. In short, my friend, once Ronald Reagan read Chambers book we were no longer on the losing side of history; for the spirit of liberty under Reagan's heroic leadership would be triumphantly renewed and the West would prevail.

But once again we find ourselves on the losing side of an epic struggle with a totalitarian enemy, an enemy every bit as determined to destroy us as did the freedom hating Communists. An enemy with a religious vision of victory shared by millions, a radical religion that worships a God of terror and blood who demands the surrender of humanity and that all men be his subjects and slaves. This is not the God of our democratic faith, Theo, not the God of Liberty who wills what is best for his creatures, who wills that all men live in dignity and peace in a state that exists to keep them free.

Just as many in Whittaker Chambers' day were blind to the growing threat of Communism so is it today with the rising threat of militant Islam and especially the menace of fascist Iran who is leading the violent struggle to restore the greatness of Islam and is winning in its conflict with America in the strategically vital Middle East.

With the successful troop surge in Iraq blinding many on the Right to larger regional and strategic realities i.e., to our falling prestige in the Middle East due mostly to our weakness in facing Iran; and with the Left sounding the call of retreat from the region-and for unconditional talks with Iran-there is clearly a time of crisis ahead for our nation, my friend.

Indeed, the presidential campaign of John Kerry, the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi and the ominous brain seizure of Senator Johnson were three prophetic signs warning us of this trouble, Theo; warning that we are close to suffering a strategic collapse in the Middle East more colossal, costly and humanly tragic than our failure in Vietnam three decades ago.

But there is a forth sign, Theo, another sign of danger coming from the Left and linked to the 60s foreshadowing these things; a sign that is in everyone's face but whose oracular meaning is yet to be known. And that sign is the presidential run of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the subject of this letter.

As Clinton is now 60 years old, and will remain so until 9 days short of Election Day, she is the Leftist wife of the first U.S. President to emerge from the 60s counterculture generation-a man who held the military in contempt, decimated our intelligence agencies, treated terrorists as mere felons (pardoning some for political gain) and saw foreign policy as an extension of the domestic sphere. As our nation is at war with a desperate, vicious radical enemy hell bent on acquiring nuclear weapons to make Islam powerful again, a second Clinton presidency would be ruinous to the country and for the war in the Middle East-for the wife would fare no better than her mate as president and commander in chief (see note 1). But the sign of Hillary Clinton is not a warning to the nation about the consequences of a second Clinton presidency, Theo-you need not be a seer to see the damage this would cause. In fact, this sign has less to do with Hillary's presidential bid than with the extraordinary day when she was born-a day made meaningful by her candidacy and elevated into a prophetic event offering insight into the present danger and what we must do to prevail. For on that day, that half forgotten day of October 26, 1947 an event took place in the Middle East which had no meaning for us then but which now has great significance. For as Hillary was emerging from her mother's womb British forces were packing their gear and withdrawing from Iraq leaving that strife torn country after a military occupation of 6 years (see note 2).

This astonishing convergence of Hillarys birth with British forces leaving Iraq is not a meaningless coincidence, Theo; random chance is not at work here-it never is when our nation's future is at stake. Now that Hillary and her rival for her party's nomination are pledging to end the Iraq occupation by the end of 2009-THE WAR'S 6TH YEAR-one thing is clear: whether she wins or loses, rises or falls, Hillary's candidacy, like the lost campaign of John Kerry, is an oracle in motion with a message for the nation. A message giving us direction in the "War on Terror" and the limits we must set to the occupation of Iraq if we are to triumph in our conflict with Iran and prevent a nuclear catastrophe.

Let's look at this phenomenon more closely, Theo, to see if we can learn what Providence has in mind for us in the trying days ahead: Clinton and Obama began their campaigns by pledging to end the long Iraq War and bring our troops home by 2013-the end of their first terms. Then perhaps under pressure from Governor Richardson-a popular candidate with the antiwar Left who vowed to terminate the war by the end of his first year-Obama adjusted his pledge to terminate the occupation by the war's 6th year, with Hillary following suit (see note 3).

Whatever be the fate of Clinton's historic campaign, whether it dies in June or survives and fights on to victory over Barack, one thing is clear: when Hillary announced her candidacy in 2007 the day of her birth was raised to the level of a prophetic event that was lifted to a higher more specific plane of meaning when, paralleling the 6 year duration of the British occupation, she promised to end the Iraq War in its 6th year. There isnt a chance in a million that this is happenstance, Theo; it is too precise and exact in the analogy of events (the British and U.S. occupations of Iraq) and in the number of years (6 to be exact) to be anything but supernaturally decreed.

Whittaker Chambers was right, my friend: God is the decisive force in human history, and Hillary Clinton is His unwitting agent in delivering a timetable of withdrawal from Iraq, a divinely inspired deadline with a limit of under 6 full years to remove our troops in accord with the British schedule of 60 years ago. For the 6th year of the U.S. occupation ending in March, 2010 is our countdown to crisis and potential disaster with Iran, Theo; it is a timetable for a strategic retreat, not to cut and run from the region like Clinton, Obama and the Democrats want to do, but to radically change our mission in the region; a mission to get out of Iraq and into Iran; a mission to topple the mullahs before they cross the nuclear threshold and become a menacing nuclear state. This is the true meaning of Hillary's campaign, the hidden reason why she's running, God's message to the President and nation before it's too late (see note 4) and the nuclear abyss opens its terrible jaws.

The warning signs couldn't be clearer, Theo: Kerry's run for President at age 60, Pelosi at age 66 becoming the 60th House Speaker, Tim Johnsons brain seizure 15 days before his 60th birthday and now Hillary at 60 contending with the 60s born Batack Obama for her party's nomination (see note 5). But it doesnt end there, Theo. For when we add to this surge of sixties a 60 year old President starting the troop surge in Iraq (Bush was 60 at the time), instead of surging our troops toward Iran where they are urgently needed, what we have is a frightful indication that the destructive, insidious, terrible 60s are slowly creeping upon us, coming back to work its havoc in the geo-political sphere with our second strategic defeat in 33 years.

Indeed, my friend, returning from the past is LBJ in George Bush-showing less resolve in facing Tehran than did LBJ in facing Hanoi (see note 6); Acheson and the Wise Men in Baker and the Iraq Study Group-advising useless negotiations with implacable hate driven murderous enemies; Westmoreland in Petraeus, winning battles in the field while on the path to defeat; Tim Johnson, indicative of Wilsons ruinous idealism; and the two Vietnams (South and North) in Shia Iraq and revolutionary Iran. You can even see something of the Viet Cong guerrillas in the various insurgents Iran employs to kill our troops in Iraq and elsewhere.

As 60 is a number with special meaning for our culture, Theo, symbolizing social turmoil, moral collapse and failure of power in foreign affairs it is fitting that when Nixon concluded his disgraceful peace with North Vietnam he was 18 days into his 60th year (see note 6). Similarly, when the President delivered his surge speech to the nation on January 10, 2007 he was 188 days into his 60th year one day after the 94th anniversary of Nixon's birthday. And speaking of Nixon 15 days before the speech his successor Gerald Ford died-the man who was President when the reckless spirit of the 60s reached its most destructive moment and a cowardly antiwar Congress let Saigon fall to the Reds unleashing a tsunami of death. Unfortunately, Theo, it is happening again: we are on the path to defeat in the Middle East with a new and more terrible Vietnam around the bend.

But we are a nation under God's watchful eye, Theo, and to keep Vietnam and its terrible lessons painfully before us, to prevent another catastrophe if we dare to be wise, Providence has raised up John McCain, a scarred, disfigured Vietnam vet, as a presidential contender following John Kerry to warn us by his candidacy of the perils ahead (see The Oracle of John Kerry).

Think about it, Theo, and focus on my words: before we began the "War on Terror" and invaded Iraq in 2003 we never had a Vietnam vet, a battlefield vet, for either a presidential or vice presidential nominee: Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bush II, Benson, Quayle, Lieberman, Kemp and Dick Cheney never saw action on the battlefield (see note 7). Bush I and Bob Dole were veterans of World War II. None of them served and fought in Vietnam, Theo. But now in the post-9/11 era since the start of two foreign wars we have a second White House nominee who fought in Vietnam as a living sign to warn us of coming failure and defeat in the explosive Middle East.

Whether John McCain is a man of destiny favored by heaven to be commander in chief is unknown to me Theo; though no candidate in my view is more qualified and fit to be our war time leader we won't know until Election Day what God and the people have in store for him (see my John McCain: the Mantles of Reagan and JFK, for signs that suggest a McCain win in November).

Suffice it to say that McCain signifies the Vietnam Era on its patriotic, pro-war, anti-Communist side. He is the antithesis of John Kerry-every bit the warrior hero that Kerry pretended to be, with a past of sacrifice, service and suffering that could only serve to inspire awe and advance his campaign. McCain in effect is the anti-sixties candidate unapologetic about his service in the war (because it was a noble cause) and his devastating bombing runs over Hanoi (which he said were mostly ill conceived)-which brings us to the astonishing day when the Reds shot him down and took him captive. I use the word "astonishing" Theo not just because McCain survived that brutal ordeal, and the five and a half agonizing years that followed; but because given to us that terrible day were a cluster of prophetic signs with meaning for our time and the looming crisis with Iran.

For incredibly and ominously, Theo, that awful dark day, the worst in McCains history, amazingly knits together his Vietnam ordeal with Iraq, Iran and the Middle East of today. For McCain was shot down by a surface to air missile on October 26, 1967 20 years after the retreat of British forces from Iraq when Hillary Clinton was in college celebrating her 20th birthday. And on that day when the downed pilot's parents learned of their son's cruel fate they were preparing for a dinner engagement held at the home of the Iranian ambassador to the UK (see note 9). Amazingly, Theo, the Iranian ambassador at the time represented the regime of Shah Reza Pahlevi the former ruler of Iran (overthrown by Khomeine) who was celebrating his 48th birthday that day. For the Shah was born October 26, 1919.

Iraq, Iran and the Vietnam War conjoined by a date made significant by two candidates running for the highest office in the land; running while we are mired in Iraq, like we were in Vietnam, fighting the terrorist proxies of an enemy that glorifies self-destruction, is growing in power and threatening Jewish Israel with nuclear extinction from ideological necessity.

As the national spotlight is on McCain we must overturn every stone in uncovering facts about his life that illuminate the present crisis and shock us into recognition of the danger we are in. Two such illuminating facts, Theo, are McCain's 13th birthday and the number of days he spent in prison as both relate to nuclear events that are ominous for the future of the region and the world. For on August 29, 1949 as John McCain was celebrating his 13th birthday the Russians exploded their first atomic bomb in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, a predominantly Moslem country in Central Asia.

Moreover, though McCain's last bombing run and subsequent prison years have nothing directly to do with nuclear weapons yet there is a hidden, unseen indirect connection between them. For as I was sitting at my desk typing out these lines I got the idea, I know not how, of adding the total number of McCain's prison days to the start of the Iraq War. As McCain was in chains for 1,967 days (see note 9) I proceeded to add this number to the starting day of Shock and Awe, and upon completing my calculation it shocked me to discover that it took me to the significant date of August 6, 2008 the 63rd anniversary of Hiroshima: the first dropping of the atom bomb in war (see note 11). The detonation of an atom bomb in a Moslem country and the dropping of this bomb on Hiroshima, John McCain signifies a nuclear event in the Middle East an event that is likely to come if we do nothing to stop the theocratic killers of Iran from weaponizing their nuclear program and getting their murdering hands on the bomb.

Indeed, Theo as the Clinton and McCain campaigns have turned October 26th into a meaningful date connecting Iraq and Iran to the war in Vietnam it may also be indicative of a surprise nuclear attack on Israel by the vicious anti-Semites in Tehran. For portentously on October 26, 2005 the mad murdering mullahs hosted an international meeting in Tehran, a congress of death, which was called The World Without Zionism, calling for the destruction of the State of Israel as heavens absolute will. As the mullahs have threatened Israel with nuclear extinction, dreaming of a holocaust to match Hitler's horrific crimes, it is ominous for Israels existence and the peace of the Middle East that Ahmadinejad was sworn in as Irans 6th President on August 6, 2005 the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Adding to my alarm Theo is that the date October 26 also marks the end of the Yom Kippur War which began 20 days before with a surprise attack on Israel. (see note 12).

Take Iran's monstrous threat to eradicate Israel very seriously, Theo. For the mullahs, Israels total destruction is a theological necessity demanded by God, history and their revolutionary destiny to unify Islam under their banner of martyrdom and blood (see note 12). For the mullahs believe that the Islamic world will see Israels incineration as an infallible sign that God favors their faith and system of government, and that millions of converts will flock to their cause and turn them into an Islamic superpower. This is the nightmare of mass destruction that the mullahs of death dream of and pray for in their desperate Nazi-like quest to restore Islam as a great world power.

Theo, the candidacies of John Kerry and John McCain in back to back presidential campaigns is a warning that our wasteful occupation of Iraq and weakness in facing Iran is turning our Mid East policy into a new Vietnam-the defeat of our noble cause to bring democracy to the region and win the war against Islamofascism. For when we add the 1,967 days of McCain's incarceration to September 11, 2001 it brings us to the calendar date of January 30, 2006 the 38th anniversary of the Tet Offensive and the first anniversary of Iraq's democratic election when a coalition of pro-Iranian factions were swept into power with the help of Iranian backing and funds.

What we have here Theo are divine clues given by the Deity and scattered about in the world, a world with an underlying unified order, an order which we perceive with our limited minds in bits and pieces of reality making it seem chaotic, unguided and confused. Men and nations have free will to choose the different paths that lead to good; or they can choose unwisely and be utter fools and instead tragically suffer their way to the good making what is challenging colossally difficult as we learned in World War II. From such choices spring great conflicts, turmoil and horrific wars and the preventable disaster in the Middle East-a disaster using nuclear arms- that is now taking form.

We have seen, my friend, that John Kerry's presidential run was emblematic of Iraq and the Middle East becoming the New Indochina and Vietnam; that Nancy Pelosi becoming House Speaker signified the failure of the surge to stop the rise of nuclear Iran (the new North Vietnam), that the misguided idealism driving the surge was indicated by Tim Johnsons illness and that Hillary Clinton's birth and White House campaign points to the necessity of leaving Iraq by the end of next year if we are to stop Irans brotherhood of death from getting the bomb.

Hillary Clinton is the last of three ominous signs coming from the Left warning of a looming crisis ahead for the war and our mission in the Middle East. And apart from John McCain another sign was given coming from the Right, coming from a man whose rise to power began in the 60s and changed the course of human history. A man who died on a day richer in prophetic meaning than Kerry's 18th birthday and the days when Pelosi and Clinton were born. And that man, that great man, the man inspired by Whittaker Chambers, was Ronald Wilson Reagan.

 

NOTES

1. It's no secret that in his wife's campaign Bill Clinton is seeking to be the first President since FDR to have more than two terms in office. Amazingly, this is signified by his birthday vis a vis George Bush: as the 42nd President wants to succeed the 43rd in becoming number 44 through his wife it is no accident that Clinton, born August 19, 1946, was born 44 days after Bush.

It is also interesting to note, Theo, that alphabetically Hillary Clinton is the 22nd senator listed on the Senates call role and that John McCain is the 66th. Amazingly, 44 is the difference between them.

2. The British occupation of Iraq lasted from April 18 1941 to October 26,1947: 6 years, 6 months and 8 days.

3. Obama set a date certain for withdrawal by the end of 2009, while Hillary made this date conditional and vowed to start the pullout within the first 60 days of her presidency. This gives us the number 60 again which is a sign of catastrophe.

4. Ironically, October 26, 1947 fell on the 43rd week of the year, the number of Bushs presidency indicating to the President that the time has come to leave Iraq and that staying the course is a disastrous option.

5. Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 four months before the start of the Vietnam War which began on December 11, 1961 on John Kerrys 18th birthday.

6. In The Sign of Tim Johnson many analogies were drawn between George Bush and Woodrow Wilson. What I didnt say was that on April 6, 1917, when Wilson declared war on Germany, he was 99 days into his 60th year. This is another prophetic indication that staying the course in Iraq will have horrendous worldwide consequences. Or that in leaving the region precipitously like Obama and the democrats want to do we will have to return to fight a greater and more costly war.

7. On January 27, 1973 when the Paris Peace Accords were signed President Nixon who was born earlier that month in 1913 was 60 years old-giving us the number that is symbolic of the era that gave us our greatest foreign policy defeat.

As for Nixons peace with Hanoi being disgraceful, I say this because it allowed North Vietnamese troops to occupy the South. In fairness to Nixon, however, it was probably the least of many bad options.

8. Al Gore was an army reporter in Vietnam and never saw little or no combat. However, Theo, John McCain is now the third Vietnam vet to run as a nominee for President. McCains candidacy is the third and last warning before disaster strikes and the consequences of Bushs preoccupation with Iraq at the expense of enabling Iran fully and horribly manifests itself.

9. Robert Timberg, John McCain: An American Odyssey, p.84.

10. McCain was shot down over Vietnam and taken prisoner on October 26, 1967 and was released on March 15, 1973 for a total of 5 years, 4 months and 17 days, or 1,967 days. The 1,967 days McCain spent in prison strangely corresponds to 1967 the year his imprisonment began.

11. Shock and Awe began March 19, 2003 (stateside). When 1967 days are added to this date it brings the calendar to August 6, 2008, the anniversary of Hiroshima.

12. The Yom Kippur War was started on October 6, 1973 with a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria.

13: The mullahs radicalism and zeal to spread their Shiite faith and theocratic government across the Moslem world is reflected in the tulip that is emblazoned on its national flag (a symbol of martyrdom) and the words Allah Akbar (God is great) that are madly inscribed 11 times above and below the tulip. As the mullahs in collaboration with Hezbollah invented and religiously blessed the menace of suicide martyrdom this flag mirrors the regimes commitment to terror, murder and death as a tactic for success in terrorizing the nations into submission and establishing Islams rule on earth.

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THE SIGN OF TIM JOHNSON: GEORGE BUSH, WOODROW WILSON AND THE FATE OF THE MIDDLE EAST (FINAL REVISION)

Dear Theo

Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota had been living for nearly sixty years with an undetected birth defect of tangled blood vessels in his head that caused him no problem until one cold winter day, on December 13th, when a blood vessel broke giving him a life threatening brain injury-something very rare for a man his age (see note 1). Suddenly this modest low key little known senator was thrust into the national spotlight because his death or resignation could have ceded control of the Senate back to Republicans.

When I heard about the pro-war senator’s seizure (see note 2) I wouldn’t have given it a moment’s thought except that it occurred during a teleconference with reporters on Iraq on a day that fell on the third anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s arrest, and, most importantly, when President Bush was meeting with defense officials at the Pentagon to discuss his new surge strategy for Iraq (see note 3).

As I read up on the senator I was amazed to discover that he was born on December 28, 1946 a date which had historical significance as it fell on the 90th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s birth and in the year that George Bush was born.

As I continued my studies I also learned that of the 26 senators South Dakota sent to Washington two were named Johnson with the first having served during the Wilson Administration (see note 4). But more intriguing was the discovery that George Bush wasn’t the only man serving as President when a Pope named Benedict became pontiff of the Catholic Church. For this distinction also fell to Woodrow Wilson who witnessed the elevation of Giovanni Chiesa as Benedict XV in 1914, the year World War I began (see note 5).

But a coincidence that truly astonished me was the discovery that in Wilson’s sixth year in office the Democratic Party-due to Wilson’s policies on the League of Nations and the war-lost control of both Houses of Congress to Republicans giving them a two seat edge in the Senate. For this paralleled the Democrats’ victory in Bush’s sixth year due mostly to political corruption and the handling of the Iraq War (see note 6).

It then became clear to me that comparisons of George Bush to Harry Truman made by some on the Right and to fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson made by many on the Left were inadequate. That of his 42 predecessors the President that Bush most closely resembled in his moralism, democratic idealism and religious faith that bolsters this view, is the invincibly intransigent and tragic Woodrow Wilson. Indeed, it became clear that while Wilson and Bush were perfectly justified in sending troops to fight abroad-the one to Europe in World War I and the other to Afghanistan and Iraq in the current world war-yet what the League of Nations was to Wilson and his party the Iraq War had become for George Bush and Republicans. In other words, just as Wilson set out to make the world safe for democracy and prevent a second world war by using the League to short cut history and democratize the world, so too did Bush by invading Iraq and ousting its dictator seek to make the terror spewing Middle East safe for our democracy by using the model of a democratic Iraq to liberalize the region.

Moreover, when Wilson’s call for U.S. membership in the League was stiffly resisted by the Republican led Senate, and Bush’s policy to stay in Iraq was similarly resisted by Democrats both men dug in and refused to compromise. Contrary to expectations they redoubled their efforts and surged ahead: an isolated Wilson with a national speaking tour to reverse public opinion-that ruined his health and presidency-and Bush with a troop surge that has done nothing to reverse America’s growing isolation and irrelevancy in the Middle East, reconcile Iraqis and turn their government into a stable, unified, pro-American liberal state (see note 7).

Indeed, Theo, George Bush is the Woodrow Wilson of our time an incarnation of his towering idealism with the former dealing with a crisis rooted in the latter’s momentous decision to intervene in World War I (see note 8).

As I mentioned above, Tim Johnson was born on December 28, 1946 90 years from the day Woodrow Wilson was born and five months from the birth of George Bush. This makes Johnson a point of convergence linking the fates of Bush and Wilson, a nexus and a warning sign unequivocally and marvelously confirmed by the birth dates of these three men. Incredible as it is when we take the numbers in Johnson’s, Wilson’s and Bush’s birth dates and count them up as single digits the product in all three cases is the same two digit number-a number which has oracular significance, hence:

Tim Johnson: December 28, 1946 or

1+2+2+8+1+9+4+6=33

Woodrow Wilson: December 28, 1856 or

1+2+2+8+1+8+5+6=33

George W. Bush: July 6, 1946 or

7+6+1+9+4+6=33

In light of Johnson’s near fatal illness these convergent numerical signs indicate that George Bush embodies Wilson’s democratic idealism at its utopian worst and most destructive; it makes it clear that his unrealistic policies in Iraq are driving us to exhaustion and defeat in the Middle East and that this must radically change before it’s too late and disaster strikes. Indeed, as saving Iraq’s worthless, corrupt, sectarian government was the thrust behind the surge with good reason Johnson suffered a brain hemorrhage when he did-not before or after Bush’s meeting at the Pentagon with his generals but precisely at the moment when he was there discussing his desperate new plan to win the war (see note 9). While this plan was intended to rescue Iraq’s nascent democracy from collapse all it has done is slow it down, prolong its agony and delay the evil day of a sectarian showdown.

Truly, Theo, Johnson’s illness, his bleeding of the brain and physical collapse on his senate room floor, were emblematic of the hemorrhaging of our troops and treasure in Iraq, of the war bleeding us politically and militarily, of a total foreign policy collapse if we don’t change course; a collapse possibly leading to a regional war involving radical Iran and the use of nuclear weapons. For the number 33 also signifies Harry Truman, the 33rd President, the commander in chief who a-bombed Japan into submission and was President when Bush and Johnson were born.

Indeed, the President, who launched a global war against Islamic terror with the noblest aspirations of wanting to democratize Iraq and the region now blindly serves the low narrow sectarian interests of a militant Shiite government complicit with Iran in supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and in weakening our power and prestige in the region (see note 11). It reminds one of Wilson coming to Versailles with his vision of world peace expecting to save mankind from war then caving into Clemenceau’s thirst for revenge in bludgeoning Germany into making war reparations as the price for getting his League-thus setting in motion the next great war, the war that Wilson fearfully foresaw and blindly tried to stop.

Imagine for a moment a sick Woodrow Wilson defying his doctors and caring wife and going on a nation wide tour to alter public opinion on his lost cause. Think about this pitiable man pushing himself to the limit in the service of his League then suffering a paralyzing stroke after collapsing from fatigue and bitterly achieving nothing. What happened to Wilson over the League is happening to America in the Middle East over Iraq, the unintended consequences of good and noble intentions pursuing an impossible nation building dream. The president’s policies have led to collapse, paralysis and marginalization vis a vis our moderate Arab friends who cowering before the rising power of the mullahs refuse to join us in a coalition to curb, contain and isolate them. As I said in The Rise of Nuclear Iran: Arab leaders’ fear of Iran is greater than their confidence in us to protect them. A consequence of shattering 1000 years of Sunni rule over the Arab world and toppling Saddam Hussein while doing nothing about Iran and the spread of its toxic influence. That is why Tim Johnson had his seizure that day, Theo; it was a warning about the destructive geo-political effects of the President’s Wilsonian plans and policies in Iraq-his nation building dreams that are woefully out of synch with reality, the reality of an ancient sectarian clash that has no military or political solution, that security gains however great, or power sharing cannot solve. Again our nation finds itself in a quagmire as our enemy in Tehran waxes in strength to the rising hopes of jihadist forces everywhere who see the same defeat of the US that overtook Russia in Afghanistan (see note 12).

Wilson and the victors at Versailles set the stage for a second world war that outdid the first in cruelty and carnage; and Bush’s policies in Iraq are advancing the region toward a catastrophe more dreadful and horrifying than the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s with its million dead and two million wounded. Unless we withdraw our forces from Iraq and bring the war on terror to Iran, ridding the earth of its evil regime, the Iran-Iraq War with its deadly use of WMD will be prelude to a horribly greater war possibly fought with nuclear bombs.

Like I said above, Theo, Johnson’s seizure coincided with the third anniversary of Saddam’s capture by U.S. forces in Tekrit. And 17 days later, two days from Johnson’s 60th birthday, he was put to death in a sectarian lynching that was an abomination of justice; a lynching that fell on a Sunni holiday intentionally planned to antagonize the hated Sunni Moslems; a lynching which signaled that the Maliki government is irredeemably, hopelessly and viciously sectarian; a lynching that so appalled Charles Krauthammer that he concluded in one of his essays: “We should not be surging American troops in defense of such a government (see note 13).” Krauthammer was right, the Maliki government is not worth defending; in fact as Iraq’s disempowered Sunnis refuse to live in the shadow of the Shia they once ruled they are hell bent on taking back the country. At this time in history, Theo, the Shiites and Sunnis of Iraq are irreconcilable and can only settle their differences on the battlefield after a long protracted exhausting war, as Protestants and Catholics settled theirs after fighting to a stalemate after 30 bloody years (see note 14). We are bleeding for no good reason in Iraq, for a lost cause of democratic peace like Wilson’s useless League that failed to stop a second great war. Indeed, Theo, Tim Johnson’s terrible brain seizure so precisely and tragically timed by Providence was a prophetic warning confirming this truth.

Theo, before concluding this letter on Senator Johnson I will cite one last ominous sign about the surge, not given by the stricken senator before the President’s surge speech, but 114 days later-a number of special significance to the war (see note 15). Now as the senator shares the same last name with Lyndon Johnson, the President who turned the Vietnam War into an unpopular cause and tragic defeat, so as if to give us warning that Iraq is headed down the same fatal path Johnson was released from his hospital on April 30th, a day of infamy in the history of America which I will return to shortly (see note 16).

But before I do it is important to note that on the very same day of Johnson’s release Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey was discharged from Cooper Hospital in Camden after sustaining serious injuries in a car accident 18 days before. This was the same Jon Corzine who served in the U.S. Senate with Johnson when the Iraq War Resolution came up for vote (see note 17). The same Jon Corzine who at the time was 60 years old like Tim Johnson and the President, and who like Wilson is the governor of New Jersey (see note 18).

But what is ominous about these convergences, Theo, is that April 30, 2007, the very day both men were discharged, marked the 32nd anniversary of Liberation or Reunification Day when North Vietnam captured Saigon and unified the country under communist rule. A dark day in American history and even darker for South East Asia. While this coincidence is astonishing in itself, clearly portending a bad outcome for our surging forces and the war, what makes this more convincing as a divinely given sign-once again joining Iraq to our fate in Vietnam-is that Corzine suffered his accident on April 12th, four years from the day when the world saw the fall of Baghdad (see notes 19 and 20).

 

Notes

1. Only one in ten with this birth defect called “arteriovenous malformation” are known to suffer intracerebral bleeding and not past the age of 55. As Johnson was close to 60 everything about his seizure and its timing were extraordinary in the extreme.

2. Johnson was one of 30 Democratic senators who voted for the Iraq War. Moreover, at the time of his seizure Johnson was the only member of the Senate with a child serving in Iraq.

3. Saddam was captured in his home town of Tikrit on December 13, 2003.

4.Senator Edwin Johnson of South Dakota held his seat from 1915-1921.

5. Benedict XV was pope from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922. Known as the “peace pope” he labored tirelessly to end the Great War sending emissaries to the ends of the earth with messages of peace and reconciliation. Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI on April 19, 2005 taking his name from Benedict XV whose mission for world peace he has dedicated his pontificate to continue.

6. While Republicans going into the 1918 election had a one seat edge (215-214) over House Democrats, minority party support gave Democrats a voting advantage. Moreover, as the 1918 Senate elections gave Republicans a two seat edge over Democrats (49-47) the 2006 election gave Democrats the same edge (51-49)-with two independents that caucus with them.

7. The profoundly corrupt government of Nouri al-Maliki is as rigidly Shia today as when it began in 2006 and perhaps more so due to the defiant rise of radical Iran as a regional power-an achievement that make members of Iraq’s ruling Shiite coalition proud to be Moslems and is cheered by the mad Arab street

Despite US support for Iraq’s Shiite government to the tune of $200 million per day and 4000 dead Ahmadinejad is more popular and respected within government circles than George Bush. This in part is due to the fact that Bush is involved in an abusive and demeaning relationship with Maliki where he is constantly taking advantage of the President’s generosity, infinite patience and blind commitment to reconciliation and nation building while giving little in return to make