Black Magic, The Anti Christ and GW Bush

US National security has to develop new and different policies Now it has to cope with spells, curses and the antichrist.

This strange phenomenon was brought to my attention recently at dinner in an upscale Latino restuarant with two Cubans . I was stunned to observe one intentionally spill some wine from his glass on the restaurant floor. When asked what he was doing, he replied he believed that the world is filled with spirits and this was one way to share and acknowledge them--Both were Christian, but fervent believers in Santeria, a religion that mixes black pagan rituals and Catholicism.

This religion involves the ritual sacrifice of animals to propitiate and to bond humans to the gods, usually chickens, goats or sheep . Apparently Fidel Castro has been initiated into the religion. Both said that Castro brought an elephant to Cuba and sacrificed it. And there are witnesses to the event. It is an island , and an elephant coming to the docks is a real event that cannot be surpressed.

A majority of Cubans believe Castro's charmed existance is attributed to his jumbo sacrifice. The revolutionary Che Gueverra, who died hard, with his boots on, most likely was not initiated into Santeria. He was an Argentinean and paid the price for ignoring the gods. Next time the US plans a military adventure in Cuba, it better plan to take out Chango, the avenger god of thunder., war and fire.

This supernatural stuff is not just limited to the Cuban Afro people of the Caribbean. Let us go to Israel, a land where today Aramaic curses are used to take out Israeli leadership. Rabin was assassinated about a month and half after the curse was pronounced Sharon antagonized the same radical elements in Israel opposed to the evacuation of Gaza. It took about four months before he was struck down with a massive stroke. For Sharon it took longer than for Rabin for the curse to take effect. It is said that Sharon's 325 pound weight delayed the damage. Rev. Pat Robertson did not help the situation..He threw gasoline on the fire by screaming that Sharon deserved divine punishment, because he gave away God's land .

Organizing this curse in Israel is not taken lightly. The ceremony called Pulsa Dinura is complicated and involves a number of people. Twenty bearded men over forty years old repeat Kabbalic incantations, led by one who reads the text. All have ritually bathed. This ceremony took place in the moonlight in a Jewish cemetery near Rosh Pena . Many participants in the ceremony against Sharon also pronounced the curse against Rabin in 1995..You could call this process VOOJEW.

This curse works against non -Jews as well. SecDef Rumsfeld, always on the lookout for new and exotic weapons, may want to harness this force and precisely beam it against the axis of evil or, maybe ,try it out on Castro ,Chavez and Bin Laden. It certanly would not entail the self defeating blowback caused by killing innocent people when destoying Islamic settlements in the search for terrorists,

As a born-again evangelical Christian President, GW Bush has his own creepy, oddball fixation that rivals the Cuban and Jewish black magic. It is called the Rapture. Its horrific ferocity and apocalyptic vengeance is described in detail in an article by Craige Unger in the December 2005 issue of VANITY FAIR .The Rapture visualizes that all born- again evangelists will join God when he returns to earth at the second coming. Those who are unsaved are considered antichrists and to be destroyed by God in a cosmic battle by exploding their bodies, filling the valleys with blood. This battle is to take place in Israel near a town called Meggado.

In recent years, especially under GW Bush, there has been a fusion of interests between the American evangelists and right wing elements in Israel--Rev .Pat Robertson is planning to build a Christian Heritage Center in Galilee, Israel on 32 acres of leased land Despite the fact Robertson foolishly popped off over Sharon's illness, the project will go forward and bring considerable revenue to Israel. At the same time Robertson will dementedly get to park his fervered aggragation near the site of his eagerly awaited Rapture Rev Robertson has recently apologized for his anti Sharon remarks, so it is onward Christian soldiers.

Given the militancy and self rightousness of he born-again Christians,some wags say the old Klu Klux Klan is now wearing crosses instead of burning them.

It is a crazy world out there. Most of the craziness is born when religion and politics mix. US Secretary of Homeland Defense, Chertoff, has sunken eyes, hollow cheeks and the look and pallor of a zombie. His name in Russian means "of the Devil". Sleep well American evangelists. Your anticpated bloody Rapture may be sooner than you expect.. Colonel Robert E Bartos US Army Ret