Between March 20, 2003 (the start of the war) until December 7, 2004 (approximately 21 months) the Pentagon says that 1,280 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and 9,765 have been wounded there - and that's not counting the casualties in Afghanistan. But, as Paul C. Roberts - who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration - reports:

"The Pentagon's wounded figure conflicts with the report from the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, that as of Thanksgiving week the hospital has treated almost 21,000 Americans injured in Iraq."

Clearly, the Pentagon is "fudging the truth" insofar as the "official" number of U.S. casualties are concerned. Wow! - does the government's lying ever stop? But, then, what else but lies would you expect from the elites who staff the upper reaches of the U.S. government, and whose instructors at Princeton, Yale and Harvard teach that it is no "big thing" to lie to "ordinary persons;" that lies must often be -

"... employed to condition (common) people just as you would train animals, just as you would train a dog." [Quote attributed to William Yandell Elliot, the Harvard Professor who mentored Henry Kissinger, McGoerge Bundy and Zbgniew Brzezinski.]

It's not without reason that the Bible says that these elites -

"... bend their tongues like their bow FOR LIES ... they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for THEY PROCEED FROM EVIL TO EVIL, and they know not me, saith the LORD." (Jer. 9:3) [What's that say about the Christians who have allied themselves with these liars, specifically with the Republican Party elites? Clearly it says, "they know not God!" How can God's people associate themselves with such liars, even for the best of reasons - e.g., to end abortion, etc.? They can't! - at least not without losing their standing before God!]

No! - there is no TRUTH left in the United States! Only lies, and more lies still, and lies piled on these lies! - giving evidence as to the identity of America's REAL master:

"YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH, because THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for HE IS A LIAR, and THE FATHER OF IT (i.e., lies)." (John 8:44)

And you think you can wade through all these lies? That you can remain untouched by them? That you will not eventually succumb to them?

I say to you again - indeed, I somberly warn you - you can leave the organized Church in America and NEVER darken its doorways again, you can ally yourselves with little "cell groups," and you can hide yourself away in what you think is the safety of your own home - AND YOU WILL STILL NOT BE ABLE TO ESCAPE THESE LIES; YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BE AFFECTED BY THEM, AND ULTIMATELY CHANGED; TRANSFORMED INTO -

"... BRUTE BEASTS, made to be taken and destroyed ..." (2 Pet. 2:12)

These lies infuse the United States; all of it - from its political, economic and cultural institutions to its RELIGIOUS institutions, and they affect (perhaps the better word is "infect") EVERYONE - i.e., their understanding of history, of morality, of current events, of religion, to say nothing about matters pertaining to race, gender and the environment - EVERYTHING! If you stay, you too will eventually be affected; you will be changed into a monster, a fiend, though you will hardly recognize at the time what is happening to you. This is what the Bible means when it warns us:

"A little leaven leaveneth the WHOLE lump." (Gal. 5:9)

Believe me when I tell you, there is nothing that you can do to escape this leaven if you remain in the United States - and I repeat, THAT'S TRUE EVEN IF YOU NEVER DARKEN THE DOORWAY OF THE ORGANIZED CHURCH AGAIN. It's gone too far; by now the leaven saturates the WHOLE of the United States (i.e., the whole "lump"). It's too late now; Babylon cannot be healed! The Bible says:

"We would have healed Babylon, but she is NOT healed: FORESAKE HER, and LET US GO ..." (Jer. 51:9)

If you stay, you will pollute yourself; that's why the Bible urges us in the Apocalypse (i.e., the Book of Revelation):

"... Come out of her, my people, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS (i.e., so that you are not compromised spiritually and transformed into a beast by the leaven that is now at work in her), and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Rev. 18:4)

Brothers and sisters, listen to me! - there's a big difference between 9,765 U.S. soldiers wounded and 21,000, and it took Roberts quite a while (and all the connections he still possesses in the government) to dig out the truth of this matter. 21,000 wounded in Iraq, and the Pentagon fails to list 11,235 of them? - but then, it's not the sons and daughters of the elites who are leaving Princeton and Yale to go off to war, but the sons and daughters of what the elites call the "riff -raff" of society that are doing so - those whose jobs the elites have shipped off to sweatshops overseas, and who are left with no alternative but to join the army. The elites call this "volunteering for service," but what it really is, is leaving the poor with no other alternative to feed their families.

Roberts continues:

"Assuming no escalation in the insurgency (which, of course, there will be - what happened recently in Mosul proved that), a continuation of four more years of war would result in another 2,925 U.S. troops being killed for a total of 4,205. Using the Pentagon's wounded figure, 22,320 more U.S. troops would be injured for a total of 32,085. USING THE HOSPITAL'S FIGURE, ANOTHER 48,000 U.S. TROOPS WOULD BE WOUNDED FOR A TOTAL OF 69,000.

"Assuming the U.S. is able to keep 138,000 U.S. troops in Iraq during Bush's second term, U.S. dead and wounded (Pentagon figure) would comprise 26 percent of the U.S. forces in Iraq. Using the military hospital's figure, U.S. dead and wounded would comprise 53 percent of our entire army in Iraq.

"THE PRESENT MILITARY MANPOWER SYSTEM SIMPLY CANNOT PROVIDE REPLACEMENTS FOR THESE LOSSES. Current troop strengths are being maintained by calling up reserve and national guard units and by extending soldiers' tours of duty beyond the contractual period, a practice that U.S. troops are contesting in court. Tens of thousands of careers, marriages, and family finances are being disrupted by the commitment of reserve and national guard units to war in Iraq."

And it's not just Roberts who is saying this; countless others are too. For example, Ann Scott Tyson of the Christian Science Monitor writes:

"Army leaders admit that at current levels they must rotate troops into war zones at a rate that is UNSUSTAINABLE in the long run."

That is, unsustainable absent a draft. There are some, of course, who take the government's assurances that there will be no draft at face value - but they are being very, very stupid in doing so. To think - even for a minute - that the elites are going to give up their ill-gotten gain in Iraq is very naive. As a result, THE ARMY DESPERATELY NEEDS MORE HUMAN FLESH TO THROW INTO THE MAW IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THEY ARE COMING TO DRAFT YOUR CHILDREN IN ORDER TO GET THAT HUMAN FLESH. And believe me, one way or the other, they'll get them.

Moreover, it's not just the government's deceit with regard to the causality rates that the army is sustaining in Iraq, the government is also being ASTONISHINGLY deceitful about the kind of wounds that are being suffered. These wounds are HORRIFIC! Raja Mishra reports that U.S. troops injured in Iraq have required limb amputations at twice the rate of past wars, and as many as 20 percent have suffered APPALLING and grimly DISFIGURING facial wounds - the kind that would make most people involuntarily wince in horror if they were confronted face-to-face with someone who had sustained such wounds. But, then, the government is careful to hide these unfortunates from the public's gaze; at most, the only ones we see on TV are the ones whose arms or legs have been amputated but whose faces are still intact - and then only after they have been successfully fitted with ersatz limbs - as if they are suitable replacements for their real, God-given arms and legs.

Now think about that! - if you have a child in the military, chances are today he will serve at least two tours of duty in Iraq before he gets out. Using the causality rate that Roberts has come up with insofar as the war's wounded are concerned, your son or daughter has almost a 50-50 chance of being wounded; and if he is wounded, he has a 20 percent chance of suffering a horrible, disfiguring facial wound - OR what exactly do you think happens to those who survive a blast from an improvised explosive devise: It's their arms, legs and FACES that are exposed to such explosions; body armor protects the torso, but nothing else.

All this HORROR is having a massive effect on retention and enlistment insofar as the National Guard and Reserves are concerned. Enlistment and retention have dropped to levels that will shortly hollow out units in both organizations, making them nothing more than "paper units" - figments of the imagination. That's bad! That's very bad because over one-third (sometimes as many as one-half) of the units in Iraq are Reserve or National Guard units. All this to say nothing about what the individual states will do in natural disasters requiring the mobilization of state National Guard units (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires, and the occasional riot).

The Reserve and National Guard have resorted to using bonuses ($15,000) for reservists and "weekend warriors" to re-enlist, etc.; they've even offered to pay off their school debts - but these and other inducements have hardly had any effect. By Summer of this year, there may be no effective fighting or support units left in the Reserve and National Guard.

The very real fact of the matter is, these kind of losses (the kind attributable to casualties in Iraq and the reluctance of the "common folk" to enlist or re-enlist - despite bonuses and benefits of every type and description) cannot be sustained by the army for much longer, and if you have a son or daughter, you need to know that the draft is coming!

Soon now - very soon now - your son and daughter will be "called up to serve," then what will you do.

Of course, the kind of legislation necessary for such a call-up would never pass Congress right now - at least absent another "manufactured" 9/11 event; but that's coming too; and if you wait for that to happen to get out of the country, you will wait too long!

More next time!

Until then, God bless you,

S.R. Shearer,
Antipas Ministries

We urge you all to read or re-read our article, "Closing the Trap: the Draft, Catching Those Christians Who Think Prophecy Is Just a Game."

We URGE you also to acquaint (or re-acquaint) yourselves with our article, "Come Out Of Her."