Day Eleven of Gulf War II
Interesting article in the Philadelphia Inquirerer this morning: Weapons sales to Iraq.
It says that "more than half of all technology sales with military applications, including sales of technology used in the production of nuclear weapons, came from Germany."
Wonder if all my protesting fellow Germans are aware of this. German companies such as Degussa, Siemens and Carl Zeiss have been making good money off of arming Iraq. Since it is constantly pointed out to me how guilty the US is of delivering arms to Iraq, I believe it's time for the pointers to move on to another argument.
The research about arms sales to Iraq was done by the research group The Wisconsin Project, a "non-profit, non-partisan foundation operating out of Washington, DC, under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin", according to their website.
They link to another site, called Iraq Watch, which features an article outlining which companies have sold what to Iraq.
It also features an Iraq Supplier Index. I am happy to report that my employer apparently did not sell anything to Iraq.

From the spiritual front:
I have been reflecting on Psalm 51 in the last two days.
Here are verses 10-12 from the Contemporary English Version:
"10 Create pure thoughts in me and make me faithful again.
  11 Don't chase me away from you or take your Holy Spirit away from me.
  12 Make me as happy as you did when you saved me; make me want to obey! "
Keith Green sang a beautiful rendition of this but he used the more traditional text from the King James Version:
"10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
  11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
  12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit."
(For those of you who are not familiar with Keith Green, a believer who died in his late 20s with two of his young children in a plane crash, I invite you to visit his still ongoing ministry, Last Days Ministries, now led by his wife Melody who was pregnant with the fourth child when Keith went home to be with the Lord - what a huge impact Keith's music has had on my Christian walk!)
How easy it is to lose the joy of one's salvation by not staying close to His Word! I have experienced this first hand and want to exhort you to read your Bible daily.
Listen to Christian music; read Christian books. I have never experienced greater joy in the Lord than when I actively wrapped my mind around Him.
God is so faithful to those who stay faithful to Him!
In Christ,
Elke


posted by Elke at 2:22 PM