From Tom Paine

Mike Evans may not be a household name, but he is doing all he can to encourage President Bush to act militarily against Iran before the end of 2008. Just prior to its mid-April release, Evans began his one-man guerilla war in support of his new book advocating military action against Iran, and against what he calls “secular humanist God-haters” and “pro-Islamic radical sympathizers.” And he seems to have won ... at least one battle. On Sunday, June 3, the book, The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While The World Sleeps, landed on The New York Times bestsellers’ list at #1 in the paperback category.

Flying under the mainstream media’s radar, using near-daily e-mail blasts along with postings on his website, Evans convinced large numbers of his supporters to buy his book; a fair number also heeded his plea to help promote it by writing five-star book reviews at Amazon.com.

While the book offers up a host of well-worn Bush Administration talking points--Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction was likely shipped to Syria; it’s “better we fight in the streets of Baghdad then in Washington, Los Angeles or Dallas”--it also forcefully argues that Iran is the major player in fomenting unrest in the Middle East, and needs to be dealt with forcefully.

The Final Move Beyond Iraq opposes any withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq anytime in the near future, maintains that the U.S. must “disarm Iran’s nuclear ambitions and stop the rogue state from supplying weapons, jihadists and support to the [Iraqi] insurgency,” and suggests that the U.S. use the 200,000-strong Kurdish army to fight the insurgency.

He calls implementation of recommendations from the Iraq Study Group Report tantamount to a “call to appeasement--just like Chamberlain’s in the face of Nazi aggression in 1938,” and maintains that the war in Iraq is “the initial battle” of what he terms “World War Against Terrorism.”

In the publisher’s press release dated April 17, 2007, the book is billed as “offer[ing] America a final wake up call” and it claims that it “conclusively demonstrate[es] that:

* “An Iranian-sponsored Islamic revolution is spreading and presents America with its greatest security threat since the Civil War”
* “Immediate withdrawal from Iraq would harm American interests and embolden terrorists to attack the American homeland”
* “Iran is the key player in inciting violence in Iraq”
* “The U.S. must strike Iran within the next 12 months, or the next President may be presiding over a nuclear 9/11”

While Evans agrees with many of the Iraq War-advocating neoconservatives that are now calling for a robust military response to Iran, he comes at it from a decidedly different perspective; a Biblical perspective. Evans writes:

"I believe this is a battle of two books, two kingdoms and two spirits--and that the key to victory lies more in the hands of the church in America crying out to God than it does in the politicians of Washington, D.C."

The “book is designed as a twenty-one-day study tool, patterned after Daniel’s twenty-one days of prayer told of in Daniel 10 that brought deliverance to his nation and his people. “ Evans has come up with “three weeks of messages for pastors and Bible teachers” and “Power Point presentations” available at his website. KEEP READING