Bible quotes on covers of top-secret Rumsfeld intel reports

[VietnamVet-BRIGHT]

Looks like Pastor in Chief George Bush's invasion of Iraq was a Christian Crusade after all ...

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Bible quotes adorned covers of top-secret Rumsfeld intelligence reports

Top secret military intelligence briefings prepared by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and often hand-delivered to George W. Bush featured Crusades-like Bible quotes above triumphant photos of the U.S. military effort in Iraq.

Less than one month after U.S. and coalition forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, a “Worldwide Intelligence Update” reached then-President Bush with the following quote on the cover of the briefing, above photos of jubilant Iraqi crowds in newly liberated Baghdad: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.”

One week earlier, on April 3, 2003, another of these reports reached Bush, and its cover contained a passage from the book of Proverbs: “Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.”

Texan journalist Robert Draper, who wrote an authorized biography of George W. Bush called “Dead Certain,” obtained the cover sheets from a former Bush administration official. Draper writes:

These cover sheets were the brainchild of Major General Glen Shaffer, a director for intelligence serving both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense. In the days before the Iraq war, Shaffer’s staff had created humorous covers in an attempt to alleviate the stress of preparing for battle. Then, as the body counting began, Shaffer, a Christian, deemed the biblical passages more suitable.

Many inside the Pentagon, including one Muslim analyst, were offended by the biblical quotes, while others worried that the briefing cover sheets, if leaked, would do serious damage as the U.S. and its allied coalition of mostly Western troops prosecuted a war in an Islamic nation.

The Bible quotes adorned the reports in part because Rumsfeld wanted to forge a connection with his boss, Draper writes:

Publicly flaunting his own religious views was not at all [Rumsfeld]’s style…but it was decidedly Bush’s style, and Rumsfeld likely saw the Scriptures as a way of making a personal connection with a president who frequently quoted the Bible.

Rumsfeld was intensely disliked by many high-level Bush administration officials, who wished he had been fired long before he actually was, Draper report.

“Though few of these individuals would speak for the record (knowing that their former boss, George W. Bush, would not approve of it),” Draper writes, “they believe that Rumsfeld’s actions epitomized the very traitsâ€"arrogance, stubbornness, obliviousness, ineptitudeâ€"that critics say drove the Bush presidency off the rails.”

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[curiosityandthecat]

Raise your hand if you're surprised...  

[VietnamVet-BRIGHT]

Raise your hand if you're surprised...  

Good point.  Goes for just about everything else we're discovering about these clowns.

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[VietnamVet-BRIGHT]

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We may never know the extent of the religious insanity at the heart of Bush's decision to invade Iraq.  However, based on the apocalyptic nature of the bible passages used and the fact that Bush continued to welcome the flow of these messages (b/c he did nothing to stop this practice) shows that his thinking was influenced by Iraq's place in his fundy Christian worldview of an impending apocalypse and the concomitant 2nd Coming of the Jesus character to a secured Jerusalem.

As you may recall, Iraqi president Sadam Hussein was paying the families of Palestinian suicide bombers $25,000, posthumously.  The inherent disorder within Jurasalem caused by such bombing may have been seen by Bush as a severe impediment to the Second Coming and the removal of Hussein as a way to restore the necessary order for this to happen.

Such apocalyptic ideation would have been understood and supported his fundamentalist Christian base; moreover, this insanity may have been held by upper level officers/generals in the Pentagon (ie: Lt. Gen William Boykin, Pentagon Deputy Secretary for Intelligence -- see excerpt & link below) as the cover pages of their Presidential intelligence reports demonstrate.

Dressed in battle fatigues, his pants tucked into his polished combat boots, General William "Jerry" Boykin stepped up to the stage in the Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring, Oregon. General Boykin’s June 2003 talk, similar to ones that he had delivered around the country over the previous years, was a multimedia affair, with Boykin’s remarks timed to correspond to images in a lengthy slide show projected onto a large screen.

Boykin displayed slides of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and North Korea’s Kim Jung Il. "Why do they hate us?" Boykin asked. "The answer to that is because we’re a Christian nation. We are hated because we are a nation of believers."

Boykin said that "the enemy" was not any one of these individualsâ€""The enemy is a guy named  Satan.   Satan wants to destroy this nation. He wants to destroy us as a nation and he wants to destroy us as a Christian army. I’m here on a recruiting trip. I’m asking you to join this army."[/b]

Separation of church and state has been one of the basic tenets that bourgeois democracy in this country has claimed to be based on from the beginning. But for Boykinâ€"who believes America’s enemies "will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus"â€"there really is no difference between the "Christian army" and the U.S. military.

In his Oregon talk, Boykin said about George W. Bush, the U.S. commander-in-chief: "Now ask yourself: Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this. God put him there to lead not only this nation but to lead the world in such a time as this."

http://revcom.us/a/1271/boykin-bush-holy-warrior.htm

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[banthee]

Creationist Christians, why do find it easier to believe the Bible than evolution? Evolution has evidence that supports it and your Bible requires faith of you because it doesn't have evidence to support it. So, why would you choose the Bible's claims about creation over evolution?

[The Magic Pudding]

Creationist Christians, why do find it easier to believe the Bible than evolution? Evolution has evidence that supports it and your Bible requires faith of you because it doesn't have evidence to support it. So, why would you choose the Bible's claims about creation over evolution?

Hello Banthee.
I think it has something to do with their mother told them it was so,
their father told them it was so,
their brothers told them it was so,
their sisters told them it was so,
their teachers told them it was so,
their friends told them it was so.
Life for anyone who said different was made impossible as an example for others.