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Was the U.S. invasion of Iraq a Jihad?
Posted by satijournal • 5/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: iraq war, politics, Republicans
A series of cover sheets for intelligence reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials during the early days of the war in Iraq in 2003 were adorned with biblical quotations...
Photographs of soldiers praying or in action on the sands of Iraq were overlaid with quotations like this one from Isaiah: “Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.”
Another, showing a tank at sunset, had this quotation from Ephesians: “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/us/18rumsfeld.html
Here's a link to the photos
men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret
Scary stuff.
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Yes! Rumsfeld is a crazy-ass Christianist!
this is the religious thought that controlled one of the keys to the "little red button"
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He used the "word" of God to justify an unnecessary war, which is in direct defiance of the 7th commandment:
7. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
Rumsfeld, Bush, and the rest of them are going to hell. Neeeener, neeeeener...
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"Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. [the disobedient will be banned from heaven] Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’"--Jesus
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W Bush did call it a "crusade" although polybore doubts that he knew what the word meant.-
Did you refer to yourself in the third person??? -
anticsrocks doesn't know what you are referring to... -
HAAAA, most excellent. lolololololol.
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HA! You will believe anything sati. Tell me how GQ, a freakin' metrosexual magazine got their hands on "top secret" photos? I know! They offered Rummy a cover shot on their mag and took them when he was getting his make up put on.
You are a lemming, sati. As long as it is anti-Bush, you believe it HAS to be true.
Even in the article you post, it says this:
"Lawrence Di Rita, the Pentagon spokesman during Mr. Rumsfeld’s time as secretary of defense, said that he had no recollection of the biblical briefs, but that he doubted the famously acerbic and sometimes cranky secretary would have tolerated them for long, much less shared them with Mr. Bush.
“The suggestion that Rumsfeld would have used these reports to somehow curry favor over at the White House is pretty laughable,” Mr. Di Rita said. “He bristled anytime people put quotes or something extraneous on the reports he wanted to read.”
Mr. Rumsfeld’s reputation at the Pentagon was as a strong ideologue, but not as someone motivated by religious convictions."
Thanks for my laugh today sati, you never let me down. -
sat - if you think someone placing the words Top Secret and all the other BS markings on those photos make them real, you must believe in the Santa Clause.
The markings on those photos are pure BS, just like your attempt to make something out of nothing.... Your a freaking joke!
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