General Casts War in Religious Terms

[TheWebHead]

The Pentagon has assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets to an Army general who sees the war on terrorism as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan.

Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the new deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, is a much-decorated and twice-wounded veteran of covert military operations. From the bloody 1993 clash with Muslim warlords in Somalia chronicled in "Black Hawk Down" and the hunt for Colombian drug czar Pablo Escobar to the ill-fated attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Boykin was in the thick of things.

...On at least one occasion, in Sandy, Ore., in June, Boykin said of President Bush: "He's in the White House because God put him there."

more:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-general16oct16,1,7655334.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[FlemingsGhost]

1. And yet, it's the "enemy" who is presented as religious nuts

... including from many here at DU.

Suckers!

[bluestateguy]

2. Um

...On at least one occasion, in Sandy, Ore., in June, Boykin said of President Bush: "He's in the White House because God put him there."

So does that mean God chose Bill Clinton too? Or was that the devil's choice? Maybe they get to take turns choosing presidents.

[Bozita]

3. Great post. Thanks.

THIS kind of thinking resides in high places.

This goes well beyond "Halloween Crazy."

[dobak]

4. dupe

this is a duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=168747

[enki23]

5. yes, yes. he's right. god wanted dubya in the whitehouse

and 9-11 happened because god wanted it to happen
and old ronnie ray-gun is a vegetable because god likes him that way
and god didn't want osama to be caught
and god didn't want saddam to be caught
and god didn't want "weapons of mass destruction" to be found
and god wanted conservative barbara olson to die as badly as liberal paul wellstone
and god wanted me to be an atheist
and god wanted abortion to be legal
and god wanted gun control
and god wanted social security
and god wanted a minimum wage
and god wanted affirmative action
and god thought it would be a good idea to let us get cancer
and god wanted charles manson
and god wanted ted bundy
and god wanted ole' adolph
and god wanted general pinochet
and god wanted lincoln to die
and god wanted bill clinton to be in the whitehouse
and god wanted jimmy carter to be in the whitehouse
and god wanted richard nixon to be in the whitehouse
and god wanted us to like chocolate
and god wanted some people to want to fuck each other's spouses
and god wanted some people to want to fuck their own children
and god wanted some people to have bad breath
and god wanted some people to have good hair
and god wants all of us to fucking die

mr general, may you, in your own life, find your god's will being done.