Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent President George Bush top secret wartime memos with cover sheets that mixed Scripture and battle photos to cast the Iraq invasion as a holy Christian crusade.
Rumsfeld, not a man who wore religion on his sleeve, appeared to be trying to manipulate - or curry favor with - the Bible-quoting Bush, according to an explosive story in GQ.
Some Pentagon analysts worried that if the memo covers leaked, they would inflame the Islamic world, undercut Washington's Arab allies and bolster those who claimed America was out to Christianize the Muslim world.
A rather disgusting and scary perversion of a religion, don't you think? If you put a kaffiyeh on Rummy's head, you might think you were dealing with sha'aria-mad Al Qaeda.
Well, we now know that Bush had plans for an Iraq invasion before the 2000 election. We know the whole torture mess was not about preventing imminent terrorist attacks against Americans but was, instead, all about forcing prisoners to utter the magic words that there was a connection between Osama and Saddam. We know the ironclad proof of Saddam's WMD factories as represented by the "top-secret CIA photos" held up at the U.N. by Colin Powell were mere purchased images from a commercial satellite company that provides "taken from space" photos to anyone who wants to buy them. We know the White House and Cheney targetted Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson for exposing a crack in their strategy. We know the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo was orchestrated from the White House - from conception to planning to execution of the torture program.
So, this little tidbit about Rummy's abuse of religion is just another piece of the horror puzzle this country and other countries have been made to endure for the sake of one President's insanity.
Ick.
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