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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
23 Aug 2004 04:12:14 AM |
| Object: |
OT: Boykin |
Missing the Point
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24997-2004Aug22.html
Page A14
LAST FALL, DEFENSE Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ducked the
embarrassing matter of grossly offensive, anti-Islamic remarks by Lt.
Gen. William G. Boykin by asking the Defense Department's inspector
general to examine his behavior. This was a ruse. The problem with
Gen. Boykin's words was never the possibility that they violated this
or that department regulation -- the sort of thing inspectors general
are charged with investigating. The problem was that Gen. Boykin,
deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, was delivering
himself of bigoted remarks -- generally while in uniform -- that
directly undercut President Bush's repeated insistence that America's
war is not against Islam generally and is not a clash of religious
civilizations. By unloading the matter on the inspector general, Mr.
Rumsfeld and Mr. Bush avoided having to condemn the remarks
forthrightly while seeming to take appropriate action.
Boykin
http://news.google.com/news?q=Boykin&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Boykin&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Boykin&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Boykin&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Rumsfeld
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0402041202.26f5cac7%40posting.google.com
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