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Huckabee: World War III has begun

Candidate says the enemy perverts Islam


By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press


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------- February 10. 2007 9:30AM


F
ormer Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee warned yesterday that the
country is at war with a perversion of Islam and that any bending of
U.S. resolve will let the jihadists destroy America.

Huckabee, making his first trip to New Hampshire as a candidate for
the Republican Party's presidential nomination, told business leaders
at Daniel Webster College in Nashua yesterday that the war isn't about
borders or economics. It's about ill-interpreted theology.

"This is an enemy that really basks in the perversion of piety and the
face of a faith to create a real sense of the ultimate contrast
between light and between darkness, between life and between death,"
Huckabee said.

He said anything less than a resounding victory in Iraq and elsewhere
would mean the end of U.S. culture.

"This is not like most wars and battles, which are fought over
property or prosperity or personalities or even politics," he said.
"At the heart of this is religion. But a perversion of religion.
Islamic fascism is real, and the jihadists that have declared a war
against us must be understood in the theological context in which this
war is being waged."

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Huckabee, who spent most of his career as a pastor, was the youngest
president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. He led
congregations in Pine Bluff and Texarkana before becoming only the
third Republican to lead Arkansas since Reconstruction.
As governor of Arkansas, he cut taxes and made health care a top
priority in one of the country's most unhealthy states. He lost 110
pounds after being diagnosed with diabetes and earned national
attention as an advocate of spending more money to prevent disease and
less money to treat it.

Weaving that personal history into remarks yesterday, Huckabee said
New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary shouldn't be won with
money alone. Ideas and one-on-one conversations should give him an
edge. Otherwise, he said, the whole contest should be auctioned off on
eBay.

But the core of his message was that the country is at war with a
shameful enemy.

"We need to understand that this is, in fact, World War III. Unlike
any other world war we've ever fought, this one is one we cannot
afford to lose. Because losing it does not mean we lose some land or
some geopolitical influence. It means we give up our own lives,
because no less than that is the goal of the jihadists."

------ End of article

By PHILIP ELLIOTT

The Associated Press

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Huckabee: World War III has begun

Candidate says the enemy perverts Islam

By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press

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February 10. 2007 9:30AM

F
ormer Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee warned yesterday that the
country is at war with a perversion of Islam and that any bending of
U.S. resolve will let the jihadists destroy America.

Huckabee, making his first trip to New Hampshire as a candidate for
the Republican Party's presidential nomination, told business leaders
at Daniel Webster College in Nashua yesterday that the war isn't about
borders or economics. It's about ill-interpreted theology.

"This is an enemy that really basks in the perversion of piety and the
face of a faith to create a real sense of the ultimate contrast
between light and between darkness, between life and between death,"
Huckabee said.

He said anything less than a resounding victory in Iraq and elsewhere
would mean the end of U.S. culture.

"This is not like most wars and battles, which are fought over
property or prosperity or personalities or even politics," he said.
"At the heart of this is religion. But a perversion of religion.
Islamic fascism is real, and the jihadists that have declared a war
against us must be understood in the theological context in which this
war is being waged."

---ADVERTISEMENT---

Huckabee, who spent most of his career as a pastor, was the youngest
president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. He led
congregations in Pine Bluff and Texarkana before becoming only the
third Republican to lead Arkansas since Reconstruction.
As governor of Arkansas, he cut taxes and made health care a top
priority in one of the country's most unhealthy states. He lost 110
pounds after being diagnosed with diabetes and earned national
attention as an advocate of spending more money to prevent disease and
less money to treat it.

Weaving that personal history into remarks yesterday, Huckabee said
New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary shouldn't be won with
money alone. Ideas and one-on-one conversations should give him an
edge. Otherwise, he said, the whole contest should be auctioned off on
eBay.

But the core of his message was that the country is at war with a
shameful enemy.

"We need to understand that this is, in fact, World War III. Unlike
any other world war we've ever fought, this one is one we cannot
afford to lose. Because losing it does not mean we lose some land or
some geopolitical influence. It means we give up our own lives,
because no less than that is the goal of the jihadists."

------ End of article

By PHILIP ELLIOTT

The Associated Press