Ok, so let me get this straight. This Noah guy collected all the world's
animals onto a ship that he built by hand and saved them from an
apocalyptic flood that killed off everything else? Then within a couple
of years, it all grew back again?
Should we really trust our government to people who believe in this UTTER
*****!? Why must we be dragged down into this Judeo-Christian *****
and to the terrorists' level? It's the 21st century, what happened to
Armageddon? Could it be the Bible was WRONG!?
All this religious rhetoric is great for excusing Halliburton's corporate
crimes, and keeping a Texas redneck crook in office, isn't it?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=454555
General promises to stop talking of Satan and Islam
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
The Independent, UK
A Pentagon general criticised for portraying military conflicts as
religious battles has said he will desist from his evangelical rhetoric
in an attempt to keep his job.
Lieutenant-General William Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defence
for intelligence, sparked controversy when in a series of speeches he
cast the American battle with Muslim radicals as a fight against "Satan".
The Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended Lt Gen Boykin, saying
his statements were "a private affair".
Lt Gen Boykin, a much-decorated veteran who was involved in many covert
operations including the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident in Somalia, has
said that throughout his career he felt God was on his side. "I knew my
God was bigger than his," he told an audience last year, in reference to
a Somali fighter. "I knew that my God was a real God and that his was an
idol." In another speech he said Islamists hated the US "because we're a
Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-
Christian ... and the enemy is a guy called Satan".
Critics said the comments undermined efforts by the Bush administration
to ensure its "war on terror" was not seen as a war against Islam.
Pentagon lawyers and public affairs officials met yesterday to assess how
damaging the general's comments have been.
Stephen Cohen, who studies US policy in the Arab and Muslim world for the
US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, told the Los Angeles Times:
"The phrase 'Judeo-Christian' is a big mistake. It's the language of Bin
Laden and his supporters ... We have to be very careful that this does
not become a clash between religions, a clash of civilisations."
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