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Fascinating article from The Daily Beast that summarizes this GQ piece (“And He Shall be Judged”) about Rummy’s disastrous reign in the Bush administration.

The 10 allegations in the GQ article making waves today, including ex-officials faulting the former Defense secretary for messing up Katrina, stiffing Kennedy of a medal—and, most shocking of all, putting out daily intelligence briefings adorned with quotes from the Bible.

Specifically, regarding the briefings with bible quotes:

Rumsfeld hand-delivered to the president a highly classified daily briefing on the war in Iraq called The Worldwide Intelligence Update. The cover letters were adorned with inspirational images like soldiers praying, Iraqi children gratefully embracing American soldiers, or tanks blasting through the desert. But the covers also contained inspirational passages from the Bible—a move that offended many Defense officials. A cover from March 2003 showed soldiers praying while holding automatic weapons. A passage from Isaiah surrounds the photo: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Here I am Lord, Send Me!” Another Isaiah passage adorns a photo of tanks blasting into Baghdad from the same month: “Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.”

The crusading cover letters made many uncomfortable, but sources say it was Rumsfeld’s way of cozying up to his religious boss—even if Rumsfeld himself was typically much more private about his religion.

Beggars belief. Somehow I think there are many more of these little ‘surprises’ to come.

I can’t believe that Rumsfeld disclosed the name purposefully of the whistleblower of Abu Ghraib prison across all the media while this guy Sgt. Joseph Darby from the 372nd Military Police Company was still in Iraq.
Rumsfeld showed himself for the creep he is in that instance alone.
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GQ has a slideshow of the covers of the defense briefings with bible quotes plus pics of soldiers & the US military machine.

Utterly chilling.

When you consider that 30odd % of americans believe the end is nigh ......then it becomes really chilling.
thank goodness Barack came along to sort things hopefully.
On the Road to Armageddon

Anyone watch the program last night about the USAs interference in every sth american country and how many the woman and children the USA is responsible for killing.
Whether it be training gunmen to gun down women and children in the street or just using the US airforce to bomb the country secretly while blaming others.
I think they should be treated with the contempt any murder would get.
and the CIA bosses explanations of why they did the manipulations of govts and general killing was righteous ........’ because it was for the USA!!!!
Sick individuals running a whole country ......sickens me that we stand behind them holding their hand ........you have to wonder how complicate our own governments have been in this.

mention any of this stuff with your average aussie and he’ll tell you that it’s all madeup conspiracy garbage and not to worry.
Well brainwashed are we!!

ps…probably only me and the two year old grandson were the only two watching the program ....was shown late late on satellite and i guess we would have been the only two up :)