A tank named "New Testament" is leading the attack against Iraq insurgents

[BurtWorm]

Haditha Dam, Al Anbar, Iraq - The 'New Testament' a tank with 4th Tank Co., 1st Tank battalion attached to 3/25 prepares to lead the way during a recent mission. Photo by: Cpl. Ken Melton


Salon.com war room commentary:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/05/27/new_testament/index.html

[sabra]

1. AmericaBlog has been tracking this all week, took 5 days for the DOD

to remvoe the pic...

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/05/we-won-dod-removes-anti-muslim-tank.html

[BurtWorm]

4. How long before they tell the tank company to change the name?

I'll bet the freepers just loooooooooooove the symbolism.

[Colorado Blue]

2. Swell.

I hope it isn't the "Crusader" model?

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. hmm that woudl be a British tank

[jayfish]

15. I Think CB Is Referring To...

the canceled Mobile artillery system. I think that was called Crusader too.

Jay

[Colorado Blue]

35. Right! That's the one. They made big bucks off it though,

from what I've read.

Sigh.

People interested in How Things Work, look up "The Carlyle Group."

According to Craig Unger's book, "House of Bush, House of Saud," this investment house, which depends for cachet upon board members with impeccable political connections PLUS huge petrodollar infusions, some from the Saudis, bought up defense stocks which were cheap after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Needless to say, some of those stocks (along with the price of oil) have done VERY WELL, especially since Gulf War I.

Can't sell weapons if you've got no wars. And higher oil prices benefit - OIL COMPANIES. Who's in the White House?

'Course, billions of OTHER people are gonna suffer, bigtime.

Sometimes, I think we are doomed:(

[triguy46]

3. apostasy

Of course we have the highest respect and regard for our brown skinned friends, the iraqizians.

[tsuki]

5. I saw that on Americablog. My opinion is that it is blasphemous,

and the army is condoning the blasphemy by posting it on their web site.

What did Jesus do? I don't remember a lot of bloody battles in the NT.

[LSparkle]

6. As a Christian, I'm disgusted ... as an American, I'm disgusted

I have family in the Armed Forces but ... What possesses (ha!) these people to scrawl things like this on their WEAPONS???? Go fight your wars but don't go writing your family members' names or Biblical references on your guns, tanks, etc.!!!!!

[sleipnir]

7. Watch out Jews!

After the New Testiment is done with the Muslims, whoa, it's time for them to go after that other religion that doesn't use the NT.



<This is possibly the worst PR move the Army has made in months, I half expect to see another tank with the slogan "The Power of Christ Explodes You!">

Disclaimer:
:sarcasm:

[Colorado Blue]

36. Hey - there's already a scandal at the Air Force Academy,

another one I mean.

Apparently the Born Agains are proselytizing and bothering and targeting Jewish cadets.

A chaplain who wanted the government to look into this got transferred - to Okinawa.

[Brotherjohn]

8. Have you seen the cool new uniforms?!

:sarcasm:

[leveymg]

16. Must be the crew uniform for the new Crusader Tank.

That's made by General Defense, a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group. Really.

[DistressedAmerican]

10. What Culturally Illiterate, Country Ass, Pig Fuckers!

WHY DO THEY HATE US? I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!

[Name removed]

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[DistressedAmerican]

21. BroadBrush ethnic slurs are against the posting rules here...

Your profundie flames the other day made your ulterior motives pretty clear to me.

When you start talking about "they" do or do not do this, you are way out of line!

You seem to hate non-christians. That is quite clear from the things you have posted.

Good luck around here...

[Violet_Crumble]

22. Why don't you take yr own advice?

Anyone who does have even a basic knowledge of Islam and the Middle East knows that the broad generalisations against an entire group of people based on their religion is nothing but ignorant crap...

Violet...

[Swamp Rat]

24. Why don't you enlist TODAY and go help out?

Please do not desecrate the name "Davey Crockett" by refusing to fight in Iraq. :cry:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

27. Good news for you, Davey-boy! The NeoCon Fundies want to wipe...

...out Islam! I bet that makes you happy, Davey-boy!

By the way, Davey...who wiped out the American Indians? Who enslaved blacks and brought them to the American Colonies?

I think you should try thinking before you post. I know that will be a new experience for you, so we'll give you a few months to get used to the experience.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

28. Poor Davey! He's just not getting it, is he?

[Karenina]

23. They are runnin' wild and loose

in the streets of Iraq. Kickin in doors, shooting at ANYTHING that moves, committing unspeakable atrocities that I will not describe as "links" are demaned and my sources are simple neighbors crying on their fuckin' cell phones. Taken all together, (sorta like the "irregularities" in y'all's last "election") it spells G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E.

Am I clear, this mawnin' y'all?

[noiretextatique]

31. crystal

:hi:

[Hubert Flottz]

41. There they go again...

Mixing Church and state!(the tankers)

We can all sleep better tonight knowing that the sword of the lord is on the march in that "Gawd-awful heathen land"!

[bballny]

11. We

would never flush the Quran down a toilet because we really respect them

[DearAbby]

12. But...but...this is not a Religious War? ....Is it?

Well there is a bit of diplomacy....John Bolton style!

[BringEmOn]

13. Is that the same New Testament that says "Blessed are the peacemakers?"

[DistressedAmerican]

17. That Version Is Antiquated And No Longer Applies In A Post 9/11 World!

:sarcasm:

[leveymg]

14. Naw, Just the cannon part has religious overtones.

Hellfire and brimstone - or is that Old Testament? I get them confused.:evilgrin:

[Name removed]

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[DistressedAmerican]

20. Here you are again! I called you on your likely alternative motives

the other day.

I wonder why you would feel the NEED to post here with suck broadbrush ethnic slurs?

I wonder?

Your tone just does not smell right to me!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

25. Hey, Davey....

...Bobby Kennedy was killed by the rounds that struck him BEHIND his ear, not from the shots fired wildly by Sirhan Sirhan. Evidence exists of more rounds than the eight shots fired by Sirhan. Nobody but Sirhan was prosecuted. Who gained, Davey? Answer: The rightwingers of the 1960s.

Here's another thought for you to mull over...the same types of people that are running the US today are politically identical with the rightwingers of the 1960s.

Oh, and here's another thought for you, although I know it will probably overload what you're using for a brain housing group....the rightwing Fundies that support the rightwing NeoCons think "the rest of the world should convert or die". What do you think about that, Davey?

My sympathies have always been with JFK, RFK, and MLK, Jr...but I doubt seriously that you're on the same side of the political spectrum with me.

[Swamp Rat]

26. Quit complaining about Muslims here!

Go there yourself and tell them how you feel!

ENLIST TODAY! NO EXCUSES!!!

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. How about "Mission Accomplished!"

[lala_rawraw]

30. Oh for the love of God...

Okay, so let's get the entire mid-east to hate us, Jews, Muslims, and anyone else near the criminal machinery of this administration.

[Deja Q]

32. Have them read some of the fuckin' testament first.

They're killing so we can get their oil while our own government does things that would make Christ weep even more.

[orpupilofnature57]

33. That is commonly known as Sacrilege.,I call it Rev. Rove and his pup

Shrub.

[VOX]

34. Funny, I don't remember the Gospel of M1-A1 Abrams from Sunday school...

Must have missed that lesson. :sarcasm: :nuke: :mad: :grr:

[FizzFuzz]

37. I'd like to spread that around to the fundies at work.

Argh. my head is going to explode.

But New Life Church evengelists believe, as per Pastor Ted, that the bible, being bloody, supports preemptive war. Invasion is godly.

See this article, in Harper's magazine
http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist.html

And that is why he believes spiritual war requires a virile, worldly counterpart. “I teach a strong ideology of the use of power,” he says, “of military might, as a public service.” He is for preemptive war, because he believes the Bible’s exhortations against sin set for us a preemptive paradigm, and he is for ferocious war, because “the Bible’s bloody. There’s a lot about blood.”

[despairing optimist]

38. New meaning brought to the term Taking the Offensive

Now, that's what I call Intelligent Design. If this doesn't prove Darwin right, there's more than one ape on the loose inside the Beltway.

[Hubert Flottz]

39. My "track's" name was GI Judy!

Named after the meanest lady bartender in western "Yuurp"! The ruskies didn't dare cross that border when old Judy was locked and loaded and I mean the bartender lady, not the tank! Back then we had values and morals and shit! People didn't ever shoot at our old M-60 tank because we didn't play that turn the other cheek shit! We believed in the Awesome Power of the allmighty Cordite and plenty of cold beers! Those were the good old days!

Edit} *Hic* *Belch* *Hic*

[spindoctor]

40. And its all been done in the best POSsible taste!

If that ins't proof that God is on our side, I don't know what is.

[Lorien]

42. Do they realize that Jesus Christ is beloved by Muslims too?

I can't remember his exact place in the Muslim faith; I think that he's one of their prophets.