GQ: Bush's Bible Briefings

[deminks]

http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

Explanation here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

(snip)

There are many dots yet to be connected, and not just on torture. This Sunday, GQ magazine is posting on its Web site an article adding new details to the ample dossier on how Donald Rumsfeld’s corrupt and incompetent Defense Department cost American lives and compromised national security. The piece is not the work of a partisan but the Texan journalist Robert Draper, author of “Dead Certain,” the 2007 Bush biography that had the blessing (and cooperation) of the former president and his top brass. It draws on interviews with more than a dozen high-level Bush loyalists.

Draper reports that Rumsfeld’s monomaniacal determination to protect his Pentagon turf led him to hobble and antagonize America’s most willing allies in Iraq, Britain and Australia, and even to undermine his own soldiers. But Draper’s biggest find is a collection of daily cover sheets that Rumsfeld approved for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations. GQ is posting 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.

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[Catshrink]

1. Bush was even dumber than I thought

to be so easily manipulated by photos like that is unbelievable. Remember when he called it a crusade? I thought it was a poor choice of words but after seeing these, I think that's exactly what he and Rummy meant. ChEEney used their religious fervor to further his own goals.

The Frank Rich article is, as always, very good.

[Locrian]

2. ARRRRHGGG!

Christ on a cracker that is some creepy stuff...

Yeah lets mix religion with war again (and again, and again....). Especially high tech modern weapons. Fucking mental diseased, retarded, megalomaniac, morally stunted asshole.

[spanone]

3. i believe we call it a theocracy

[Echo In Light]

4. Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move

The Jesus Landing Pad: Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-05-11/news/the-jesus-landing-pad/1

[underpants]

5. What verse was it that Jesus was a 60 A-gunner?

:eyes:

[Raksha]

6. I just looked at the whole slideshow. That's absolutely obscene!

And the fact that we had a "pResident" in the WH for eight years who could be manipulated that easily is downright terrifying!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Those were beyond creepy.

And done intentionally to manipulate Bush. It's bad enough that Rumsferatu would do something like that; even worse that Bush could be so easily manipulated by simple-minded Bible-thumping war porn.

:puke:

[PufPuf23]

8. Oh Barf ! The religious right is dangerous.

A Military of only Gays as Officers and in the Academies is saner and safer than this shit.

These Rumsfield cover sheets to GWB should be played over and over in the media.

Any individual that received these and did not whistleblow should be court-martialed.

Fundies are what need to be purged from the Military.

Some Fundies believe the ME Wars are Bible prophecy and believe war brings one closer to their "reward".

[Enrique]

9. almost all Old Testament verses

Rummy's staff couldn't find one crummy Jesus quote applicable to the Iraq War? Jesus said a lot of stuff, as I understand.

[Vickers]

10. Talibaptists.

:grr:

[donco6]

11. Just . . . megabarf. That is all.

[Triana]

12. The American Taliban. n/t

[hootinholler]

13. Link to the slideshow

http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

:puke:

-Hoot

[jasmeel]

14. some things we can all agree on--- that's batshit crazy!

[Gregorian]

15. Hello, this is Jesus.

You've earned your way to the exclusive hellfire club. It's where those go who get what they want at any expense.

[Wednesdays]

16. K&R

:kick: