Your head must be hurting because of all the truth you've been receiving today eh LG?
From a fellow atheist LG -
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html
On 4 November 1796, near the end of George Washington's second term, a treaty with the "Bey and People of Tripoli" was signed, promising cash and other considerations to Tripoli in exchange for peace.
Thus the treaty was signed initially by Washington.
When passed by Congress, Adams was in office and he signed off on the final treaty.
For your information, it is common for atheists to assign the statement to Washington - Society of Separationists, "Did you know that these great American thinkers all rejected Christianity?" (Austin, TX: American Atheist Center); see also Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1995, p. B-9, "America's Unchristian Beginnings," Steven Morris.
BTW LG, take an aspirin because there is more truth for you. The statement was not written by either Washington or Adams - but by one Joel Barlow.
Now it is interesting that atheists accuse me of lying on this point yet what do they do?
- attribute a statement to Washington or Adams that neither never made - but that another man penned
- Misrepresent the quote to make it what it isn't
- The article doesn't appear in the arab version of the treaty.
So LG, what other bilge are you going to try to pass off as truth today eh?
Too easy...