Did the reports include this one?
Posted on 05/17/2009 8:37:37 PM PDT by reaganaut1
A series of cover sheets for intelligence reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials during the early days of the war in Iraq in 2003 were adorned with biblical quotations, and appeared Sunday, six years later, on the Web site of GQ magazine.
The daily briefings were called the “Worldwide Intelligence Update,” one of several intelligence reports compiled overnight and presented in a folder for Mr. Rumsfeld and other officials as they came to work.
In the selection of the cover sheets that GQ placed on its Web site, photographs of soldiers praying or in action on the sands of Iraq were overlaid with quotations like this one from Isaiah: “Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.”
Another, showing a tank at sunset, had this quotation from Ephesians: “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
The accompanying article, written by Robert Draper, the author of a book about George W. Bush that was published in the last year of his presidency, suggested that Mr. Rumsfeld often delivered the briefings “by hand, to the White House.” But several former officials said Sunday that they doubted that Mr. Bush regularly saw the Pentagon briefing, which was considered both less complete and less sensitive than the president’s daily brief, the compilation of overnight and long-term intelligence assessments prepared for the president, and delivered every morning.
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This rankles the liberals to no end. HOW DARE THEY PRAY?
Did the reports include this one?
Leave it to the tottering newspaper of record to make something of this.
Nah, no thanks.
What’s wrong with quotes from the Bible?
Would it have made them feel any better if he put quotes from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” on them?
If it were quotations from Sun Tzu, nobody would be complaining.
Ummmm... the problem? Well..., no God allowed in government, apparently...
Yeah they would. This is Bush and Rumsfeld we're talking about. Somebody would find something to complain about.
They would say Sun Tzu was code for Son You, which in turn meant “You (Jesus) are the Son of God”.
See...I know how to think like a moonbat! I could work for the Washington Post, if I had no pride.
lol - Nicely twisted there.
..now if only you could explain how “freedom” is having the government control every action, event, or thought in your life...
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