[DED]

You might want to learn more about Samaritan's Purse before jumping to the conclusion that the organization would cause problems. It is an international relief organization (and a highly effective and respected one at that); not primarily an evangelical one.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/home.asp#

[willyboyishere]

"Samaritan's Purse"---
----I'm sure the organization is wonderful. But there is no more highly charged place on earth than Iraq right now,
no place where the outcome of this earth-shaking upheaval we've started is more crucial, no place where the potential for everything to go badly or well is more fragile....if there's no evangelism, that would be fine...I just doubt that it would stay that way for very long. I don't want to see a repeat of the way that the Clinton Administration blundered in Somalia, fatuously turning what was supposedly a humanitarian mission
into an attempt at "nation-building" before it had ANY of its ducks in a row.

[skr]

I must've done a terrible job explaining my position. I've read and re-read what I wrote and I can only come up with the omission of a word or three making you think I was agreeing with the author. I emphatically don't. I'll try again:

Funny how (Franklin Graham's) telling the truth becomes (Islam-)bashing. Let the Iraqis determine whether or not they'll accept the aid and the message. We, including the author, all know that the aid won't be withheld if the message is rejected. (Franklin Graham loves people and wants to help them. He knows that Christian testimony is alive in actions and has plenty of experience in various countries doing what God has called him to do. May God guide the organization's steps.)

I hope that clarifies my previous reply.