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Can anyone out there point me to the verbatum text of Lt. Gen. William Boykin's speech that has all the LEFT so LOONIE? I want to shove the vile words that the author Ali Alarabi (alialarabi@suntimesmail.com) of an article in the Chicago Sun Times wrote back down his throat with the truth.

National Review calls for the sacking of General Boykin for "insubordination." It compares Boykin to Douglas MacArthur, who publicly advocated attacking China, which was contrary to President Truman's policy. It also compares Boykin to Gen. Edwin Walker, who claimed (circa 1960) that the U.S. government was 60 percent under Communist control. These comparisons seem inapt. To my knowledge, Boykin has not publicly disagreed with the terms of our military engagement; nor has he claimed that the enemy has infiltrated our government. Moreover, he agrees with President Bush that the war we are waging is a war against evil, and it...

Everywhere we turned this week, religion was on the front burner. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was chastised by President Bush for saying that Jews run the world. The Supreme Court is preparing to decide whether the words "under God" should be excised from the Pledge of Allegiance. And a general in the Army, William Boykin, was pilloried for his comments to religious groups in Oregon and elsewhere that militant Islam has it in for the U.S. because America is a "Christian nation." When it comes to drawing outrage, Christians take the cake from Jews, Muslims and atheists nearly every...

CORRECTION ON BOYKIN [NR Editors] National Review, in the issue out today, runs an editorial paragraph that it did not mean to run. We had a debate among the editors--as we debate many things--about Gen. William Boykin, who recently made some highly provocative remarks about the war on terror. Some editors felt that he should be fired forthwith; others demurred. A draft editorial paragraph was prepared, stating the position that Boykin should be fired; at just about the last minute, we decided to withhold judgment--to see how the investigation into the general’s behavior proceeded, and to reach a conclusion then....

CORRECTION ON BOYKIN [NR Editors] National Review, in the issue out today, runs an editorial paragraph that it did not mean to run. We had a debate among the editors--as we debate many things--about Gen. William Boykin, who recently made some highly provocative remarks about the war on terror. Some editors felt that he should be fired forthwith; others demurred. A draft editorial paragraph was prepared, stating the position that Boykin should be fired; at just about the last minute, we decided to withhold judgment--to see how the investigation into the general’s behavior proceeded, and to reach a conclusion then....

<p>CANBERRA, Australia — President Bush met Wednesday with religious leaders who reminded him that much of the Muslim world views the United States and its policies with suspicion.</p> <p>On Bali in Indonesia, Islamic religious leaders told the president in a private meeting that they worry that Americans believe all Muslims are terrorists. "I wanted to make it very clear that I didn't feel that way and Americans don't feel that way," Bush told reporters later.</p>

The Witless Battle Over General Boykin By David Kelley TOC Executive Director dskelley@objectivistcenter.org The crackle of small-arms fire you hear about General William Boykin is the sound of the latest skirmish in America’s culture wars. Boykin is the Pentagon’s head of intelligence in the war on terrorism. He is also an evangelical Christian who has told church groups that Muslim terrorists hate the United States because it is a “Christian nation,” that our real enemy is not Osama bin Laden but Satan, and that we will prevail only if “we come against them in the name of Jesus.” It gets...

LIEUTENANT GENERAL William Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and a highly decorated officer, has intimated that the United States is a Christian country and that he is, himself, a Christian. Journalists across the nation are shocked and horrified. Apparently the general has been traveling around the country speaking in churches, and has gone so far as to suggest that all religions are not equivalent and that, while he relies on his own God, the one bloody-minded terrorists praise and celebrate must be a different and a false one. Naturally he has apologized (to "those who have been offended...

<p>Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the former Delta Force commander, seems to be exactly the kind of warrior America needs to lead us in battle against the kind of fanatics we face.</p> <p>The general is an evangelical Christian, and from his deep Christian beliefs he derives his convictions about the character of the war we are in, and his courage to fight it.</p>

Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the officer leading the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, told evangelical Christian audiences last week that God was on the side of America's war on terrorism and said that Muslims worship an "idol." And that the Muslims' God is not a real God. I know, being a Muslim myself, that I don't worship an idol, and my God is the same God who created us all. And I don't think that God all of the sudden has taken sides in killing and slaughter done in his name. Only people with serious delusions and...

<p>Sooner or later, we're going to have to get serious about the war against terrorists.</p> <p>That means, as painful as it may be for this president or whoever follows after, to take an unflinching look at the enemy, and recognize him for who he is. We should show our own troops the respect we pay to those, such as our Saudi "allies," who only pretend to be our friends.</p>

Just what did Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin say that he should be apologizing for? Just what did the former commander of the Delta Force say that he should be investigated for? Just what did the military leader of the mission to find Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden say to warrant so many calls for his ouster from that position? I'll tell you what he did: He gave speeches representing a mainstream, evangelical worldview. And that is his "rime." I see the attacks on Boykin as another manifestation of anti-Christian persecution and bigotry rampant through the elite cultural...

<p>Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he is under no pressure from the White House to fire Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, despite President Bush's public distancing of himself from the general's remarks about Islam.</p> <p>"I personally have not had any communication on the subject with the White House," Mr. Rumsfeld said in an interview at the Pentagon with editors and reporters from The Washington Times. "The only one who has talked to the White House on this subject is from a press standpoint."</p>

<p>Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the former Delta Force commander, seems to be exactly the kind of warrior America needs to lead us in battle against the kind of fanatics we face.</p> <p>The general is an evangelical Christian, and from his deep Christian beliefs he derives his convictions about the character of the war we are in, and his courage to fight it.</p>

<p>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman, recently heckled during a speech before a largely Arab-American audience, implied that the Bush administration should punish a top Army general who said a Muslim terrorist worships a false "idol."</p> <p>Mr. Lieberman told the Associated Press that Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin contributed to a "global theological conflict" that will only further inflame terrorists' hatred for the United States.</p>

<p>AT FIRST it sounded like satire. My God is bigger than yours? Did General William Boykin actually taunt his Islamic enemy with that muscular divinity? Not my weapons are bigger than yours.</p> <p>Not my battalions are bigger than yours. My God is bigger. It sounded like some e-mail that got through the morning spam filter: Click here if you want your God to be three inches bigger.</p>

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said a top Army general should be reprimanded for his criticism of Muslims, calling those comments the "mirror opposite" of Osama bin Laden's vilification of Christians and Jews. In an interview with Associated Press reporters and editors, Lieberman said Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin should be held to account for casting the United States' fight against terrorists in religious terms with comments that were "wrong theologically" and "very bigoted." The general, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, has come under widespread criticism since the Los Angeles Times reported last Thursday that he characterized...

Were Islam as peaceful as liberals assert, why would they need to purge our government of Christians critical of Islam?Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister of Malaysia, is "about as forward-looking a Muslim leader as we're likely to find," writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. Is this the same Mohamad who commented that the "Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy"? Yes, says Krugman, who calls the remark "inexcusable," then proceeds to excuse it as "rhetorical red meat" thrown to a "Muslim majority" in his country appropriately angry...

Ask any Christian if they believe that God placed George W. Bush in the White House and most will answer in the affirmative. Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, the man leading the search for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, is one of those Christians – and he is not shy about admitting it. He has stated publicly that Bush is "in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this." A statement made with that kind of conviction is bound to grab the attention of both Christians and non-Christians alike. Is Boykin correct? After...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This appears in the Nov. 10, 2003, issue of National Review. During the Korean War, Douglas MacArthur wanted to attack Manchuria, and he let that be known to everyone who would listen. That was not U.S. policy, however, and President Truman promptly sacked the great man. During the Cold War — in fact often pretty hot — NATO general Edwin Walker was instructing his troops in the theorems of the John Birch Society. That the U.S. government was 60 percent under Communist control was not the view of the Kennedy administration, and Walker was gone. Flash forward to...