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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (139668)7/10/2004 10:20:50 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I wouldn't go to someone else's country and tell them I am going to win because God is on my side.


Why you don't say?! Then for example you would not support someone who'd say "Our enemy is a spiritual enemy because we are a nation of believers. . . His name is Satan.", right?


The general leading the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein has publicly declared that the Christian God is "bigger" than Allah, who is a false "idol", and believes the war on terrorism is a fight with Satan, it emerged yesterday.

Investigative reporters from the Los Angeles Times and NBC television have dug up two years' worth of seemingly incendiary comments from Lt Gen William "Jerry" Boykin, the newly promoted deputy undersecretary of state of defence for intelligence.

Gen Boykin has repeatedly told Christian groups and prayer meetings that President George W Bush was chosen by God to lead the global fight against Satan.

He told one gathering: "Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. He's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."

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telegraph.co.uk


I wonder if his conversations with God were a factor in his promotion. After all, Bush and him seem to be cut from the cloth.
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