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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (30256)	10/18/2003 10:35:01 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Who is Bush trying to bring down? Could it be?...Satan? thenation.com I've a vague recollection of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" reporting that the outcome of war in Iraq would hinge upon which God was more powerful -- the Muslim or the Christian. (Never mind that the Koran says they're the same god.) The punch line was something about the real threat being India -- because Vishnu has eight arms and might be able to take Jesus in one-on-one combat. These days reality out-parodies parody. Enter the man who Donald Rumsfeld this summer put in charge of finding Osama bin Laden: an evangelical Christian and the former commander of the Army Special Forces, Lt. General William G. Boykin. Daily Outrage readers may remember Boykin from April, when he was hosting a live-fire Christian retreat for Southern Baptist clergy. (Every priest should have a working knowledge of how to use a knife and night-vision goggles to clear a room.) Instead of being called on the carpet, Boykin was promoted. He's now a deputy undersecretary of defense tasked with hunting down "high-value terrorist targets", like bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Boykin has been making the rounds of churches in America with a slide show in which he throws up pictures of Saddam or Osama and then says, "The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan." It's possible this is why we can't find Osama or Saddam. We keep looking for this other guy. As to the terrorists, "They're after us because we're a Christian nation." Boykin has also been telling churches about meeting a Muslim fighter in Somalia who had bragged on television that Allah would protect him from the American military. "Well, you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol," Boykin says. After the Somali was captured, Boykin says he told the man, "Mr. Otto, you underestimated our God." Ah, but has General Boykin underestimated Vishnu? Late Friday he was offering apologies for offending anyone and insisting he was "neither a zealot nor an extremist." * * *