Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts

katty

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Mon May-18-09 02:34 PM
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Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5340059/Donald-Rumsfeld-covered-Iraq-briefing-papers-with-Biblical-texts.html

Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts

Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, provided George W Bush with top secret intelligence briefings on the Iraq war that featured cover pages adorned with Biblical quotes.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 8:56AM BST 18 May 2009

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MineralMan

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Mon May-18-09 02:40 PM
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1. I hope this story has legs long enough to keep it

in the news for a while.

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katty

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Mon May-18-09 02:41 PM
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2. me too

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MineralMan

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Mon May-18-09 02:48 PM
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4. Well, the NYT and WSJ covered it today, so

it should be picked up by the rest of the media. I expect to see it on CNN sometime this evening.

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katty

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Mon May-18-09 03:15 PM
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5. yep-just saw it on both CNN and MSNBC

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MineralMan

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Mon May-18-09 03:19 PM
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6. Excellent!

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tularetom

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Mon May-18-09 02:46 PM
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3. Boy were they manipulating that simple asshole

It's almost funny to imagine cheney and rummy discussing this, laughing up their sleeves at how gullible naive and utterly stupid bush was. Searching through the bible that neither of them otherwise gave a flying fuck about to find quotes that would get the moran jacked up and ready to do exactly what they wanted done.

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More_liberal_than_mo

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Mon May-18-09 05:26 PM
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7. Rumsfeld isn't that religious

but he's craven enough to pass on the Top Secret briefings to Bush because he thought Bush liked them. A right-wing nut Pentagon general had the idea....http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/18/rumsfeld-gq-iraq-bible-quotes-bush
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The documents were conceived by Major General Glen Shaffer, a top-level intelligence officer who reported to Rumsfeld. According to GQ, the briefings originally included humorous messages, but Shaffer, a Christian, thought biblical quotes would be more suitable for the born-again president.
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