Pentagon reports no longer quote Bible

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_pentagon_religious_quotes_2

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the White House as was practice during the Bush administration.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he did not know how long the Worldwide Intelligence Update cover sheets quoted from the Bible. Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, who was responsible for including them, retired in August 2003, according to his biography.

For a period in 2003, at least, the daily reports prepared for President George W. Bush carried quotes from the books of Psalms and Ephesians and the epistles of Peter. At the time, the reports focused largely on the war in Iraq.

The Bible quotes apparently aimed to support Bush at a time when soldiers' deaths in Iraq were on the rise, according to the June issue of CQ magazine. But they offended at least one Muslim analyst at the Pentagon and worried other employees that the passages were inappropriate.

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Just fyi, for those doubters out there, the Pentagon verifies that the bible briefings did occur.

Edited to add link to original GQ article with 11 of the report covers:

http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

bible quotes on pentagon reports? wtf?

:puke:

http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

And here is a devastating article about Dear old Donald Rumsfeld:

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_9217

Truly some scary stuff.

http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

I am shocked. Thanks for the post.

Probably ten grand each, in quantity.

It had me thinking that the quotes came from some of the bible college grads the BushCo Regime was so fond of hiring.

See, when all those soldiers were dying, and the toll was rising month by month, they included the Bible verses as a way to "support Bush." Isn't that sweet? Almost as if (A) Bush could give a tin shit about all the people dying for his stupidity; and (B) that a Bible verse would make it alllll better. Did they include pictures of fluffy bunnies and cute kittens, too?

I mean, c'mon. Fucking Bible quotes on a military report?

JFC!

Bush!

hoo boy, I'm sure glad we've got some adults in charge again...

yep... nazis

Why is the Pentagon attacking Christian Rights!!!1


:crazy: :eyes: :crazy:

F me running, that falls under the one of the most deranged and sinister things I 've had the dipleasure to see.