Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Rumsfeld and the 'beastly' Boykin

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE11Aa04.html
As President Bush and Vice President Cheney try to prop up Donald Rumsfeld, it emerges that the key person in devising the torture strategy is none other than their favourite Islam hating Christian fundamentalist "beast-man" General Boykin. As people who have studied the Crusades know, barbarity has been inseparable from Christian fundamentalism.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1220622,00.html

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There can be little doubt that he envisages the global war on terror as a crusade. With the Geneva conventions apparently suspended, international law is supplanted by biblical law. Boykin is in God's chain of command. President Bush, he told an Oregon congregation last June, is "a man who prays in the Oval Office". And the president, too, is on a divine mission. "George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the US. He was appointed by God."

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