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Boston Globe
by James Carroll

05/25/09

That Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld supplied President Bush with Bible-laced Pentagon intelligence briefings might only seem like more Bush-era loopiness, but wait a minute. The deeper, and still current, question is: What in heaven (or, what the hell) is going on inside the US military? A Robert Draper article in Gentleman’s Quarterly revealed that some of the top-secret ‘World Wide Intelligence Briefings’ that Rumsfeld provided to Bush were covered with photographs of Americans at war, and captions taken from Scripture. In one, above a huddle of GIs apparently at prayer, is the question famously put by God, Whom shall I send and who will go for Us? Over the soldiers is the answer from Isaiah: Here I am, Lord. Send me. Above a trooper hunched over a machine gun is this promise from Proverbs: Commit to the Lord, whatever you do, and your plans will succeed...

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