How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging 'Spiritual Warfare' in Northern Iraq w/US gov funding

[Shallah Kali]

in part...


http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/147513

On a barren hillside outside Sulaymaniyah in southeast Iraqi Kurdistan sits a small compound of buildings clustered behind battered gray and ochre walls. Atop one wall is a large white sign glittering with gold and azure lettering that reads in English and Arabic: Classical School of the Medes. It is one of three new private schools in the region that teach a "Christian worldview," the handiwork of American evangelicals from Tennessee.

Since the US occupation took hold, American evangelicals have established not only schools, but printing presses, radio stations, women's centers, bookstores, medical and dental clinics, and churches in northern Iraq, all with the blessings and assistance of the Kurdistan government. Many of these efforts were funded in part by US taxpayer dollars, channeled through Department of Defense construction contracts and State Department grants.

In September 2003, just four months after US forces took down Saddam Hussein's regime, 350 evangelical pastors and church leaders assembled in Kirkuk, where they were warmly welcomed by Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government. At that gathering, George Grant, a leader of Servant Group International, the evangelical organization in Nashville that set up the chain of Christian schools, declared that "Jesus Christ is Lord over all things; He is Lord over every Mullah, every Ayatollah, every Imam, and every Mahdi pretender; He is Lord over the whole of the earth, even Iraq!"

CENTCOM documents show that between 2005 and 2007, DOD's Joint Contracting Command Iraq/Afghanistan paid the Kurdish company Daban Group at least $465,639 for the construction of Grant's School of the Medes. Two years earlier, tens of thousands of dollars from a State Department-funded program called Healthcare Partnerships in Northern Iraq also made their way into a variety of Servant Group evangelical and humanitarian projects.

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[bemildred]

1. Tools get used. nt

[benld74]

2. More BUSH BULLSHIT,,,

[msongs]

3. if the us military ever leaves those pimps are on their own & should not be helped nt

[rury]

4. Please do not call them Christians

as they are not Christlike.
They are religious nuts, but not fruits of the spirit.

[Joe Bacon]

5. oh, but they ARE ¢hri$tian$!

Their god is Ayn Rand
Their Jesus is John Galt
Their Holy Spirit it the Invisible Hand
Their Old Testament is The Fountainhead
Their New Testament is Atlas Shrugged.

And, like every other ¢hri$tian, they look out for #1 and believe that people should lie, cheat, backstab and steal their way to the top and the more Gawd loves them, the more pro$perou$ they be¢ome. Amen!

[Chef Eric]

7. They worship Christ. They call themselves Christians. Therefore they are Christians. nt

[Chef Eric]

6. "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." nt

[Doctor_J]

8. Bush called it a Crusade when he first invaded Iraq

this is not a surprise.