Great article on Fundigelical Boykin & his role in Iraqi Prison Reform.

[robertpaulsen]

Sidney Blumenthal wrote this:

Saving General Boykin seemed like a strange sideshow last October. After it was revealed that the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence had been regularly appearing at evangelical revivals preaching that the US was in a holy war as a "Christian nation" battling "Satan", the furore was quickly calmed.

Boykin was not removed or transferred. At that moment, he was at the heart of a secret operation to "Gitmo-ize" (Guantánamo is known in the US as Gitmo) the Abu Ghraib prison. He had flown to Guantánamo, where he met Major General Geoffrey Miller, in charge of Camp X-Ray. Boykin ordered Miller to fly to Iraq and extend X-Ray methods to the prison system there, on Rumsfeld's orders.

Boykin was the action hero side of his boss, Stephen Cambone, a conservative defense intellectual appointed to the new post of undersecretary of intelligence. Cambone is universally despised by the officer corps for his arrogant, abrasive and dictatorial style and regarded as the personal symbol of Rumsfeldism. A former senior Pentagon official told me of a conversation with a three-star general, who remarked: "If we were being overrun by the enemy and I had only one bullet left, I'd use it on Cambone."

more...

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0520-03.htm

[cestmoi]

1. DU should have a catalogue to capture new words.

Fundigelical is too, too funny. Thanx for the laugh.

It sounds like a STD that needs to be stomped out.

[robertpaulsen]

3. Good idea!

The catalogue should also list abbreviations, which even I sometimes get confused about, despite my penchant for using them.

[Egalitarian Zetetic]

2. Who are the dumbass 12%???

Bush's commission on public diplomacy had reported that in nine Muslim countries, just 12% believed that "Americans respect Arab/Islamic values".

[robertpaulsen]

4. LOL!

They're probably all working for Chalabi.