The Bush Administration redefines "Failing Upward" as being anointed

[boobooday]

This fanatical general, Boykin, who preaches that "Our God is bigger than their God" is involved in the Abu Grahib mess. Sidney Blumenthal has an excellent, and scary article about it in the Guardian. I'm sure someone already posted it, but it is here if you didn't see it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1220781,00.html

A quote:

"Boykin was recommended to his position by his record in the elite Delta forces: he was a commander in the failed effort to rescue US hostages in Iran, had tracked drug lord Pablo Escobar in Colombia, had advised the gas attack on barricaded cultists at Waco, Texas, and had lost 18 men in Somalia trying to capture a warlord in the notorious Black Hawk Down fiasco of 1993."

Boykin has described his reaction to all this failure as a spiritual crisis: "If there was a God, he would have been here to protect my soldiers." Then he realized that he was battling SATAN, and his God was better. A non sequiter of a realization to be sure, but that is how he describes it.

But this is it -- I realized why the buck never stops with George Bush! If you believe that God has already set everything up in advance, then all your failures become holy too. You can do no wrong! It's enough to put an evil smirk on your face permanently.

But the scariest part is that to these people there is no such thing as incompetence among the Lord's chosen ones. No matter what they do. This is why no one gets fired, and nothing is beyond them.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[cestmoi]

1. The photo you include says it all. Thanks for the link. nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. It gets even scarier

I've clashed with some wingnuts on another board, and they basically think it would be wonderful to kill all Muslims. I guess it had something to do with speeding along their version of Rapture. All I can say is, that kind of attitude plays right into the hands of the terrorists, because the only time you can have jihad is if people do not allow you to practice your faith.

Idiots. They are idiots.

[cestmoi]

3. For really scary, I copied a post from another thread from Editorials

making preparations...

Christian Reconstruction strategists make clear in their writings that homeschooling and Christian academies have been and continue to create the Rightist Christian cadres of the future, enabling them to place ever-increasing numbers of believers in positions of governmental influence. The training of Christian cadres is far more sophisticated than the average liberal realizes. There now stretches a network of dozens of campuses across the nation, each with its strange cultish atmosphere of smiling Christian pod people, most of them clones of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. But how many outsiders know the depth and specificity of Reconstructionist political indoctrination in these schools? For example, Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, a college exclusively for Christian homeschoolers, offers programs in strategic government intelligence, legal training and foreign policy, all with a strict, Bible-based "Christian worldview." Patrick Henry is so heavily funded by the Christian right it can offer classes below cost. In the Bush administration, seven percent of all internships are handed out to Patrick Henry students, along with many others distributed among similar religious rightist colleges. The Bush administration also recruits from the faculties of these schools, i.e. the appointments of right-wing Christian activist Kay Coles James, former dean of the Pat Robertson School of government, as director of the U.S. office of personnel. What better position than the personnel office from which to recruit more fundamentalists? Scratch any of these supposed academics and you will find a Christian Reconstructionist. I know because I have made the mistake of inviting a few of these folks to cocktail parties. One university department head told me he is moving to rural Mississippi where he can better recreate the lifestyle of the antebellum South, and its "Confederate Christian values." It gets real strange real quick.


And these folks already have enormous influence in the Republican Party, for details see http://www.TheocracyWatch.org /