Were George Bush’s Invasions In The Middlke East A Christian Crusade?

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By Chimpplanet

It seems that Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used quotes from the Bible in his briefings to George W Bush during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The quotes were placed on the cover of the briefings alongside images of US soldiers.

Palestinian Authority's first ever foreign minister Nabil Shaath claimed that Bush had said he had been "driven with a mission from God" when he sent U.S. troops into Iraq and Afghanistan.

(According to Shaath, the quotation was this:

"God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq... And I did.

"And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I'm gonna do it.")

Since George Bush’s “god” was a Christian god and Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s god is a Muslim god, and since George Bush used the world “crusade” on his war on terror against the Middle East, one can assume that the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions were a second crusade of Christians against Muslims.

US Defense department staff had privately worried, that if the Don Rumsfeld briefings with biblical quotes on them had ever been made public, the fallout would have been as bad as the revelations of prisoner torture at Abu Ghraib.


"If these official daily collages of Crusade-like messaging and war imagery had been leaked, they would have reinforced the Muslim world's apocalyptic fear that America was waging a religious war," wrote Frank Rich in the New York Times.

One cover page featured pictures of US soldiers at prayer and US tanks in Iraq, underneath a passage from the Book of Isaiah: "Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses' hoofs seem like flint, their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind."

Another briefing showed a picture of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein beneath a quotation from the First Epistle of Peter: "It is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men."

If these official daily collages of Crusade-like messaging and war imagery had been leaked, they would have reinforced the Muslim world's apocalyptic fear that America was waging a religious war.

During the Bush Administration, I read many articles that showed that the US Military was forcing soldiers to read the Christian bible and accept Jesus as their savior.

Even now, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is suing the US Government in which they argue that the Christian religion is being promoted by the U.S. military.

Today, the MRFF, noting that the U.S. military is rife with Christian fundamentalists who try to force their religion on our troops, has taken an aggressive stance against such pressure, arguing that the line separating church and state in our military has not only been blurred but excised.

It would be very difficult to convince Muslims that all the crimes against humanity committed by George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld in the Middle East during the past eight years are not “Christian” crimes and an extension of the first Crusades.


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