Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Rumsfeld's Holy War

On its Web site, GQ has published a slide show of cover sheets that accompanied intelligence updates produced by Rumsfeld's DOD for Bush. They all feature images of American soldiers in the field, and biblical quotes.

Here's one example, go to GQ for much more:



Holy war, anyone?

2 comments:

Ed said...

Ha! great stuff, thanks for bringing it to my attention. for me though the real humour comes from how BAD these army slides always seem to be... especially seeing as in theory the US Army holds the countrys "best and brightest" etc - Funny stuff

Anonymous said...

Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception
Many neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz are disciples of a philosopher who believed that the elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses.

http://www.alternet.org/story/15935

Rumsfeld too of course is a neocon. Was connected to PNAC.