Ethics

Christian Nationalism at the Pentagon

By Ed Brayton

GQ, of all magazines, has a slideshow of cover letters that were attached to intelligence updates sent from Donald Rumsfeld to President Bush in early 2003 as the administration prepared to invade Iraq. The mixture of military imagery with Bible verses is appalling, especially in the buildup to a war the administration tried so hard not to have perceived as a religious war.

The first, from March 17, 2003, has a picture of soldiers praying and says:

Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

"Here I am, Lord, send me." Isaiah 6:8

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).