Bush's "evildoers" them and "wrongdoers" us = Evangelical codespeak

[TheWebHead]

Found this interesting nugget on christianity.com:

King David of Israel once wrote about "friendly fire." In the 37th Psalm he began with these words, "Do not fret because of evildoers, be not envious toward wrongdoers." The word fret means "to become heated." The idea was that someone did something that caused your blood to boil. Now there are two kinds of people who can get you all fired up. The Bible calls them evildoers and wrongdoers. Evildoers are people who just don't like you and will fire upon you anytime they have the opportunity. Wrongdoers on the other hand, are people who don't mean to hurt you but somehow it just happens. David was talking about "friendly fire." And, unfortunately, all of us are going to be burned by it from time to time.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:a2wlk_NSG5AJ:resources.christianity.com/servlets/PlaylistBuilder%3Fstoreid%3Dchristianity%26id%3D20846%26media%3Dword_application%26bandwidth%3DFriendly_Fire%26fileext%3Ddoc+%22wrongdoers%22+evildoers%22&hl=en

Not that I think Bush has ever even opened a bible, but no doubt he was advised by Hughes and/or Rove to insert these distinctive codewords to separate "us good Christians with those hellbound Muslims."

[Political_Junkie]

1. That's explains why he refers to

the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib photos as "wrongdoers" guess they didn't mean to hurt us with those photos.

edited for spelling

[TheWebHead]

5. yeah I should've provided that context

he's used it a couple times... including Saturday's radio address:

What took place in that Iraqi prison was the wrongdoing of a few, and does not reflect the character of the more than 200,000 military personnel who have served in Iraq since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

the first reference was Bush with Abdullah saying: "I've told His Majesty as plainly as I could that the wrongdoers will be brought to justice and that the actions of those folks in Iraq do not represent the values of the United States of America."

[Failure]

CROSSFIRE NOW...Walker (R) says "Wrongdoers"

[mirandaod]

2. Oh, so that's what that little squirrel brain

of his was thinking. I wondered about it when I heard him call them "wrongdoers", as opposed to "evildoers". Thanks for the explanation.

[boobooday]

3. I noticed that he made the distinction right away

It stuck out. The American torturers were "wrongdoers."

These people are beyond sick.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Don_G]

4. If You're A Self-Centered Asshole

Then anything that happens or anything is said that you don't like is "evil" and "they" do it.

Wrongdoers is like a pet owner trying to baptize a cat with shampoo and water; it's wrong and unnecessary from the cat's point of view but needed nonetheless.

Dimbo needs to be baptized next November.