smirk has 1000s of christian missionarys in Iraq - do you know this?

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Fri Jul-23-04 12:39 PM
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smirk has 1000s of christian missionarys in Iraq - do you know this?

I didn't, I thought it was only a few

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/07/int04037.html

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Mark Crispin Miller: Well, if we start with that war, you're absolutely right. The American people are unaware of the extent to which Iraq has been overrun by Christian missionaries, primarily Southern Baptists. The International Mission Board has thousands of Americans operating in Iraq, with most of them, it seems, intent primarily on saving souls -- converting Muslims. They bring material inducements with them. They have clean water, blankets, food. They're basically trying to barter an enlargement of the world's Christian community -- which is a dangerous provocation, because Muslims see such apostasy as a capital offense. So some of these missionaries, as you may know, have been assassinated. Once we put it all together, we can see quite clearly that "George sees this as a religious war," as reported by a close relation of the president's in The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty, by Peter and Rochelle Schweizer.

So this is not just a geo-political game, or just a bid to hog the global oil supply. It is fundamentally a religious war. The guy who's now in charge of counter-terrorism efforts in the theater of war is William "Jerry" Boykin, who used to go to fundamentalist churches in his full dress uniform and talk about the enemy being a guy named Satan, and claim that Bush was chosen by the Lord to be our president. The guy is a fanatic. And far from urging him to curb his zealous outbursts, his bosses at the Pentagon promoted him after that controversy. Now he is one of the most influential people giving orders in Iraq and thereabouts. You may also recall that our troops were given pamphlets urging them to pray for Bush, and to pray that he stand tough against all criticism.

Now all of this puts Bush on the same level with America's Islamist enemies. It's also what makes Bush & Co. so weirdly reminiscent of past totalitarian movements. All the major war-drives in modern history -- in Germany, in the Soviet Union, and in the Middle East -- have been impelled by people who believed that they were at risk, that they were being persecuted, that they faced annihilation. Hitler actually believed that "world Jewry" threatened Germany, and that his bloody enterprise was a means of self-defense against the Jews. We know all too well that al-Qaeda's people universally regard the Jews and Christians as plotting to wipe out Islam. And the Christo-fascist types now in control of the United States believe that they're the victims of non-Christians. Rush Limbaugh's brother, David, has written a book called Persecution, whose thesis is that Christians are a persecuted minority in the United States. There's a picture of a lion on the cover. It's insane.
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