Crusader Bush appoints guy who believes Muslims will burn in hell.

[G_j]

Bush's Newest Crusader
by William Fisher, TomPaine.com

Bush just appointed a guy to be deputy director of USAID who believes Muslims will burn in hell.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051201/bushs_newest_crusader.php

Bush's Newest Crusader
William Fisher
December 01, 2005


William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia for the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. This piece was originally published in The Daily Star and is reprinted with permission.

Washington is a town where the best and the brightest usually coexist with well-connected political hacks. However, the Bush administration has taken promotion of the latter to embarrassing extremes, selecting unqualified people for posts because of their political loyalty and ideological persuasion. The most recent example of this was the appointment of Paul Bonicelli to be deputy director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is in charge of all programs to promote democracy and good governance overseas.

One would have thought the administration had learned its lesson. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, was forced to resign because of his incompetence in dealing with the consequences of the storm. Soon afterward, President George W. Bush named While House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Her lack of qualifications, and a Republican revolt against the nomination, forced her to withdraw.

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More significant to the administration, perhaps, is the fact that Bonicelli is dean of academic affairs at tiny Patrick Henry College in rural Virginia. The fundamentalist institution's motto is "For Christ and Liberty." It requires that all of its 300 students sign a 10-part "statement of faith" declaring, among other things, that they believe "Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh;" that "Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead"; and that hell is a place where "all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity."


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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Who is Bush working for?

I mean, there are times I think he and Osama are in cahoots. Al Qaeda and its ilk are recruiting people for jihad because they say that Islam is threatened. Appointing bozos like this only enforces this idea.

[...of J.Temperance]

2. Junior is working for The Devil...Satan NOT Poppy is Junior's REAL

Father. I'm convinced.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. It could be.. seriously he acts like such a bumbler but his actions turn

out to have such a malevolence to them.

[...of J.Temperance]

7. Yes, and also EVERYTHING he does is the OPPOSITE of what a

Christian is supposed to do and be. He babbles on about how "Christian" he is...but can anyone name ONE thing that this bastard has done that has been Christian?

For a start, I don't call stamping on the poor, taking $700 million in food stamps off people and murdering hundreds of thousands of people by bombing them being in the SLIGHTEST Christian.

Junior works for The Dark Side, he wears the blackest of hats.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Drives me nuts dealing with fundagelicals who are against gov't

programs that assist the needy. And I know many. x(

[G_j]

9. the least of these... n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I have come to the conclusion that Bush makes appointments

such as this because he delights in rubbing people's noses in the fact that he has the power to do so. I think it has something to do with his bullying personality. It appears that he must have a list of the people who are the least qualified or most controversial to fill a position and makes his choices accordingly.

[LisaLynne]

5. I think you're on to something there.

That would go a long way to explaining a lot about what * does. It's more than just stupidity with stuff like this. Stupidity gets you only so far. To really be completely offensive all the time like he is, I think you almost have to be doing it on purpose.

[G_j]

10. looks that way doesn't it? seems to be a distinct possibility

:eyes:

[louis-t]

4. So there will be more missionaries in those countries?

No doubt this guy will encourage faith healing, baptisms, and saving of souls in countries where preaching Christianity is often illegal.
Somebody get this criminal bunch out of office!

[Swamp Rat]

11. You forgot "killing"

Remember that dude who worked for a tabloid in Florida who died from Anthrax?