-I- don't know when the depths of depravity of the former adminstration will be plumbed

[Ken Tough]

Years ago we had so much discussion here on this disasterous decision
to plunge the middle east into war. We've all seen the pointlessness
and incredible cost in human lives from the Iraq war over the years.
But this is new depths of the administration's chilling strategy.

That people could so cunningly work to pull the strings of the
fundamentalist idiot in charge of the planet is not just frightening
and sickening. It's utterly disheartening that no one will really
ever care.

Rumsfeld 'Bible texts' criticised
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8056207.stm

Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been accused of
using quotes from the Bible in his
briefings to George W Bush during the Iraq War. The quotes were
placed on the cover of the briefings
alongside images of US soldiers, GQ magazine has reported.

President Bush was criticised for using the word "crusade" to
describe the US "war on terror". Critics
said he risked giving Muslims the impression that the war was a
clash between Christianity and Islam.

Defence department staff were privately worried, GQ reports, that if
the briefings with biblical quotes on
them had ever been made public, the fallout would have been "as bad
as [the revelations of prisoner abuse
at] Abu Ghraib".
[...]

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Ken Tough