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	<title>Comments on: Christian Cover Pages for President Bush&#8217;s Intelligence Briefings</title>
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	<description>by Hemant Mehta</description>
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		<title>By: RobL</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310599</link>
		<dc:creator>RobL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was too over the top for me to believe  but after looking at some of the reporting going on related to it I think it’s legit.  No wonder the Muslims think we are waging a holy war against them – apparently we are.  Another Dr. Strangelove moment in the Bush administration.   Once again proving that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was too over the top for me to believe  but after looking at some of the reporting going on related to it I think it’s legit.  No wonder the Muslims think we are waging a holy war against them – apparently we are.  Another Dr. Strangelove moment in the Bush administration.   Once again proving that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron.</p>
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		<title>By: Siamang</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310489</link>
		<dc:creator>Siamang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mark Says:


&lt;blockquote&gt;I think its fake&lt;/blockquote&gt;

No.  They&#039;re real:









&lt;blockquote&gt;This Sunday, GQ magazine is posting on its Web site an article adding new details to the ample dossier on how Donald Rumsfeld’s corrupt and incompetent Defense Department cost American lives and compromised national security. The piece is not the work of a partisan but the Texan journalist Robert Draper, author of “Dead Certain,” the 2007 Bush biography that had the blessing (and cooperation) of the former president and his top brass. It draws on interviews with more than a dozen high-level Bush loyalists.

Draper reports that Rumsfeld’s monomaniacal determination to protect his Pentagon turf led him to hobble and antagonize America’s most willing allies in Iraq, Britain and Australia, and even to undermine his own soldiers. But Draper’s biggest find is a collection of daily cover sheets that Rumsfeld approved for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html?_r=2&amp;ref=opinion

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 These cover sheets were the brainchild of Major General Glen Shaffer, a director for intelligence serving both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense. In the days before the Iraq war, Shaffer’s staff had created humorous covers in an attempt to alleviate the stress of preparing for battle. Then, as the body counting began, Shaffer, a Christian, deemed the biblical passages more suitable. Several others in the Pentagon disagreed. At least one Muslim analyst in the building had been greatly offended; others privately worried that if these covers were leaked during a war conducted in an Islamic nation, the fallout—as one Pentagon staffer would later say—“would be as bad as Abu Ghraib.”

But the Pentagon’s top officials were apparently unconcerned about the effect such a disclosure might have on the conduct of the war or on Bush’s public standing. When colleagues complained to Shaffer that including a religious message with an intelligence briefing seemed inappropriate, Shaffer politely informed them that the practice would continue, because “my seniors”—JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and the commander in chief himself—appreciated the cover pages.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_9217</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mark Says:</p>
<blockquote><p>I think its fake</p></blockquote>
<p>No.  They&#8217;re real:</p>
<blockquote><p>This Sunday, GQ magazine is posting on its Web site an article adding new details to the ample dossier on how Donald Rumsfeld’s corrupt and incompetent Defense Department cost American lives and compromised national security. The piece is not the work of a partisan but the Texan journalist Robert Draper, author of “Dead Certain,” the 2007 Bush biography that had the blessing (and cooperation) of the former president and his top brass. It draws on interviews with more than a dozen high-level Bush loyalists.</p>
<p>Draper reports that Rumsfeld’s monomaniacal determination to protect his Pentagon turf led him to hobble and antagonize America’s most willing allies in Iraq, Britain and Australia, and even to undermine his own soldiers. But Draper’s biggest find is a collection of daily cover sheets that Rumsfeld approved for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html?_r=2&#038;ref=opinion" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html?_r=2&#038;ref=opinion</a></p>
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 These cover sheets were the brainchild of Major General Glen Shaffer, a director for intelligence serving both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense. In the days before the Iraq war, Shaffer’s staff had created humorous covers in an attempt to alleviate the stress of preparing for battle. Then, as the body counting began, Shaffer, a Christian, deemed the biblical passages more suitable. Several others in the Pentagon disagreed. At least one Muslim analyst in the building had been greatly offended; others privately worried that if these covers were leaked during a war conducted in an Islamic nation, the fallout—as one Pentagon staffer would later say—“would be as bad as Abu Ghraib.”</p>
<p>But the Pentagon’s top officials were apparently unconcerned about the effect such a disclosure might have on the conduct of the war or on Bush’s public standing. When colleagues complained to Shaffer that including a religious message with an intelligence briefing seemed inappropriate, Shaffer politely informed them that the practice would continue, because “my seniors”—JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and the commander in chief himself—appreciated the cover pages.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_9217" rel="nofollow">http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_9217</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jason R</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310482</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason R</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was in the military during the early 1990&#039;s.  We received notices like that regarding the Russians quite often.  It&#039;s nothing new, they just point it towards a different foe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was in the military during the early 1990&#8242;s.  We received notices like that regarding the Russians quite often.  It&#8217;s nothing new, they just point it towards a different foe.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310469</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He called it a crusade in public at least once.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He called it a crusade in public at least once.</p>
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		<title>By: Ian</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310444</link>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doh,

Okay so I worked it out. The world&#039;s most bizarre date/time system.

DDHHMM EST Month YY

Could you design a more obscure format?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doh,</p>
<p>Okay so I worked it out. The world&#8217;s most bizarre date/time system.</p>
<p>DDHHMM EST Month YY</p>
<p>Could you design a more obscure format?</p>
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		<title>By: Ian</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310442</link>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Should we be even more worried that the second intelligence briefing originated at

310530 EST on Mar 3 ?

Being bible-based barbarians is one thing, thinking there are thirty two hours in the day is quite another...

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Although on second thoughts I find the poor graphic design quite offensive too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should we be even more worried that the second intelligence briefing originated at</p>
<p>310530 EST on Mar 3 ?</p>
<p>Being bible-based barbarians is one thing, thinking there are thirty two hours in the day is quite another&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p>Although on second thoughts I find the poor graphic design quite offensive too.</p>
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		<title>By: laterose</title>
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		<dc:creator>laterose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 05:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What bothers me most of the really horrible graphic design.  It&#039;s not even consistent.  Whoever does the layouts needs to have their layout program taken away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What bothers me most of the really horrible graphic design.  It&#8217;s not even consistent.  Whoever does the layouts needs to have their layout program taken away.</p>
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		<title>By: mark</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/17/christian-cover-pages-for-president-bushs-intelligence-briefings/#comment-310397</link>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 04:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think its fake

someone perhaps took a real breifing book and pasted the christian stuff with a computer and then pretended it was legit.

I&#039;m not convinced there is anything real here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think its fake</p>
<p>someone perhaps took a real breifing book and pasted the christian stuff with a computer and then pretended it was legit.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not convinced there is anything real here.</p>
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		<title>By: orDover</title>
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		<dc:creator>orDover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 03:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll be really interested to see how the Christian community will react to this news, if these are indeed proven to be real. I wonder if they&#039;ll be outraged, or if they&#039;ll just react as if it is something they already knew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be really interested to see how the Christian community will react to this news, if these are indeed proven to be real. I wonder if they&#8217;ll be outraged, or if they&#8217;ll just react as if it is something they already knew.</p>
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		<title>By: VorlonGuyverOss</title>
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		<dc:creator>VorlonGuyverOss</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 02:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Should these pictures prove to be real then the whole 8 years will be a nail in the coffin in the Bush administration, the party, and people responsible for putting them there.  

11 September 2001 put a sour taste of religious ideology in the minds of Americans and the world that saw the ramifications of the event.

***  Could the &quot;conspiracy theorists&quot; have some valid information?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should these pictures prove to be real then the whole 8 years will be a nail in the coffin in the Bush administration, the party, and people responsible for putting them there.  </p>
<p>11 September 2001 put a sour taste of religious ideology in the minds of Americans and the world that saw the ramifications of the event.</p>
<p>***  Could the &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; have some valid information?</p>
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