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| + | * '''2009-05-17''' [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/05/gods_own_war.php God's Own War] ([[PZ Myers]]): "It's appalling on so many levels: that Rumsfeld thought that polishing up his report with the jingoistic equivalent of a clear plastic binder would win him points; that it apparently worked; that [[religion]] was used to promote war in the White House; that it was used despite the fact that it could worsen our chances of success. And we still have [[Dick Cheney]] doing a cheerful media tour encouraging us to support [[torture]], which really wasn't torture, but if it was, it was good for us. .. We lived under the rule of monsters for eight years. We can't just pretend it didn't happen, we need to fight back in the courts to condemn these people and their actions." | ||
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<let name=data index=TextShort>“...[[Donald Rumsfeld|Rumsfeld]] approved [a collection of daily cover sheets] 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 [[George W. Bush|Bush]] each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by [[biblical]] quotations. GQ is [http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret posting] 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.”</let> | <let name=data index=TextShort>“...[[Donald Rumsfeld|Rumsfeld]] approved [a collection of daily cover sheets] 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 [[George W. Bush|Bush]] each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by [[biblical]] quotations. GQ is [http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret posting] 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.”</let> | ||
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