Shameless
[Donald Rumsfeld] gave President George Bush secret intelligence briefs headlined with biblical quotations, in a bid to boost his standing with the deeply religious president but one that risked sparking a conflagration in the Muslim world if the papers leaked. …
The previously unreleased documents are a shocking and unusual admixture of the two realms. The cover of one intelligence briefing shows US soldiers kneeling in prayer, headlined with a selection from the book of Isaiah: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?/ Here I am Lord, send me!” The same page is covered with the classification codes and handling instructions typical to secret US government documents.
Other cover sheets released by the magazine feature images of US military vehicles and troops trudging through desert landscapes, manning a machine gun emplacement, and US soldiers inside what appears to be a posh palace once belonging to Saddam Hussein. One shows an image of Saddam speaking into a television camera and quotes 1 Peter 2:15: “It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.”
And yet Rummy remains a folk hero to the right.
