Update: Having it Ten Percent of Both Ways

How timely.  Shortly after my post "Having it Ten Percent of Both Ways", GQ magazine obtained and released the cover sheets from a series of intelligence updates that Donald Rumsfeld prepared for President Bush in the months leading up to and into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Each cover sheet comes complete with its own motivational verse from the Bible.

There is nothing else to say, really.  It is not all that shocking that there was a "higher cause" for those who orchestrated these wars.

What pains me is that so many people who call themselves Republicans and Americans would think that this is acceptable in a "free" nation.  Our founders saw the need for the government to be secular.  It is fine for elected officials to be religious, but when their religion becomes the motivation and justification for action it crosses the line of what is lawful and right.

For your viewing pleasure:  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/intel_it_on_the_mountain_rumsfelds_bush_briefings/intel_it_on_the_mountain_rumsfelds_bush_briefings.html#ph11

Ugh.