With God on My Side

GQ magazine published on its website yesterday a series of covers used by the Pentagon in the daily international security reports, personally carried to the White House by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, that included Biblical statements as captions on optimistic photographs of the initial attack on the sovereign state of Iraq.

The First Amendment establishes a nation state that neither has a religious mission nor interferes with anyone's right to practice his or her religion.

This is the danger of violating that Amendment, this is the danger of turning Iraq into a holy war, if only to manipulate George W. Bush, then president. GQ suggests a cynical manipulation at work orchestrated by Rumsfeld.

Read the story and then decide whether we must have a fair and open hearing about how the Bush administration operated.

Every time Dick Cheney opens his mouth, every time we get distracted as to what and when Nancy Pelosi was told (we all knew something was wrong when the Washington Post leaked the story in 2003), whether a court forces Obama to release the interrogation photos or he does voluntarily, whether torture was used to establish a false link between Iraq and the team who planned 911, the case is being made that we have to create a structure and process for learning who, what, where, and how.

Sorry, Christine, I wanted to write something light and gardeny, but the news this morning, after a wonderful dinner last night, well, I couldn't help myself!