Bush Calls U.S. a Nation of Prayer

[ProSense]

Bush Calls U.S. a Nation of Prayer

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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday that America's history is inexorably tied to prayer.

"America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray," Bush said during a White House celebration of the National Day of Prayer. "At decisive moments in our history and in quiet times around family tables, we are a people humbled and strengthened and blessed by prayer."

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"In my travels across the great land, a comment that I hear often from our fellow citizens is, `Mr. President, I pray for you and your family.' It's amazing how many times a total stranger walks up and says that to me," Bush said. "You'd think they'd say, `How about the bridge?' Or, `How about filling the potholes?' No, they say, `I've come to tell you I pray for you, Mr. President'."

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"We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs," the president said. "In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060504/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_prayer

Is prayer in Spanish allowed?


Star-spangled Spanish draws Bush's red glare
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0429bushA1-0429.html

[AussieDave]

1. Right now, I don't think the U.S. has even that - a prayer

The last refuge of a bunch of clowns who have no other idea of what to do..............

[ncteechur]

2. That may very well be true. I pray every day that Bush is impeached.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. So is Iran. Apparantly, Gawd is on our/their side simultaneously.

[adriennui]

4. and i call bush a piece of turd

[rzemanfl]

5. I'm not religious at all. Is praying some dumbass from Texas

would die and hit the switch on the microwave when Cheney is in the room on his way to the floor considered praying, or just wishful thinking?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. A nation of prayer that has preyed on many third world democracies

that smelt a little too much of socialism and national independance.


http://www.zmag.org/crisescurevts/interventions.htm
A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS:
From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan
Compiled by Zoltan Grossman
(revised 09/20/01)

Grossman: Killing Civilians
The List (Printing)

U.S. military spending ($343 billion in the year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that of the next five highest nations combined. Russia, which has the second largest military budget, spends less than one-sixth what the United States does. Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, Iran, and Syria spend $14.4 billion combined; Iran accounts for 52 percent of this total.


The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 1999. This guide does NOT include demonstration duty by military police, mobilizations of the National Guard, offshore shows of naval strength, reinforcements of embassy personnel, the use of non-Defense Department personnel (such as the Drug Enforcement Agency), military exercises, non-combat mobilizations (such as replacing postal strikers), the permanent stationing of armed forces, covert actions where the U.S. did not play a command and control role, the use of small hostage rescue units, most uses of proxy troops, U.S. piloting of foreign warplanes, foreign disaster assistance, military training and advisory programs not involving direct combat, civic action programs, and many other military activities. <

Among sources used, besides news reports, are the Congressional Record (23 June 1969), 180 Landings by the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, Ege & Makhijani in Counterspy (July-Aug. 1982), and Daniel Ellsberg in Protest & Survive. "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993" by Ellen C. Collier of the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service.

[bluerum]

7. I pray - that someone will wipe this dumbass out. nt

[Rob H.]

8. Yeah. As if a "total stranger" could get anywhere near him.

Whatever, George. :eyes:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all

Of course that means only any Christian faith you choose and if you do choose no faith at all you will be promptly ostracized from society and hopefully, before we are done, to do such will be a criminal offense.