General William Boykin is retiring

[Poiuyt]

General who likened war on terror to battle with Satan to retire

An army general who led the Pentagon's effort to hunt down Osama bin Laden and once likened the war on terror to a Christian struggle against Satan is retiring, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

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A devout evangelical Christian, he gained notoriety for a series of videotaped appearances at churches across the United States in 2003 in which he vividly portrayed the war on terrorism as a fight with Satan.

In a speech to a group in Oregon in June 2003, Boykin said radical Islamists hated the United States "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian ... and the enemy is a guy named Satan."

In another speech describing a battle with a Somali warlord, he said, "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."

His comments ran counter to administration assertions that it was not at war with Islam and set off a storm of criticism.

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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/General_who_likened_war_on_terror_t_05212007.html

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1. So little time

So many bastards that need retirement or jailtime or some other alternative.......

Just get them the fuck away from the running--and ruining--of our country.

[EFerrari]

2. "So little time, so many bastards."

So true.

[seafan]

3. Remember the chaplain forcing soldiers to be baptized first, before allowing them water for bathing?

I don't think Jesus would have approved.


April 11, 2003

In the current war in Iraq, an evangelical Christian chaplain has been using coercive Graham-style tactics at Camp Bushmaster near Najaf. Army 5th Corps chaplain Josh Llano, apparently exploiting a water shortage which has forced soldiers to go without bathing, has used a 500-gallon pool of pristine, cool water under his control to gain converts.

"It's simple," Llano told a Knight-Ridder reporter. "They want water. I have it, as long as they agree to get baptized."

And now, General William Boykin, who compared the war on terror to a battle between Christians and Satan is on his way out, finally.



One of the most corrosive legacies to America by George W. Bush is his forced merger of church and state.

[Zenlitened]

4. What a stellar career. He "led the Pentagon's effort to hunt down Osama bin Laden."

Too bad nobody told him to "hunt down AND CATCH" Osama bin Laden. :crazy:

[Solly Mack]

5. Guess Osama's was bigger...

[Louis C. Phurye]

6. Retirement for him will mean a seat on the board of Lockheed Martin.

He'll still being dealing death, you just watch.

[Postman]

7. They couldn't make him "War Czar"?

n/t

[KittyWampus]

8. Boykin advised on the Waco Disaster. Although the loonies tried to blame Wes Clark

as having a direct influence on that massacre.