Holy crap is exactly what it is, Atrios

I don't know what else to say about this. My head just slowly and sadly wants to shake from side to side. What with the nights getting longer, I had a hard time waking up this morning. I'm awake now, thank you Atrios.

This summer, [General "Jerry"] Boykin was promoted to deputy undersecretary of defense, with a new mission for which many say he is uniquely qualified: to aggressively combine intelligence with special operations and hunt down so-called high-value terrorist targets including bin Laden and Saddam.

But that new assignment may be complicated by controversial views Boykin — an evangelical Christian — has expressed in dozens of speeches at churches and prayer breakfasts around the country. In a half-dozen video and audiotapes obtained by NBC News, Boykin says America’s true enemy is not bin Laden.

...The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He’s called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.”

Well, Jerry, that makes it easier, then, because I think I know where he is.

Boykin also routinely tells audiences that God, not the voters, chose President Bush: “Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.”

See? I told you that your vote wasn't counted anyway - although I thought it was because of rigging. But hey, maybe the General just hasn't gotten around to dropping the other shoe: God is....a computer. You know, I think I could buy that one. And wasn't Matrix II a huuuuuge disappointment? I'm glad to see Jerry does realize the "majority of Americans did not vote for" the Boy Blunder. And, all harumphing aside, I will be the first to admit that Jerry may just be right about this whole mess. Which would prove my contention that if God exists, he is either the biggest SOB in the Universe, or the loneliest, most self-hating and conflicted being ever to spontaneously arise, and I feel his pain.

I'll just sit here for a few minutes and wait for the lightning bolts. If none strike, I'll continue blahhhhging.

General, there are many layers to existence. The spritual one is denied by only the most narrow-minded of us. But, if you are going to play war games on this layer, then try to focus in this layer. You want good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, on a physical plane that you can bomb the holy crap out of, then let's keep 'er between the lines and off the sidewalks. 'kay?

During a January church speech in Daytona, Fla., Boykin recalled a Muslim fighter in Somalia who bragged on television the Americans would never get him because his God, Allah, would protect him: “Well, you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.”

My god's bigger than your god. Very mature, General. I'm glad to see that the grownups are back in control.

This is John Ashcroft talking. And these people are in high positions in our country. Get these folks impeached and out of there, or don your AFDBs and grab your fiddles.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.