Sensible Erection | Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.

quote [ The sheets juxtaposed war images with inspirational Bible quotes and were delivered by Rumsfeld himself. ]

Briefings covered in bible verse and "inspirational war images". Really, could there be anything left about that admin that would surprise me? What a bunch of fraking hypocrites. Direct link to images in extended.

Images published at GQ: http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

[politics] [by sythe@8:57pmGMT] [+10 WTF]

Comments

Ronin.ca said @ 8:58pm GMT on 17th May
Basically what they are describing is a briefing book for an illiterate...

Krutz said @ 9:03pm GMT on 17th May [Score:2 Insightful]
My dad has been reading a lot of American history as he nears retirement, focusing on the founders up through Lincoln, mostly. He's recounted numerous events in our nation's past where we came about a hair away from becoming a dictatorship, imploding, or just plain falling apart into disaster.

The more of this stuff I see, the more I think we just lived through one of those events.

KingPellinore said @ 9:08pm GMT on 17th May
Couldn't agree more.

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:31am GMT on 18th May
And roughly under the same ppl (under the Nixon Administration).

hellboy said @ 2:51am GMT on 18th May [Score:1 Insightful]
Not a hair away from becoming a dictatorship, a hair away from staying one (read the last paragraph).

flat_michael said @ 6:30pm GMT on 18th May
scary shit

nbob said @ 12:22pm GMT on 19th May
I would hope this is obvious by now, if not even then.

bbqkink said @ 9:03pm GMT on 17th May
Please tell me this is not the answer I have been looking for all these years
to the question of why did we invade Iraq?

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld prepared top-secret military intelligence briefs for former President George W. Bush with cover sheets featuring triumphant images from the Iraq war with "Crusades-like" Bible messages,

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/05/rumsfeld-gave-b.html

sythe said @ 9:04pm GMT on 17th May [Score:1 Underrated]
He tried to kill his dad.

bbqkink said @ 9:07pm GMT on 17th May
or that one. religious crazy or just plain crazy not sure which is more scary.
Either one goes too close to dictatorship in comment above .

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:29am GMT on 18th May [Score:-1 Overrated]
I'm sorry... I still think we would have been better under the Tamp/Madpride/Snakewood administration.

cb361 said @ 11:43pm GMT on 17th May
Hello. My name is George W Bush. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:27am GMT on 18th May
You do not by any chance happen to have 6 fingers on your right hand do you?

bbqkink said @ 9:09pm GMT on 17th May [Score:3 Funny]

assbastard said @ 11:00pm GMT on 17th May
That's from the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson. There are plenty of 'em out there.

f00m@nB@r said @ 12:18am GMT on 18th May [Score:1 Good]
with audio:

ComposerNate said @ 9:11pm GMT on 17th May [Score:3 Underrated]

benjamander said @ 10:47pm GMT on 17th May [Score:1 Underrated]
+1 here here!

luzifer said @ 7:17am GMT on 19th May

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_hear

ckfahrenheit said @ 11:07pm GMT on 17th May
I'm kind of surprised the US national anthem doesn't have the word "god" in it.

ckfahrenheit said @ 11:08pm GMT on 17th May
O snap, NM.
It does, in the 4th stanza. Which is a creepy verse right there

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:25am GMT on 18th May
Subtle, wasn't it. ;)

Transfer said @ 9:20pm GMT on 17th May

atter_cob said @ 9:32pm GMT on 17th May [Score:1 Informative]
Someone stole her nipples.

damnit said @ 11:42pm GMT on 17th May
without them, tits would be pointless.

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:22am GMT on 18th May
You're really trying to milk that pun.

damnit said @ 12:54am GMT on 18th May
Hehe. You remembered when I posted the same pun a few days ago. You have great mammary.

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:26am GMT on 18th May
True... sometimes with these puns, keeping abreast can really be a handful.

antares said @ 10:49am GMT on 18th May
... so it's not just a storm in a D-Cup?

Amul Muzz said @ 9:33pm GMT on 17th May

These guys are good live, the bass tickles your spleen.

swiggy said @ 8:07am GMT on 18th May
somewhere, a transhumanist is fapping.

Naruki said @ 10:23pm GMT on 17th May
I could swear I saw this guy in Snellville GA wearing a wig and a moustache...

ckfahrenheit said @ 10:24pm GMT on 17th May

Deuteronomy 7:2
2 And when the LORD your God has delivered them [enemies in war] over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

wat. I ought to buy me a used bible. Sounds hardcore.

devolutionary said @ 10:34pm GMT on 17th May
Gotta give the early editors credit - they gave themselves a shit load of room to move.

holylolcatz said @ 10:48pm GMT on 17th May
1 Oh hai itz deuteronomy 7!!!112!1 @ wen teh Ceiling Cat brings youz to a place an drivez out all teh other pplz who were der befor youz- 2 an wen teh Ceiling Cat haz given dem peepz to youz an you haz PWNED dem, den you must kill dem lolz. show dem no mercy from yer 1337 skillz. 3 dun git married to der chikz an dudez. dun giv yer childrenz to dem, 4 for dey will basikally make yer childrenz hate youz ad teh Ceiling Cat, and teh Ceiling Cat will be super-pizzed an will smite you wit his 1337 skillz. 5 ok so dis iz wut you do to dem peepz: basikally be leik ALL YER BASEZ ARE BELONG TO US and den deztroy everyting. 6 cuz you are loyal to teh Ceiling Cat. an teh Ceiling Cat luvz you.

devolutionary said @ 10:35pm GMT on 17th May
I mod you up for the lolz. I mod them down because they need a half fucking decent design artist. They may as well used pure evil fucking tags

ring riot said @ 10:37pm GMT on 17th May
Yeah, just recently, some soldiers were videotaped saying they were hunting Arabs for Jesus. Fucking frightening.

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:20am GMT on 18th May
and he was the PR rep!

Krutz said @ 1:49am GMT on 18th May
Not that I'd want to ever confront a man with a gun over this, but I'd love to ask and have answered honestly:

If you worship an all-powerful omnipresent god, what does he need YOU doing ANYTHING for? If he wants someone killed, why would he send some pissant who could just be crazy-go-nuts over religion instead of doing some indisputably miraculous smack-down on his target that might convince those in the vicinity to convert?

joeyjoejoe said @ 1:59am GMT on 18th May
This is similar to what I call Joeyjoejoe's Fundamental Question of Religion:

"If God is mad at me, how is that your problem?"

I am a spiritual person. I belive in God. If you don't, that's just not my problem. I don't care.

Naruki said @ 3:26am GMT on 18th May [Score:1 Insightful]
Hmm, no, I don't think that's similar.

Krutz was wondering why people had to attack others in the name of God.
You are saying that your passive beliefs are none of anyone's business.

Besides these two sentences having the same length in a monospaced font, there really is nothing very similar between them.

sythe said @ 4:49am GMT on 18th May
I believe he was expressing that he is religious yet cares not for the religious beliefs of others. i.e. he is an example of what Krutz was hoping to see in others.

Naruki said @ 6:21am GMT on 18th May
I believe that's neither what Krutz said nor implied. He was responding to a comment about psycho Christians actively murdering "in the name of God". He said he'd like to know what those psychos think is the reason an all-powerful god needs them to do his dirty work.

In other words, why are they actively doing something because God needs their help.

jjj was just saying he keeps his beliefs to himself.

jjj's idea (private beliefs) has nothing to do with the psychos' (public actions).

Specifically, jjj's answer to his own question is "it's not", because whatever God does to jjj doesn't involve anyone else.

But the psychos' answer to his question is "it's still just your problem, but it's our concern" because they are doing what God apparently is powerless to do for Himself. And Krutz wants to know why they think their omnipotent God is so helpless.

joeyjoejoe said @ 7:26am GMT on 18th May
Perhaps I should have expounded, but you've restated excellently what I also meant. I would imagine that their omnipotent god shouldn't need their help.

And scythe, I think you got my point. But I do not consider myself religious in that I follow no particular dogma.

Naruki said @ 7:59am GMT on 18th May
Yeah, you're more of a karma chaser. Ruff ruff!

hellboy said @ 5:54pm GMT on 18th May [Score:1 Insightful]
"If God is mad at me, how is that your problem?"

If you think your God is telling you to kill other people in order to get back on his good side, that's everyone's problem.

sanepride said @ 3:23am GMT on 18th May [Score:2]
Above all else we should not forget that Rumsfeld was Cheney's man.

utah said @ 9:08am GMT on 19th May
When I saw this come up on the BBC's website, just for a second I thought he'd written "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" on every briefing. I'm not religious, but I'd still be cool with that.