Christian Nation?

When I woke up this morning I was in a good mood. I went online to read the sunday papers, and ran into the following article. Considering the great push by the republicans to remind us all that this is a christian nation, and that today is Sunday, the christian "sabbath", I thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone what Bush and Co. mean when they say christian.

From the NYT this morning, an article titled "Army Faltered in Investigating Detainee Abuse".
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"Despite autopsy findings of homicide and statements by soldiers that two prisoners died after being struck by guards at an American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, Army investigators initially recommended closing the case without bringing any criminal charges, documents and interviews show."
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"Military lawyers noted that the autopsies of the two dead detainees had found severe trauma to both prisoners' legs - injuries that a coroner later compared to the effect of being run over by a bus. They also acknowledged statements by more than half a dozen guards that they or others had struck the detainees. But the lawyers and other officers did not press for a fuller accounting, two officers said in interviews."
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"As late as Feb. 7 - nearly two months after the first autopsy reports had classified both deaths as homicides - the American commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Daniel K. McNeill, said in an interview that he had "no indication" that either man had been injured in custody.

General McNeill, who has since been promoted, declined repeated requests to clarify his remarks."
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Two intelligence officers estimated that about 85 percent of the prisoners were ultimately released. Still, most new detainees at Bagram were hooded, shackled and isolated for at least 24 hours and sometimes as long as 72 hours, the commander of the military police guards at Bagram, Capt. Christopher M. Beiring, told investigators. Prisoners caught in infractions like talking to one another were handcuffed to cell doors or ceilings, often for half an hour or an hour, but sometimes for far longer."
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"Many of the guards who later provided important testimony were also initially overlooked. Computer records and written logs that were supposed to record treatment of the detainees were not secured and later disappeared. Blood taken from Mr. Habibullah was stored in a butter dish in the agents' office refrigerator, from which it was only recovered - or "seized" as a report explains it - when the office was later moved."
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Bush and the powers that be must have a different interpertation of what it means to be a christian than I do. Where in the bible does Jesus endorse brutality? I need to get a copy of Bush's bible, it seems to be a bit different than mine. The repubs condemed Newsweek, when will they condem themselves for the wanton evil they have unleashed on the world?

Oh, wait, we are still better than Saddam, rrriighttt?

2+2=5

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