Rumsfeld’s Biblical War Briefings
The magazine GQ has managed to dig up the covers from Donald Rumsfeld’s top-secret daily intelligence briefing reports, which were delivered by Rumsfeld himself to the White House to be read by Bush and company.
These uber-classified reports from the first weeks of the Iraq War are adorned with photos of fighter jets, praying soldiers, and convoys rolling through the sand, juxtaposed with heavy bible quotes, such as “Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, The Nation that keeps faith. (Isaiah 26:2)” above a photo of U.S. tanks driving into an Iraqi city’s gateway. The use of biblical prophesies as captioning of pictures of the U.S. military’s operations seems to suggest that Rumsfeld or the White House believed that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a fulfillment of biblical predictions.
