And so to every sailor, soldier, airman, and marine who is involved in this mission,

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let me say you're doing God's work.

So said Bush I when he sent soldiers into Somalia in 1992. God's work does not involved US government soldiers. In America it involves Christians, Jews, and others with faith.

Read Murray Rothbard's article about it, written at the time it occured. See how many names you recognize that are in the current Bush Regime, or support it vocally, and how many of the same tired concepts spoken of today, were used by Bush I then.

In his scintillating article on the Somalian incursion, Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, one of the few left-liberals who remains staunchly anti-foreign intervention, quotes the above words from our recent president. (Lewis H. Lapham, "God's Gunboats," Harpers Magazine, February) Lapham notes that Bush issued his "prelate's benediction" to the troops even though lacking "both the miter and the shepherd's staff." He also notes -- in a timely reminder to those conservatives who have not yet re-examined their devotion to the preceding president -- that on that very same December day Ronnie Reagan, speaking at Oxford University, urged the United Nations to develop "an army of conscience" to confront the "evil (that) still stalks the planet" even after the death of the Soviet Union. Since it is difficult to imagine evil stamped out from the world very quickly, this presumably implies a permanent standing world army to vanquish and keep down evil and sin in whatever quarter of the globe they might raise their ugly heads. In short, a permanent global Crusade.http://tinyurl.com/mfb7a