Petraeus (Christian) Book 'Endorsement' Draws Fire

[sabra]

Source: Military.com

Gen. David Petraeus is used to controversy surrounding the war in Iraq, but his publicized thoughts on an Army chaplain's book for Soldiers put him squarely in the middle of the ongoing conflict over religious proselytizing in the U.S. military.

The book is "Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel," by Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) William McCoy, and according to Petraeus' published endorsement of the work, "it should be in every rucksack for those times when soldiers need spiritual energy."

But the endorsement - which has spurred a demand by a watchdog group for Petraeus' dismissal and court martial on the grounds of establishing a religious requirement on troops - was a personal view never intended for publication, the book's author now says.

"In the process of securing … comments for recommending the book I believe there was a basic misunderstanding on my part that the comments were publishable," McCoy said in an Aug. 19 email to Military.com. "This was my mistake."

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[calimary]

1. Like laura bush responded when People magazine busted her for killing her old

boyfriend in that car crash: "I'm sorry it happened, and I'm sorry it was reported."

It's the fact that it gets out in public that they don't like, the most. It just wasn't meant to have been published out in the open in black-n-white like that, is all.

[Winterblues]

2. Or as Inhofe once said "I am Outraged at the Outrage"

In referance to the release of those torture pictures..He was "Outraged" that moral people would be "Outraged" at the thought the USA would torture..

[calimary]

5. Yeah, isn't THAT a sweet one!

Sweet Jesus...

:eyes:

[katandmoon]

3. Not publishable? They why are Petraeus's comments expressed in standard blurb form?

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Onward, Republicon Crusaders. Smirk." - Commander AWOL & Allied ChristoCronies

[libodem]

9. What a great Crusader picture

So appropriate!

[No Elephants]

6. His mistake. Not Petraeus's. Riiiiiiight.

[classysassy]

7. When

will those hypocritical killers start acting like Christians?

[Supersedeas]

8. a refined definition of Bush's War for the Hearts and Minds of Arabs....at gunpoint.