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Palin: Iraq is a task ‘from God.’

thinkprogress.org — "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That ’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan."

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  • thejimmyo, on 09/02/2008, -2/+29FTA:

    "During that speech, Palin also promoted a $30-billion natural gas pipeline project, stating, 'God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built.' "
    • algaeturd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8Amen. Republicans will do anything to 'fulfill God's plan' of an oil pipeline.
      • SQLDigger, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Oh, yes, I'd much rather someone invent the ideal liberal vehicle. An engine that runs on *****.
  • diggFunction, on 09/02/2008, -32/+3The democrats are systematically trying to destroy Palin like they did Hillary. To bad it is not going to work.
    • alapoet, on 09/02/2008, -3/+22The Democrats don' t to do anything at all to destroy Palin.

      She's doing a bang-up job of that, all by herself.
    • Evilena, on 09/03/2008, -3/+10The Republicans are systematically trying to turn Sarah Palin into Hillary Clinton in people's minds for no reason other than they have the same sexual anatomy. To bad it is not going to work.
    • algaeturd, on 09/03/2008, -2/+5You ***** idiot. This woman has done everything she can to sabotage her own career. That's apparent to everybody except those of you with absolutely no common sense or intelligence.
      This isn't the work of the democrats. did they get her teenage unwed daughter pregnant?
      Did they make her join a succession organization in alaska? How about the quotes in the article there? OBVIOUSLY A SMEAR!
      Repugs are hypocrites to the highest degree. It's sickening how you can manipulate and justify anything you want when the circumstances suit you or your agenda.
      Teenage pregnancy good now! YES! Just ask the hypocritical evangelicals!
      This woman is an easy target because she's made a lot of bad decisions and a lot questionable comments publicly.
  • johnnr2, on 09/02/2008, -2/+22I speak to G*d and I know what's best for you.
  • Falldog, on 09/02/2008, -1/+17"That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan."

    See, I heard that, and interpret it as "Hey, God, you're there right? Well, um, you know this whole Iraq business? Well it's in your plan, right? Right? Well, um, if not, could you work it in? Maybe just a little? 'Cause we're really up ***** creek with this one. If you put it in your plan then it's like, whew, load off my mind. Oh, before I forget, could you check to see if President Bush has a plan too? It doesn't really sound like he has one and hopefully you could help him a tad. Maybe slide a plan under his pillow as he sleeps? Thanks Jesus!"

  • chrissku, on 09/02/2008, -1/+32Sheesh...this lady scares me.
    • jeremyduffy, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3Anyone who claims to know "God's Plan" scares me. Even more scary are the people who think "God's Plan" includes such mundane things as invading another country. Besides, you know the first time that something bad happens to America, it will be "bad luck" instead of "God's Plan".
  • MadKennyP, on 09/02/2008, -2/+26Bristol Palin: "Mom. It was God's will that that boy put his penis inside me."
    • MisterWonderful, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10God is ***** really busy doing all this mundane *****.
    • contemplate, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9at least she didn't claim virgin birth...ouch, my bad, couldn't resist, sorry madonna
  • MattFromSeattle, on 09/02/2008, -1/+5Oh Jeebus...
  • thejimmyo, on 09/02/2008, -0/+9Palin, incidentally, has never been to Iraq.

    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Palin_has_never_ ...
    • eclipse007, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1No worries, that was also God's plan.
  • tatjana77, on 09/02/2008, -0/+12I talk to God and it's his plan that America elect someone intelligent for the first time in 16 years.
  • xekko, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9You can't arugue when it's God's will.

    It's God's will that... (insert any statement that agrees with your predefined religious world view here)
    • meirav, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Sadly, it's not a statement that agrees with any religious worldview. No religion addresses an oil pipeline. This is a statement that simply agrees with a political goal or with a person's own desire.
  • duggedup, on 09/03/2008, -1/+9I'll never understand why seemingly intelligent people think God is like some comic book hero. I hope some day humans grow up.
    • meirav, on 09/03/2008, -2/+1Comic book hero? A comic book hero has the free choice to act as he sees fit. This "god" is a cosmic genie.
  • Carv, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10Reminds me of how George Bush said God told him to invade Iraq. With McCain's policies and Sarah Palin's ability to make me laugh at what she says, we can have another four or eight years of Bush!
  • Responder656, on 09/03/2008, -2/+10http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjAegPhQOUg

    "Christianity, along with all other theistic belief systems [...] empowers those who know the truth, but uses the myth to manipulate and control societies. [...] It reduces human responsibility to the effect that "God" controls everything, and in turn awful crimes can be justified in the name of Divine Pursuit. [...] The religious myth is the most powerful device ever created, and serves as the psychological soil upon which other myths can flourish."
  • stormywest, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10Yep. She's gone.
  • contemplate, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4How does she know what god wants? Does sarah hear voices? God and sarah have a chat? The terrorists and insurgents believe they know what god wants too. In every war, god is always on both sides, she/he can't make up her/his mind. Just like the blues brothers we're all on a mission from god(s). Yes soldiers, don't think for yourselves, do what sarah tells you, she's speaking for god and god says kill kill faster faster!!!
    • deus199, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3People that use old, "it's God's will" phrase as an excuse for their mistakes and foolish decisions really shouldn't be in a position of power, let alone one as high as the Vice Presidency.
  • Berkana, on 09/03/2008, -4/+5Sarah Palin doesn't know her scripture. In Genesis, there is a prophetic warning not to mess with the Arabs:
    __________________________
    Genesis 16:5-12
    Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May YHWH judge between you and me."

    6 "Your servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

    7 The angel of YHWH found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?"
    "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.

    9 Then the angel of YHWH told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her." 10 The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."

    11 The angel of YHWH also said to her:
    "You are now with child
    and you will have a son.
    You shall name him Ishmael,
    for YHWH has heard of your misery.

    12 He will be a wild ass of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone's hand against him,
    and he will live in hostility
    toward all his brothers."
    __________________________
    The names of the sons of Ishmael are Arab names in use to this day:
    __________________________
    Genesis 25:13-18
    These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. 16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. 17 Altogether, Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. 18 His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
    __________________________

    Hagar was a "donkey/ass", a maidservant; God said to her that her son Ishmael would be a "wild ass of a man." Wild asses cannot be subdued; anyone who tries to ride Ishmael will be kicked off with grievous injury. The French learned this trying to subdue the Algerians (and found that to subdue Algeria, they'd have to kill all the Algerians), as have all other people who have "lived in hostility" with them. No one can ride Ishmael, and any person who says God told them to is lying and using God's name in vain.

    If Sarah Palin believes in a literal reading of Genesis (not that I'm advocating this view), she should at least know this much.
    • Cittidel, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Storytime, already? I want to hear the part where Jesus turns into a zombie!
  • Berkana, on 09/03/2008, -1/+8There's nothing like a fool justifying his folly as God's work to keep people from thinking.
  • vexingmodstwo, on 09/03/2008, -13/+1Attack her all you want, moonbats.

    She's going to be the first female VP of the US.
    • algaeturd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
      AHHAHAHAHAHAHA
      AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
      HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!
      This woman isn't fit to manage a ***** BURGER KING, let alone a state or country.
      If you weren't so educationally challenged, you'd be able to figure that out for yourself. Fortunately, we're here to make sure that you know what a bad choice she is. All you have to do is open your eyes and you'd see she has absolutely no qualifications and wanted to succeed (You DO know what that means, right?) from this country.
      Talk about a hypocrite. Moonbats?
      That's a cute term. I prefer a more classic one for republicans: Goddamn FOOLS.
      • theNazz, on 09/03/2008, -2/+2George Bush sank everything he ever put his hands on and still managed to get the big chair.

        Save the laughter until you can make sure that the joke isn't on you.
  • sheasie, on 09/03/2008, -1/+8A task from God ? Fer'real ?! Says whom?! Seriously... who spoke with God on this issue? Sarah apparently has an inside source??

    PS. The Pope has already formally condemned the war. But Sarah knows better ?? hahha! O.K.! ;)
  • seltaeb4, on 09/03/2008, -1/+5God doesn't have anything to do with what we've done in Iraq, Mrs. Palin.

    If you want to know who's behind it all, stop looking skywards and start looking deep underground.
  • DuggDowner, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10More like a task from Exxon.
  • retzed, on 09/03/2008, -3/+2Sarah Palin is the anti-digger.
  • badassninja, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Oh... that's not good. Bob Barr or Ron Paul, but stay away from this train wreck.
  • borez, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1God? Does he still exist.
  • Gripweed, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Onward Christian Soldiers!!! Let's bring back the good old days of the Crusades.
  • Claude1971, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2So it's Jihad then? Is she Islamic, related to Osama Bin Laden?
  • IKORKYI, on 09/03/2008, -3/+3buried: thinkprogress.org citing huffpost as source AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  • angusm, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1If this farce continues, people are going to start finding ballots with write-in votes for Dan Quayle.

    I can only assume that the Republicans have decided to throw this election and give the Democrats four years in office trying to clean up the mess that Bush has created. Between Old Man Crankypants and Caribou Barbie, they've fielded the perfectly unelectable dream team. At least, I hope to God they're unelectable: a McCain-Palin administration run from behind the scenes by the Carlyle Group, PNAC, Blackwater and Focus on the Family is the kind of nightmare that doesn't bear thinking about.
  • Lindz2000, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1The American right's view of a good, moral Christian.

    Someone who has no respect for other fanatical fundamentalists, only themselves of course.

    They devoutly go to church on Sundays and go home and clean their guns.

    No better than the "terrorists" they believe they can defeat.
  • Hetman, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1First off why is everyone against guns. It makes no sense. Anyways how come God never gives us easy tasks. Something like Jesus says do not forget to set your Tivo Tonight. Now that is the type of God I we need for this century.
  • 911ArtStudent, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1If anything, what Palin said expresses doubt rather than conviction that our troops our serving a task from God.
  • Jeb3030, on 09/03/2008, -1/+0News flash Sarah: Bush is not God. But neither of them have a plan so I can see where you might get confused.
  • peticsu, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1SIILLYBALAGUUHUUHHAHAAAAHAHHAA - SHALABALAKALABABAAALLAA

    that was the G-man telling me my task is to defeat Sarah Pallin because she uses him for political purpose
  • AlbertGrigorov, on 09/03/2008, -0/+0personaly i think that she is the most stupid canditate from all four of them. It seems almost that she is waging a Jihad on muslims which is like throwing water in the ocean.
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