I’ve already spoken at length about my experience with religious fanaticism while I served in the Army; and then I saw the following on reddit this morning:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1184546/Donald-Rumsfelds-holy-war-How-President-Bushs-Iraq-briefings-came-quotes-Bible.html

For me, this conjures memories of many a Battle Update Brief; opened with a prayer, closed with a prayer, and full of questionable religious content (e.g. slides such as these) in between. Many of these briefs focused on how we were going to deal with the Islamic fundamentalists who were resisting the Iraq occupation… I often wondered whether I was the only one who realized the irony.