Bible Texts Misused in Rumsfeld Reports, Religious Leaders Say - Los Angeles Times - ZN

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Bible Texts Misused in Rumsfeld Reports, Religious Leaders Say - Los Angeles Times - ZN
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Author: Manya A Brachear.
Publication: Los Angeles Times
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Section: National News
Published Date: May 25, 2009
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Chicago — One passage plucked from the New Testament's Epistle to the Ephesians instructs believers to "put on the full armor of God.

"An excerpt from the Old Testament's Isaiah directs them to "open the gates that the righteous nation may enter."

As American troops fought in Iraq in 2003, these biblical verses and others reportedly prefaced intelligence reports approved by then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

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