Sarah Palin:, "our leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God" Options

[Billy]

@Video time 3:50 -

Sarah Palin on the war in Iraq:

“pray for our military men and women, who are striving for what is right for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we’re praying for. There is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.”

Source: UTube

[woody]

if she believes in fate, then what happened is in accordance with God's will.

Unrelated to my first sentence, I don't really see anything wrong with what she said. To be honest with you, Saddam needed to be taken out of power sooner or later. Bush just did an awful job at convincing the American people that he was a threat. Yes, sadly many people lost their life over there. The situation is getting immensely better over there now though. Also, has never served in the military, and he has no children I find it completely ironic that Obama wants to pull us out of there, yet he himself serving in the military. Cheney was a prisoner of war. Palin's son will be leaving for Iraq soon. Seems like Palin would want to believe that it was in God's will for this war to happen because her son will be there soon.

I didn't agree with the war at first either. Then, I had no opinion on it for a while. I guess I kinda started to change my opinion about a year ago when I realized "hey, better now then later." I figure the more time we give terrorist organizations time to group and plot, the worse off we are. Al Qaeda had a strong presence over there until recently.

wouldn't that make every act of agression/war god's will? thus, defeating the purpose of saying it?

what does not being in the military have to do with pulling troops out?

• be a natural born citizen of the United States;
• be at least thirty-five years old;
• have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.

'Terrorist' organizations have been acting out for a long time. The US is just new to it. Look at the 1920 wall street bombing, the KKK, unibomber, OKC bombing, etc. Not all terrorists form from the mid east. We just care about the 1 group in the mid east. And we care less about them then we do Iraq at this moment.

This post has been edited by woody: Sep 5 2008, 05:44 PM