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“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed”

A long article about Donald Rumsfeld in GQ reveals the peculiar juxtaposition of Biblical texts on the cover of daily top-secret war briefings for President Bush, prepared by Pentagon staff and often hand-delivered by Rumsfeld. The article is written by Robert Draper, who interviewed Bush six times, as well as most of his senior cabinet secretaries, for his book Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush.

This article will be getting a lot of attention.

Here’s the cover-sheet slide show.

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