Bachmann: God is backing the United States in Iraq.
By on Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Bachmann: God is backing the United States in Iraq.
On Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) spoke to a group of Minnesota GOP. During that speech, reports the West Sherburne Tribune, Bachmann highlighted the progress in Iraq, stating that God is on the side of America in the war:
What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding. Though you never hear about it in the media. God has not abandoned us.
Bachmann also said that global warming is “all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”
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Yep, you can always count on Michele Bachman to bring Teh Crazy.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pmOh my God – NOT that crazy beeyotch!!!
YIKES!!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pmI just posted this on the McCain thread but, for some strange reason, no seems to be on that thread (is it the scary picture?):
‘CNN’s Kyra Phillips speaks to some Iraqi soldiers about the U.S. presidential election and democracy in Iraq. While they spoke enthusiastically about the American soldiers teaching them discipline and how to effectively combat their enemies in Iraq, the soldiers were less effusive in their praise for those managing the war and their plans for bringing about democracy. Phillips tried in vain to locate any McCain supporters among the group.
“Just to be perfectly clear here, I did ask them are you following any of the republican candidates?…Do you want to talk about John McCain? Within that whole group, not one wanted a republican in the US presidential seat. They were all for a democrat. They were all for that type of change because they said they were living a republican war.”’
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/17/living-a-republican-war/
As far as this person Bachmann goes – she’s obviously insane.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:16 pmShe sounds like a typical Repug ditz reciting the entire idiotic line.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm…and Allah is on the Iraqi’s side?
March 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pmDoesn’t speak very well of the people of Minnesota. Talk about living in a fantasy bubble! Sheesh!
I bet she’s excellent free entertainment at parties.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pmgood_golly Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Soon you may be writing about Vice Presidential Candidate, Michele Bachman.
Oh please let this be true…
March 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pmgood_golly Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Soon you may be writing about Vice Presidential Candidate, Michele Bachman.
i hope so too!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pmOkay, that seals it! Bachman is nuts!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pmand god will be waiting for Bush with his waterboarding equipment
March 17th, 2008 at 3:48 pmGod must have called her on the cellphone with that good news, just like the Huckster.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pmYou mean she took time to remove her face from Bush’s crotch and say something? Watch it doll, you’ll make Condi jealous.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:50 pmThey should just ditch the ‘Republican’ label and call themselves ‘The Party of God’. Facts have no meaning to them, it all unhinges on faith.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:50 pmWhoa, this crazy biotch doesn’t represent all of Minn. Just one batsh#t crazy district of racist, religious whacko’s. She is the biggest embarrassment of our state, followed closely by our governor that thinks he’ll be MCbraindeads VP. Bachman, go back to Anoka and STFU!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:51 pmIf God is in fact on “our” side them maybe we should ask him to stop helping “us” so much.
AF
March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pmWhat? How did Odin and Thor get involved in Iraq?
You can’t fix Crazy. (see GiGis post to see why)
Buck Hussein Fush
March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pmWhenever someone brings up God backing everything the U.S. does, makes me wonder what the hell God did for those thousands of years before the U.S. was founded.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pmSorry. I meant “Him.”
AF
March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm16:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pmAnd that translates into Arabic as…(wait for it)…Hezbollah!
Good Lord, send this woman to the funny farm. Is there any sane Reps in MN?
March 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pm“Voodoo Nonsense Hokum and Hoax”
March 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pmWeapons of Mass Destruction jokes
Hundred-buck fillups and five-dollar Cokes
That’s what you get when you vote for these folks
ralph the wonder llama Says:
goon_golly Says:
Soon you may be writing about Vice Presidential Candidate, Michele Bachman.
Oh please let this be true…
No kidding. This lunatic would be perfect. Unfortunately, goon_golly is undoubtedly just as misinformed about this as everything else.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm.
The meaning of:
THOU SHALL NOT KILL
Is lost on the simplest of minds
.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pmWell, If Bachman is so certain that “God has not abandoned us”, what better way to prove her faith than by going to Iraq and wandering around, lightly armed and with NO security detail, outside the Green Zone, just like the Iraqis themselves do?
I’m guessing Bachman’s faith is an inch wide and an inch deep when it comes to putting up or shutting up
Michele, do yourself a BIG favor and just STFU!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pmIf you talk to God, you’re praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. This lady is in severe need of some Serious Meds.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:00 pmImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution
#7 TheToonGuy Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
…and Allah is on the Iraqi’s side?
McLOL
And Yahweh is on Israel’s side
March 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pmHey, it’s Ann Coulter’s even crazier older sister!
I think some people are going to be pretty dang surprised when they meet God and He tells them they had it all wrong.
At least they’ll be warm…
March 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pmFACT, the majority of Iraqis want the occupation to end, so this fundamentalist war monger , contradicts her own position .
March 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pmI’m sure she says also , ” we are bringing them democracy “.
WELL, if they have a REAL democracy , they have a right to tell the U.S. to get out . Even if they didn’t have a democracy , they have a human right , to not live under a foreign occupation .
This lying psychotic fundamentalist , fails to mention there were NO WMDs , bush’s reason for invading a destroyed country and to say U.S. troops did an outstanding job in Iraq , is ludicrous .
Iraq’s military was half destroyed before the invasion from the first gulf war, constant bombing and sanctions, so defeating them was like killing a kid in a wheel chair .
Now what you have left is not a war, but a RESISTANCE to U.S. occupation , period.
Tired of being lied to Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hey, it’s Ann Coulter’s even crazier older sister!
Oh, I don’t know about crazier.
I think they’re both batsh!t insane, just in different ways.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pmFrom the woman who lovingly accosted Bush after his SOTU address and who is darned proud that Minnesotans work two or three jobs to survive.
How long before the bimbo loses the next election?
And her as VP would be priceless. I’d pay to see that!
March 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pmHaving been quoted in the story as saying that the media picked McCain, I doubt there would be much interest in the veep spot. Besides, Johnny seems to prefer bottle blonds.
Based on the platform outlined in the article — seven of 17 bullet points devoted to immigration and a pledge to defend the right of Minnesotans “to be free from government-imposed health care systems and universal coverage policies” I suspect Frau Bachmann passes for normal at the local bund meeting.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:12 pmWell, it’s obvious the rapture hasn’t happened yet.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:15 pmThis is the looney one who says stupid things and has a crush on her BF, Bush. What she thinks she gains from being a screwball is beyond me — but, I wouldn’t know what a screwball thinks.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:17 pmJudging from that picture, I’d say the meth is working just fine…
March 17th, 2008 at 4:18 pmMax-1 Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
.
The meaning of:
THOU SHALL NOT KILL
Is lost on the simplest of minds
This is probably a better translation that the King James “Thou shalt not kill.”
Exodus 20
13 “You shall not murder.” (NIV)
It’s clear in the Old Testament that killing and murdering are not the same thing just as they aren’t the same thing today.
Don’t believe there is a reason to assume Exodus 20:13 is excluding killing in war.
This is bitblt’s opinion, and this comment is about the Bible, not about present day politics.
In the New Testament book of Matthew Christ makes it clear that the attitude that would cause one to hate someone enough to murder is also wrong. Christ was interested in both actions and attitudes.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:19 pm“Bachmann highlighted the progress in Iraq, stating that God is on the side of America in the war”
– Yes, I understand that Jesus was very big on picking fights with others, especially pre-emptive attacks (snark)
“What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding.”
– Wonderful! It’s about time we got some astounding accomplishment over there — I know this will be good for the morale of the troops. I don’t suppose Ms. Bachmann would care to give us some specific details about these astounding accomplishments? Or is she just parroting the party blather, hoping it will stick?
“Though you never hear about it in the media.”
– Wow, you’d think that if there were astounding accomplishments, the media would be all over it. Especially Fox News. Yet Fox News spends less time reporting on Iraq than the other news outlets. Why is this?
“God has not abandoned us.”
– God will never abandon us, even when we do things that might not be pleasing to Him (like exploiting His name to justify abuse of power, foreign policy like a playground bully, and beating up other people whom God will not abandon).
Bachmann also said that global warming is “all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”
March 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pm– I think that statement pretty much speaks for itself. Just more blather with no scientific evidence.
Bachmann also said that Michelle Bachman is “all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”
There, I fixed it for her.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:27 pmGood Gooshy at #6 ~~
Bring it On!!
March 17th, 2008 at 4:27 pmYou use religion as a weapon……I for one disagree with you and there is a movement among chistains to distance themselves from the likes of you. Red Letter Christains.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Dr. Evil’s Righty Fembots want to steal all our mo-jo!
Ju-do CHOP!
March 17th, 2008 at 4:35 pmThank God (!) I don’t have the same God as does Rep. Bachmann. My God is loving, compassionate, doesn’t take sides and sees all men as equals.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:36 pmthis is the chick that just about creamed herself on the congressional floor when she saw Bush for the first time at the SOTU
i guess any mental midget is going to look to deify any one or any thing.
this year she got a seat in the first balcony…hahaha.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:36 pm#38 bitblt Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Christ’s interests went as far as condoning violence for those free of sin… NO?
March 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pmBachmann: “What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding. Though you never hear about it in the media. God has not abandoned us….”
“… She just likes to see our servicemen dismembered, maimed, and killed.”
Cheers,
March 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pmYou think the GOP could convince her to do a bukkake film.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pmSeems thats about all she is good for anyways.
Bachman is to God what Hagee is to God.
God, damn the Republics.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm“Doesn’t speak very well of the people of Minnesota.”
Minnesota is one of the most progressive and educated states in America. Bachmann won in a district that is primarily rural. Minnesota is the only state which Reagan lost in both his presidential campaigns. Both Bushes also lost here. The only reason Norm Coleman won is the sudden death of Paul Wellstone late in the campaign.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pmGott mit uns
March 17th, 2008 at 4:58 pmJust when you think you’ve heard the stupidest thing ever; she starts talking again.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pmAlso, Bachmann barely won running against a political neophyte, Patty Wetterling, who was well meaning but ran a very weak campaign.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pmCan we consider the two or three trillion that aWol has thrown into the Iraqi pit a loan; one that God will return to us with interest?
March 17th, 2008 at 5:11 pmnice collar, michele.
want a bone?
btw, michele, your god can go straight to hell!
March 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pmIts not a war Michele.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pmDumb Observation: God is with us because we worship him. The Jews, Christans and Islam are all “people of the book” and worship the same God (although they seperate on who was God’s messenger / son). Therefore the Islam worshp the same God.
So shouldn’t the Islam be victorious over us ?
March 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pmThis woman couldn’t be a bigger nut if she tried. And she certainly is not helping the case for Christianity if she is saying that God would have approved the slaughter of over a million people so that one country could try to steal oil from another country. If God approves that, then people should be seriously be rethinking their faith.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pmMapleStreet Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Dumb Observation: God is with us because we worship him. The Jews, Christans and Islam are all “people of the book” and worship the same God (although they seperate on who was God’s messenger / son). Therefore the Islam worshp the same God.
So shouldn’t the Islam be victorious over us ?
Believe the Koran calls Jews and Christians “people of the book.” bitblt is not aware that Muslins are called people of the book.
“Therefore the Islam worshp the same God.” Believe this statement remains to be proven.
“So shouldn’t the Islam be victorious over us ?”
What do you mean by this question?
March 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pmThis idiot has no idea what she’s talking about
March 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pmThat number is not a ‘progressive’ number good_golly but keep repeating your fib.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:56 pmgg,
how many is too many?
March 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pmSo whose back does god have in the battles of collegiate basketball?
March 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pmYou cant steal whats in the ground good_golly. The idea is to control its flow.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:58 pmThe lack of WMDs and ties to AlQueda, threat to our freedom, etc. make the Iraq war the best candidate for ‘Hoax’ status. Since her statements have no factual basis, they are the better illustration of ‘nonsense’. The pants are on fire from lying: it’s not the burning bush. All through fall I thought God was on the side of the Patriots. Was he just teasing?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:00 pmIE OIl Laws. In February, 2007, the proposed draft of a new law to structure Iraq’s oil industry was leaked, and it is now being considered by the Iraqi parliament. Several key features of the law would:
* Allow two-thirds of Iraq’s oil fields to be developed by private oil corporations.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pmI will have to admit I do agree with some ideas that progressives throw out there but when they don’t agree with something. Its Mt. St Helen proportion hate and resentment they spew! -Themanoncecared
That you cairngman? Pleae, your painting with a very wide biased brush here I think. I dont deal with hate and resentment. Your broad remarks dont give your opinion credibility
March 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pmgood_golly?
hello?
answer the question!
HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pmgotta go!
March 17th, 2008 at 6:07 pmi’ll be back tomorrow.
bitblt Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“Therefore the Islam worshp the same God.” Believe this statement remains to be proven.
It’s a pretty well-known fact, actually. Muslims, Christians, and Jews worship the same God. They all have a different perspective on Him and call Him different names, but it’s the same deity. The Qur’an builds on the New Testament just as the New Testament builds on the Torah.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:08 pmPeople domestic and international do not die in large numbers because of a progressive agenda in America. You cannot say that about the republican agenda….sorry…stick to facts…..you are the party of death….not progressives.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pmActually, the “progressive” movement has one, overriding, goal. A return to accountability in our government. Since Ms. Bachmann is only answerable to the voices in her head, she doesn’t fit in with our plan.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:31 pmWhile Minnesota certainly has some GOP influence for various reasons (the poor are the “other” and segmented off, deserving little money and attention in some areas, for one) it is a liberal state and there has been a lot of progress, with dozens of shifts and holds in 2006.
Unfortunately, it has attracted some nasty drones parroting not their own more logical brand of Republican politics, but intense Bush rhetoric. Coleman, Pawlenty, Bachmann… all “in” and an affront to the state, with little to say for themselves other than folksy garbage.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:41 pmCaption contest: “Must… breath… necklage… too… tight…”
March 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pmCome on…someone take one for the team and shove a Big Di(k in her mouth.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:35 pmSorry, Michelle, the voodoo, hoakum and hoax is the goofy God talk.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pm“What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding. Though you never hear about it in the media”
And you never hear media report about the Winter Soldiers event where courageous veterans describe their astounding accomplishments in Iraq and Afghanistan
“God has not abandoned us.”
Dylan comments..
March 17th, 2008 at 8:36 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbw2GD0t3T4
Put a helmet on this idiot, give her a rifle and send her over to Iraq and send her out on patrol……no need to worry about her, God is on her side.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:33 pmOK so which god is this?
March 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pmI have to believe that every neocon that shouts out that GOD is on our side is only going to devalue Christianity and it`s core beliefs.The neocon values of hatred,bigotry and ignorance
March 18th, 2008 at 12:17 amonce again rear their ugly head.
If there was a god and he was backing the USA, he would have struck down Cheney and a host of other traitors from the GOP.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:44 amSince when does Bachmann have a “Red Phone” to God? She’s no a theologian, she’s a politician — the world’s second oldest profession and almost as far away from heaven as someone can possibly get even without breaking the law, in my opinion.
To a rational person with at least two functioning brain cells to rub together, the phrase “God is on our side” is about on a par with “the Devil made me do it’ — nothing more than a convenient blanket self-rationalization, and a rather flimsy one at that. In much the same way that most people who say “the Devil made me do it” are trying to avoid accepting responsibility for their own behavior, saying “God is on our side” is a feeble attempt to avoid any potentially negative consequences of our actions — because nothing that we do (such as say, torture?) could ever possibly be bad or evil or wrong because God wouldn’t be on our side if it wasn’t…right?
God is on our side because everything we do is okay, and everything we do is okay because God is on our side. Talk about circular — not to mention remarkably convenient — reasoning (more like magical or wishful thinking if you ask me)…
March 18th, 2008 at 2:05 am#71 Themanoncecared Says:
“That’s the problem with the country. And who’s caught in the middle? Nobody! There are only sides!! No middle ground!!”
Well, if you want middle ground, you can check out mu humble offerings here:
March 18th, 2008 at 4:23 pmhttp://www.squeakywheelsblog.com
Didn’t the Nazi Wehrmacht wear dog tags that said, “God is with us” (Gott mit uns)?
March 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pmFred Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
“You use religion as a weapon……I for one disagree with you and there is a movement among chistains to distance themselves from the likes of you. Red Letter Christains.”
“When we present Jesus as a pro-war, pro-capital punishment, anti-poor, anti-homosexual, anti-environment, pro-nuclear weapons authority figure draped in an American flag, I think we are making a travesty of the portrait of Jesus we find in the gospels.”
We do the same to Jesus when we try use Him to advocate a liberal political position, yet turn away from His examples and words regarding sin and personal responsibility. Both sides pick and choose parts of His message to bolster their arguments and still expect people to believe their claims to be Christians.
upright hussein left
March 19th, 2008 at 2:08 am