By Gary L. Bauer, Chairman, Campaign for Working Families

It is now official - the Washington Post is on a "crusade" to crucify General Boykin. Today, the Post filed another diatribe adding to the "indictment" of General Boykin new "damning" information regarding his view on why the September 11th attacks weren't even worse. Here is what the general said, "Whether you realize it or not, I believe there were at least two more airplanes that were headed for major installations in this country. I believe that there was one headed for the White House, there was one headed for the Capitol, but they were thwarted by the hand of God."

Well, many other intelligence experts also believe other hijackings were planned, but ultimately failed on September 11th, but that isn't what the Post is questioning. They just can't comprehend and they find intolerable that a top U.S. general believes and says there is a God who intervenes in the affairs of men! I have sent the following letter to the editor of the Washington Post.

"Seldom has the Washington Post's ignorance of people of faith, particularly Evangelicals, been more evident than in your October 18, 2003 hyperventilating editorial concerning Lt. General William G. 'Jerry' Boykin.

"The Lt. General's 'sins,' from the perspective of the militant secularist perch of your editorial writer, seems to boil down to this: Boykin sees the 'jihadist' terrorists who killed 3,000 of us September 11th and who are feverishly striving to kill more of us right now and whose 'brothers' in spirit desecrated the bodies of U.S. soldiers murdered in Mogadishu by dragging them naked through the streets, as proof of the existence of evil in the world. Indeed, the Lt. General believes he saw and felt a demonic presence in the blood soaked streets of Mogadishu.

"But the Post finds this belief by a top officer in the war on terror that there is a spiritual war raging in the world to be 'weird, and not a little scary.' As I recall, the Post didn't like it when the Commander-In-Chief identified an 'axis of evil' either. But, what is really scary is that the most influential newspaper in Washington apparently is unable to recognize the spiritual evil inherent in the self-described jihadists who are spreading death and destruction from one end of the globe to the other on a scale ranging from the individual decapitation of Daniel Pearl to mass murder in lower Manhattan.

"The last century provided plenty of proof of the existence of evil (from Stalin's Gulags to Hitler's death camps.) The fascist jihadist terrorists of today spring from the same hell."

General Boykin attends an Assembly of God church just a mile from my own church. If you want to encourage him, e-mail your messages of support to me and I will hand deliver them this weekend. Also, e-mail the White House at president@whitehouse.gov and urge the President to stand with General Boykin.

Please feel free to pass on this "End of Day" update to interested friends and family members.

Campaign for Working Families
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