“They are proselytizing not on behalf of the Constitution of
the United States . . . but rather on behalf of some sort of fanatical
view of end times. And they are using our army to affect that.”
-Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson-
Last
August the watchdog group, Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
foiled a Pentagon plan that would have allowed the shipment of “freedom
packages” to soldiers and Marines in Iraq. The parcels were put
together by the fundamentalist Christian ministry, Straight Up, and
contained Bibles, proselytizing tracts in English and Arabic, and the
apocalyptic “Left Behind” computer game, in which Christian Tribulation
forces convert or kill infidels—nonbelievers, Muslims and Jews.