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2008-05-30 Iraq
Coin RageĀ™: coming soon to a mosque near you
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Posted by Seafarious 2008-05-30 10:08|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Y'know, if Christians had kept their mojo from the first century, then they could lay hands on members of the US military officer corp, Department of State officials, congress, and the executive branch, and miraculously make spines grow where none exist.

But don't lose all hope yet! I'm working on it! (TM).
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2008-05-30 10:42|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2008-05-30 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone wanted out of Service... Dumb as a rock...butt
Posted by RD">RD  2008-05-30 11:45||   2008-05-30 11:45|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a COIN, Abdul. Get over yourself.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-05-30 12:20||   2008-05-30 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess the regular Amerian currency and coin is OK, because it only says "In God We Trust."

The atheists sued a wile back to get that removed, and it didn't work, so muzzies, get a grip. or FOAD. I. Don't. Care.
Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-05-30 14:09||   2008-05-30 14:09|| Front Page Top

#5 COIN is what Petraeus used. No wonder they're PO'd.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-30 14:16||   2008-05-30 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 hand out coins with a visage of the Great Satan on them?
Posted by 3dc 2008-05-30 17:54||   2008-05-30 17:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Wish he coulded have handed out these.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-30 18:15||   2008-05-30 18:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know - but thinking about how we always banged on about cultural sensitivities and all that - this doesn't pass the smell test for me. Do we trust the source for this story? Does it sound credible, given the incessant lectures about sensitivity to the local culture? Knowing how sensitive the local Moslems are to any hint of Crusader proselytizing?
I admit, there might be a military congregation in-country, with a coin of that nature. It's one of those military customs, doing coins for a strictly in-house in-group. I have one, for the Air Force Lounge at Yongsan Army Garrison. It says "A little patch of blue in a sea of green".
I'll bet you dollars to donuts, that a local national employee got ahold of some in-house evangelical circle's member-commemorative coin and decided to go squealing to a handy media outlet, blathering on about Crusader proselytizing. This is one of those calculated stories, intended for local consumption and wildly blown out of all proportion.
Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom  2008-05-30 18:58|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com]  2008-05-30 18:58|| Front Page Top

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