Yeah that's real funny bob but you again forgot your smiley-face. Seriously, it's obvious that Twain was writing from the perspective of ANY warring country who claims to have god on their side.
-------------------------- It's absolutely amazing that Mark Twain could have read the Islamist mind a full century ago! Was it originally published in Arabic? From: Thomas Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Libertarian] The War Prayer : by Mark Twain The War Prayer : by Mark Twain O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it-- For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, strain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17801.htm <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001RKlSZYgkciRuyRfR8BA13ydV4kLfUneRCvSYL 6Yh2lXcVN1j _UwiI63H7T4QJ-QXzC9EQc_soxCC99f4_Ji7Xz9VdjDFjXyOBD8KCl3U-IZ3E3fub ymHBj5hzYrH e82T1YBo20PnpCxt3d415nKftdWebcbePtY1>
