"George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States...he was appointed by God."

No? How about this:

"Well, you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol."

One more:

"[The Terrorists are] after us because we're a Christian nation."

He was criticized by the "liberal" media for inflaming a religious war and rightly so. Everybody knows that THAT task is only reserved for the Jihadists and President Bush. So with those famous, or to some, infamous quotes being said, are you at all surprised by the connection he apparently has to the post-Saddam Iraqi prison torture?

A Senate hearing into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was told on Tuesday that Lt. Gen. William Boykin, an evangelical Christian under review for saying his God was superior to that of the Muslims, briefed a top Pentagon civilian official last summer on recommendations on ways military interrogators could gain more intelligence from Iraqi prisoners.

Critics have suggested those recommendations amounted to a senior-level go-ahead for the sexual and physical abuse of prisoners, possibly to "soften up" detainees before interrogation -- a charge the Pentagon denies.

Congressional aides and Arab-American and Muslim groups said any involvement by Boykin could spark new concern among Arabs and Muslims overseas the U.S. war on terrorism is in fact a war on Islam.

"This will be taken as proof that what happened at Abu Ghraib (prison) is evidence of a broader culture of dehumanizing Arabs and Muslims, based on the American understanding of the innate superiority of Christendom," said Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, a U.S.-based quarterly magazine. more...

The investigation is relatively early, although a report of the abuse at the Abu Ghraib Prison was leaked to the Pentagon months before it was leaked to the press, so at this point, we (the common man) don't know what General Boykin briefed that top Pentagon civilian official.