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Mr. Ashenfelter responds

Renee from the Polish American Forum notes that her parents received two replies to letters they sent as follows:

“Thanks for your comments. Anyone who knows anything about World War II knows that Poland didn’t kill $3 million people. The Nazis did. But we should have done a better job in the caption to make clear that Mr. Weiss was standing beside a wall at the Holocaust Center containing the Poland inscription and that the inscription about Poland referred to everyone killed by the Nazis. Thanks again for the feedback. David Ashenfelter”

and

“Hello again. We’re planning to write a clarification for tomorrow’s paper about the photo, where it was taken and what the inscription meant. Thanks again for taking the time to respond to the story. We appreciate and value your comments… Best wishes. David Ashenfelter”

Media, Poland - Polish - Polonia

Correcting inaccuracies in the media

To which the refrain is heard: good luck.

The Detroit Free Press ran an article by David Ashenfelter, Holocaust Justice Hits A Wall: Exile or mercy for old Nazi guards?

The well written article discusses the government’s case against three persons believed to have been Nazi guards at concentration camps and the question of whether or not they should be deported.

The single sticking point was a photo by Eric Seals, of the Detroit Free Press, which was included with the article.

The CTV, NY Times, and others have recently set an editorial policy regarding references to Poland and the Holocaust. Writers may not refer to Nazi German Concentration Camps in occupied Poland as —Polish Concentration Camps.— Such references were quite common and improperly portrayed Poland as either supportive of, or complicit in, Nazi German atrocities.

Mr. Seals’ photo, a cropped picture taken at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, indicates Poland Murdered: 3,001,000. The area in which the picture was taken indicates the Nazi death toll by country.

The photo, as presented, falls within the same editorial policy. Photos, or at least their captions, should accurately portray the facts of the situation being portrayed.

Several people have written to the articles’ author, Mr. Ashenfelter, requesting a correction to the photo’s caption clarifying the fact that Poland did not murder 3 million plus people.

LZ, a member of the Polish American Forum group wrote to Mr. Ashenfelter as follows:

The article was very good, it is the picture that is disturbing. Poland did not murder 3,001,000 Jews. The German Third Reich murdered over six million Jews, Slavs and Gypsies. I relize [sic] that the photo can be taken out of context. I know that it tells that 3,001,000 Jews were murdered in Poland. Your average reader will not realize this.

Is it possible to correct this?

Mr. Ashenfelter’s reply follows:

The photo was taken in front of a wall at the Holocaust Memorial.

Are you suggesting that the Holocaust Memorial folks got their numbers wrong about the people who died in Poland?

David Ashenfelter
Federal Court Reporter
Detroit Free Press
600 W. Fort St.
Detroit, MI 48226
Office: 313-223-4490
Fax: 313-222-5981

Mr. Ashenfelter missed the point completely. As Bozena Urbanowicz-Gilbride, a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor recently stated in a speech at St. Frances de Chantal R.C. Church in Wantagh, New York:

—Every Jew a victim but not every victim a Jew—

Ms. Urbanowicz-Gilbride presents an accurate description of the Holcaust. Every Jew was a victim because every Jew was marked for death, based solely on their ethnicity and/or religion. Every person killed was a victim as well, and often times they were marked for death based solely on their ethnicity (Roma) or based on who they were (homosexual, mentally retarded).

…and yes Mr. Ashenfelter, the numbers as portrayed on the wall are inaccurate in that they only reflect half the deaths in Nazi occupied Poland. The total number of Poles (Christians, Jews, Roma, etc.) killed exceeded 6 million, which the Holocaust Museum fully recognizes (it places the Holocaust death toll at 11 million).

But that’s not the point. People were politely requesting that the photo’s caption be clarified so that no one is misled into believing the people of or government of Poland killed 3+ million people. Not all too difficult, unless of course you don’t care.

Mr. Ashenfelter, if you are at a loss for words try this:

…stands before a representation of the number of Polish Jews murdered in Nazi German concentration camps and elsewhere in occupied Poland.

I’ll even let you use it without attribution.

Current Events, Media, Political

Some people don’t get it

The NY Times is carrying an article about a man who has erected a protest site, filled with crosses, which doubles as a memorial to those killed in Iraq. The following excerpt from Homemade Memorial Is Stirring Passions on Iraq sums up the situation:

LAFAYETTE, Calif., Nov. 30 —” The tranquil suburb of Lafayette hardly seems the most likely place in the Bay Area for a battle over the First Amendment and the war in Iraq. Liberal Berkeley is just over the hill, after all, and nearby San Francisco is always spoiling for a fight.

But over the last few weeks, it is Lafayette —” an affluent bedroom community 20 miles east of downtown San Francisco —” that has become the scene of a passionate debate over the place of political speech in suburbia.

At issue is a hillside memorial, made up of some 450 small white crosses and a 5-by-16-foot sign that reads: —In Memory of 2,867 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq.— The memorial was created by Jeff Heaton, a building contractor and antiwar activist, who said it was meant —to get people involved on a local level— and talking about Iraq.

Sure enough, people here have become involved, including more than 200 people and a half-dozen television news crews and reporters who crammed into the usually sparsely attended City Council meeting last week to voice their opinions about the memorial. And while many there said they found the crosses deeply moving, others called the memorial unpatriotic, disrespectful or just plain ugly.

That camp included Jean Bonadio, a former Marine sergeant who said she was so offended that she stopped her car and climbed the hill to dismantle the sign, which sits with the crosses on private property of a fellow advocate just north of Highway 24, a major Bay Area thoroughfare, and the Lafayette light-rail station.

—My first reaction was, ‘What a disgrace to those who have sacrificed,’ — said Ms. Bonadio, 53, a dog trainer. —I had no tools with me, so I removed it with my bare hands and feet.—

So, free speech, and protecting the rights of all United States citizens (the alleged motivation of every soldier, and the alleged justification for every foreign venture) becomes exhibit A in the land of irony. Former Marine sergeant Jean Bonadio invades private property, destroys private property, and denies a fellow citizen his free speech rights, because he has no right to say it. Semper Fi Sgt. Bonadio, Semper Fi.

The retired sergeant qualified for the ‘Some people just don’t get it award.’

Media, PNCC

Coverage of yesterday’s consecrations

From The Citizens Voice: Four PNCC bishops consecrated

With the Book of Gospels on his back, the Rev. Anthony Mikovsky knelt on the altar in St. Stanislaus Cathedral.

A swarm of hands enveloped his head. Their arms outstretched, the bishops who came before him offered a prayer in unison.

It was in that moment that the bishop-elect fully came to grips with his new duty.

—It’s tough to put into words,— said Mikovsky, one of four Polish National Catholic Church bishops consecrated Thursday at the cathedral on East Locust Street, the mother church of the denomination. —Ultimately, it’s an awesome responsibility.—

About 1,000 people packed the South Scranton church for the elaborate and historic 3½-hour Mass.

All four were elected in October during a General Synod in New Hampshire, marking the first time since 1924 that the Polish National Catholic Church chose four new bishops. They were elected last month in just two ballots, a process that took all of 15 minutes.

On Thursday, the process took a bit more time. None of the four appeared to mind.

Also consecrated were the Rev. Sylvester T. Bigaj, of Hamilton, Ontario; the Rev. Anthony D. Kopka, of Stratford, Conn.; and the Rev. John E. Mack, of Washington, Pa.

—It’s overwhelming, in all kinds of ways,— said Mikovsky, 40, now bishop of the Central Diocese and pastor of St. Stanislaus. —The responsibility of it. The joy to be able to serve the people.—

A native of Trenton, N.J., Mikovsky entered the PNCC seminary in Scranton in 1995 while maintaining studies in discrete mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. His earned a doctoral degree in math and was ordained into the priesthood in 1997.

Just one minor correction. He knelt before the altar, not on it 😉

Current Events, Media, Perspective, Poland - Polish - Polonia

Commenting on ethnicity

One of the newsgroups I recently joined over at Yahoo! is the Polish American Forum. There has been quite a discussion going on around the play Polish Joke by David Ives.

The play is currently being staged by the University of Detroit Mercy (a Jesuit university) and the University’s Theater Company to protests from many in the Polish-American community.

The play has been out for a while and the Polish-American community has frequently commented on it in the negative (see the American Council for Polish Culture’s response by Marek Czarnecki for an example).

The problem with the play, and its current staging, as I see it is threefold:

A Failure in Plot and Development

It is an attempt to examine a serious issue —“ self identity and the affect nativist thinking and philosophy has had on intercultural relationships in the United States —“ done poorly. Cheap humor that buys into nativist stereotypes, while effective as a foil (how many cringed when we recently heard about Michael ‘Kramer’ Richards outburst at two black men) is useless as comedic cover for a poorly developed plot.

The Village Voice reviewer Michael Feingold covers that well in Partial Births: Parks Faces Tragedy; Ives Masks Comedy

David Ives … [s]triving to write a full-evening comedy … has fallen victim to the defensive impulse to make it funny. As a result, he’s filled Polish Joke with skits to the point where you hardly notice the play he’s trying to write. As staged by John Rando, with a quartet of able comedians gleefully headed by Nancy Opel and Walter Bobbie, the skits are often extremely funny indeed. The Irish skit, which runs on a little too long for me, is most people’s favorite; as a Smith & Dale fan, I prefer the doctor sketch. But what I’d really prefer most would be the play Ives apparently intended to write, on the American dilemma of ethnicity versus assimilation, which is centered on his fifth character, a Polish American who doesn’t want to be a Polish joke. Not only interesting in himself, this character is played by Malcolm Gets with touching sincerity and grace, as a human being living a nightmare rather than a straight man in sketch comedy. This is unfair; either Ives should build a play around the character or Rando should show the actor how to walk this way. (If he could walk that way, he wouldn’t need the talcum powder.)

Instead, Ives’s hero proceeds from sketch to sketch, the punchline of his joke life being that he marries the only utterly unhumorous person in the play and settles down with her in Poland. Which may be a handy way to wind things up, but says little about how Ives feels we should live in this nation of immigrants. Like Parks, Ives lets his inner preoccupations usurp, rather than interact with, external reality. But where Parks has at least pushed the outer doors open, Ives farcically slams them shut.

A Failure of Ideals

The play is being put on by a nominally Catholic University, not that I should expect anything different. The R.C. Church in the United States grew up under clerics who heavily bought into nativist stereotyping. In addition, allegedly Catholic universities, such as Notre Dame, regularly sponsor plays like the Vagina Monologues and have a tendency to discipline students who exhibit Catholic witness —“ perhaps out of fear of their own weak witness. Even so, when I hear the word Catholic and think of the faith of the Poles who have contributed time, talent, and treasure to build up the R.C. Church in the United States, I do expect different. To some extent, that is why I am a member on the PNCC, I couldn’t take the regular doses of cognitive dissonance. The R.C. Church in the United States has a long track record of relegating Polish-Americans to third class status —“ and it continues to this day. Pray, pay, and obey everyone because you know, we have a pope.

A Failure to Examine

The play fails to examine the pain that nativist stereotyping has caused. Economic deprivation, leaving many Polish-Americans a generation behind their peers, families turning their ethic identity into a closely guarded secret through a series of name changes and other assimilation techniques, self-hated, glass ceilings, and I could go on. The age old question of identity and its relationship to culture is lost for those from whom their very identity has been hidden by their parents and grandparents. If Mr. Ives has pain, he should explore it more seriously.

The affect of nativist stereotypes on Polish-Americans has been either negative assimilation (a complete washing out of any historical-cultural connection) or abject defensiveness. Join a Polish-American society, and as in the play, be regaled by stories of Kościuszko, Pułaski, Pope John Paul, Marie Curie, and a list of names and events miles long. Polish-Americans of that stripe are so busy defending themselves, their history and culture; they’ve lost sight of the future.

The arts should explore the full gamut of human emotions and relationships. Some of it, like nativism and stereotyping are dark corners of this nation’s psyche, little explored. Mr. Ives and the University of Detroit Mercy would do better to explore these areas in a way that challenges our complacency, our latent discrimination, and our identity politics rather than buying into them*.

*NOTE: Leaders within the Polish-American community took the initiative to confront the University and they ‘agreed’ to open a public forum on the issues raised. Ref. Deal Made On “Polish Joke” At University from the Polish Falcons website.

Current Events, Media

NCR discusses vagantes as —˜alternatives’

A writer for the National Catholic Reporter is attempting to understand vagantes —“ good luck.

Tom Carney has two articles in the current issue. You have to be a subscriber to see —National Catholic church among array of alternatives on left and right— (and no, I won’t subscribe). However his article: Spiritual storm leads priest away from church, back again is available in the on-line archives.

Here are a few excerpts:

It took an emotional and spiritual tempest to lead Fr. Ray McHenry away from the church that had nurtured him and to which he had always been loyal, and an equally turbulent squall to bring him back.

—It was the perfect storm,— said McHenry about the mix of emotions and circumstances that led him to leave the Roman Catholic church [sic] last year. He has now returned — for the same reasons he left.

His story is of a faith journey that included elation with the priesthood, disillusion with an assignment, involvement in a romantic relationship, disenchantment with the church, experimentation with a schismatic church, ending the romantic relationship, and ultimate reunion with the church of his birth.

…

Having entered the seminary at age 44, McHenry was ordained a priest in 2000 for the Des Moines, Iowa, diocese. He left the church three years later to join the left-leaning National Catholic Church of America only to return to the Des Moines diocese after less than a year.

…

… McHenry began to have second thoughts about the church and priesthood. The clergy abuse issue was full-blown, —and there were lots of unhappy Catholics, lots of negativity.—

McHenry wanted to remain a priest, but began looking for an alternative to the church he grew up in, looking especially at —schismatic— Catholic churches. He decided to look into the National Catholic Church of America, established in 1998, with headquarters in Albany, N.Y.

—They have the seven sacraments and apostolic succession,— he said. —It was all there.—

McHenry believed he was OK with the National Catholic church’s theology and practice, including ordination for women, married people and gays, and approval of second and third marriages and family planning. He believed that the National Catholic church was where the Roman Catholic church might be if the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) had been allowed to progress.

He took a leave of absence from the diocese, and after a time left it altogether. He began holding Mass for a group of Council Bluffs dissidents, at first in homes, then in space loaned by a Presbyterian church.

He spoke on the phone a couple of times with the National Catholic Church of America’s primate, Archbishop Richard Roy.

—He was personable,— said McHenry. —I liked what I heard.—

So when he and his female friend traveled to Albany to meet with Roy, he could offer a community in Council Bluffs — though only 15 or 20 members strong — willing to join him as new communicants. McHenry and his friend attended Roy’s Masses and met with National Catholic church members in Albany and Philadelphia.

But his new church was less structured than he expected. It was —Roy and a couple of other priests,— he said. And he saw that in Council Bluffs, he and his congregation would be —out here by ourselves.—

On the return trip, McHenry began asking himself questions. —Is it really a church?— —Is it going to hold together?— And the big question, —Have I done the right thing?—

Fr. McHenry probably should have asked some questions and done some research before he began. Switching churches based on a telephone call is not the way to go. Would you buy a house based on a few calls?

I would imagine that a call to the PNCC and some time in the PNCC seminary would have helped him think this through —“ and the PNCC will not accept anyone without a review, and a period of formation in the seminary.

When Fr. McHenry saw the reality of the National Catholic Church (a bishop and his boyfriend and whatever temporary quarters they can obtain for use as their church), the reality hit home.

To give you a sense, this from the NCC site:

Archbishop Roy … serves as Pastor of Holy Trinity National Catholic Church in Albany, NY, where he makes his home with Brother Stephen K. Peterson, OSJD, his partner since 1975.

Fr. McHenry had the right instincts; he may very well be called to the priesthood and to married life (in a husband-wife relationship). He will not be able to bury that forever, and the damage that burying those instincts does, where no charism of celibacy is given, is evident in so many damaged men.

By-the-way, the NCR must be loosing it if they see churches like these as ‘alternatives’ to the Holy Catholic Faith. I mean their liberal agenda is well know … but vagantes?

Current Events, Media, Perspective, Poland - Polish - Polonia, Political

Drunk* or stupid*?

Katherine Jefferts Schori

The new Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church states, in a NY Times interview, that fellow Episcopalians are much smarter than Catholics or Mormons because they use judgment before having children.

It appears that her fellow Episcopalians sit down and calculate the cost to the environment, and of natural resources, to best determine the impact the twinkle in mom and dad’s (dad and dad’s, mom and mom’s) eye will have on the world.

Catholics and Mormons on the other hand copulate constantly, and without good sense, because they are not all that smart or astute. They are dumb (when will they finally get around to institutionalizing us —“ we shouldn’t be on-the-street) because they simply follow the teachings of their faith.

In the interview Ms. Schori paints a picture of what relationships should look like. She and her husband live apart because career trumps marriage, although she does hint that the Biblical principal of the husband’s headship still applies —“ she will allow him to decide when he should join her.

I judge Katherine Jefferts Schori to be stupid, and possibly drunk in the tradition of the martini drinking vicar.

Rep. Charles Rangel

The New York congressman, and incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, will introduce a bill calling for reinstatement of a military draft in early 2007.

Rep. Rangel believes that presidents and politicians would be less inclined to send American armed forces into questionable conflicts if their own sons and daughters were vulnerable to mandatory military service.

Ummm, case-in-point, our current President.

The sons and daughters of the rich and powerful will never go, nor do those in power care one bit whether the sons and daughters of their less than affluent/powerful constituents go. The rich will sit on high, the poor are canon fodder.

This man is delusional. The draftees will indeed come from the streets in his district, and they will die as they have always. While Rep. Rangel gets a relatively decent peace rating (76%) from the PeaceMajority Report (see his peace voting history), he does vote for funding, and in support of, the Iraq action, the ‘war’ where his constituents die by the hundreds each month.

If you are going to legislate, legislate to cut funding, choke off the ‘action’ by turning off the spigot of money.

I judge Rep. Charles Rangel to be stupid.

David Langlieb

The New York City Parks Department employee wrote an essay for his college’s alumni magazine.

The graduate of Haverford College noted that Greenpoint (a section of Brooklyn predominantly inhabited by Polish immigrants) was —uglier than the morons who work there.— He called Greenpoint residents —vermin— noting that the areas main problem is —Polish people infesting its row-houses.—

In a stilted apology, Langlieb noted that he is —half Polish— and likened himself to novelist Jonathan Swift. He stated that he wasn’t —sufficiently sensitive to the power of historical stereotypes…— (I bet Jonathan Swift was), and that he was just trying to —defend the wonderful community of Greenpoint—.

Mr. Langlieb’s alma mater was founded by the Quakers and bills itself as:

…a coeducational undergraduate liberal arts college founded in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). While the College is not formally affiliated with any religious body today, the values of individual dignity, academic strength, and tolerance upon which it was founded remain central to its character.

I guess they decided not to instill respect for individual dignity or tolerance in Mr. Langlieb nor in the folks who edit the alumni magazine.

The college President, Tom Tritton, apologized here.

I judge David Langlieb and the administration at Haverford to be repentant drunks, ‘I’ll never do that again.’

Michael ‘Kramer’ Richards

In the land of mutually assured destruction, two hecklers fired a couple of shots at the former actor as he performed a stand-up comedy routine. In response he dropped the big ‘n’ weapon on the black hecklers.

See the Boston Herald’s ‘No-talent’ Kramer deserved to be heckled for a commentary on Mr. Richards’ comedy.

Seeing as he was in a nightclub I judge him drunk and stupid

*Necessary disclaimer – the labeling is meant as satire – in the tradition of Jonathan Swift. I’m sure everyone listed here is highly intelligent and a teetotaler.

Current Events, Media,

Miscellaneous

Truth is often stunning

From Huw Raphael: Sacrifice Your Babies… To save Former Canadian actors…

M.J. Fox shills to kill more babies so he can live. How nice.

You knew these shoes would drop

From the Sarasota Herald Tribune: Priest Foley accused is named again

Last week, the Rev. Anthony Mercieca said the only boy he ever had an inappropriate relationship with was Mark Foley, when the former congressman was an altar boy in Lake Worth in the mid-1960s.

On Wednesday, a second man came forward and accused the 72-year-old retired Catholic priest of molesting him while he was an altar boy at St. James Parish in Miami in the late 1970s…

…and

From USA Today: 2nd Florida priest charged with mishandling church money

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) —” The second of two Florida priests charged with spending church money on gambling trips, rare coins and a girlfriend has surrendered to authorities, his attorney said Monday.

The Rev. Francis B. Guinan, 63, returned to the United States on Sunday from a trip to Australia and was taken into custody in Miami, said his attorney, David Roth. He was to be released late Monday on $50,000 bond, Roth said.

Last month, authorities issued arrest warrants for the Rev. John A. Skehan, longtime pastor at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, and Guinan, his successor. Police say the two misused $400,000 in church funds. However, an audit conducted by the Diocese of Palm Beach alleges the pair misappropriated $8.7 million…

For whom shall I root?

I always seemed to have a Mets hat growing up. Never the Yankees —“ just the Mets. I often wondered why —“ but never really found out why.

During the NL Finals I wondered whether I should root for the Mets or the Cards.

You see, St. Louis is the team of the all time great Stan —The Man— Musial. St. Louis was home to the teams (both the Browns and the Cards) that appear to have signed the greatest number of Polish and Polish-American ballplayers (see my baseball page).

Thus the dilemma, root for the team someone in my family liked or the team of Stan the Man and my fellow travelers?

I decided to go with my ethnic leanings. The same applies to the Series – Go Cards!! (sorry Hamtramck)

In the same vein, who to cheer for in Dancing with the Stars? I’ve always liked Joey Lawrence’s partner Edyta Sliwinska. A beautiful, classic Polish woman, she seems to have gotten stuck with rather poor partners in past shows. Now she has a chance. I really like Mario Lopez and Emmitt Smith as well. They are all deserving of a win. The next few weeks will be tough.

All I have to say is thank goodness Sara Evans is gone. She danced like a mummy driving a Mack truck. She should have never lasted longer than Willa Ford.

Ecumenical Rosary

Our pastor and I were invited to participate in a recitation of a Rosary for Peace last night. The Rosary was held at St. Francis de Sales R.C. Church in Loudonville, NY.

It was a great service. The Rosary was recited in various languages. We were asked to do a decade in Polish. The first half of each prayer was said in the participant’s native language with the second part said in English. They covered Polish, German, Italian, various languages and dialects from the Philippines, and Korean. The Holy Eucharist was exposed and they held benediction at the end.

I found that my ability to sing in Latin has not been diminished.

The Church is extremely modern but they’ve added some nice touches here and there. The statuary was well done, there were various icons throughout the building, and they recently installed stained glass windows.

A great evening —“ and a great way to connect with our R.C. friends at St. Francis.

Christian Witness, Current Events, Media

Standing in the dock – for the truth

Robert Fisk writing in The Independent takes a stand against Holocaust deniers in Turkey. He’s ready to stand-up for the truth.

Check out: Let me denounce genocide from the dock: Suddenly, those Armenian mass graves opened up before my own eyes

This has been a bad week for Holocaust deniers. I’m talking about those who wilfully lie about the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Turks. On Thursday, France’s lower house of parliament approved a Bill making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide. And, within an hour, Turkey’s most celebrated writer, Orhan Pamuk – only recently cleared by a Turkish court for insulting “Turkishness” (sic) by telling a Swiss newspaper that nobody in Turkey dared mention the Armenian massacres – won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the mass graves below the deserts of Syria and beneath the soil of southern Turkey, a few souls may have been comforted.

While Turkey continues to blather on about its innocence – the systematic killing of hundreds of thousands of male Armenians and of their gang-raped women is supposed to be the sad result of “civil war” – Armenian historians such as Vahakn Dadrian continue to unearth new evidence of the premeditated Holocaust (and, yes, it will deserve its capital H since it was the direct precursor of the Jewish Holocaust, some of whose Nazi architects were in Turkey in 1915) with all the energy of a gravedigger…

A thank you to Serge, the original blogging Young Fogey (ref. here) for pointing to this.

Current Events, Media, Political

Well now that I know I’ll shut-up

From Yahoo News: Top US general says Rumsfeld is inspired by God

MIAMI (AFP) – The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God.

“He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country,” said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…

The ‘good’ Lord: Get Saddam.
Rumsfeld: Why?
The ‘good’ Lord: He dissed your boss’ dad. Remember, Honor Thy father…
Rumsfeld: What will we tell the people?
The ‘good’ Lord: Lie.
Rumsfeld: What?
The ‘good’ Lord: Lie! Make up a story, Saddam is evil.
Rumsfeld: You mean do an evil to achieve a good?
The ‘good’ Lord: Sure.
Rumsfeld: OK

The REAL Word of God tells us:

Therefore, God is sending them a deceiving power so that they may believe the lie,
that all who have not believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing may be condemned.
(2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)

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