Who is this lunatic? Just Lt Gen William "Jerry" Boykin, the newly promoted deputy undersecretary of state of defence for intelligence. He is in charge of the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, for instance.
Like a proper crank, he sees the Mysterious Hand at work everywhere. Not only sees it, he's got photographs of it!
Now this is only offensive to those very few citizens of the USA who are not staunch Christian Conservative, and as Rummy said, was "conducted in a private capacity," but to make sure he doesn't upset even that very, tiny minority who don't share his same views, "Gen Boykin told NBC that he would be curtailing his speeches to religious groups. 'I don't want to come across as a Right-wing radical,' he said."
=== August 19, 2004