LTG Jerry Boykin, currently the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence has lost yet another battle. This decorated soldier is known to most Americans for his famous statement during service in the ill-fated expedition to Somalia which he described with the phrase, "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.”

That battle didn’t go so well, as you may remember. Either the false idol won, or the planning was faulty.

He was also involved in the 1980 attempt to rescue the American hostages from the Teheran embassy,

Again, another failure.

He was involved in the hunt to capture the famous drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, in Colombia and return him to the US for trial.

He failed there, too. Escobar was executed, either by Colombian police during a shootout, or by members of a special unit Boykin set up to capture him. Escobar had been wounded in both legs during a shoot-out, and so obviously could have been taken alive.

But it is for his rah-rah boosterism of the “Christian G_d” that this Evangelical is best known. During a speech in June, 2003, he commented that Muslims hate the US “because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian ... and the enemy is a guy named Satan."

Will Bunch has pointed out that LTG Boykin’s God has a competitor.

George Bush, speaking in Cincinnati on Oct 7, 2002:

Some al-Qaida leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al-Qaida leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks.

Colin Powell, speaking in the UN on February 5, 2005:

Zarqawi's activities are not confined to this small corner of north east Iraq. He traveled to Baghdad in May 2002 for medical treatment, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months while he recuperated to fight another day.

Matthew A. Levitt, senior fellow in terrorism studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, National Review Online, Feb. 6, 2003.:

From Iran Zarqawi traveled to Iraq in May 2002, where his wounded leg was amputated and the limb fitted with a prosthetic device. He spent two months recovering in Baghdad, at which time "nearly two dozen extremists converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there."

Now, we’ve been unable to find this one-legged master criminal of a terrorist. Zarqawi is THE big bad bear of Iraq. He’s been designated again and again as the worst person on earth, apparently even eclipsing Osama bin Laden who once was the #1 evil in the Universe, until Mr Bush decided he had no idea where Osama was and didn’t care very much. It always puzzled me that we couldn’t find bin Laden and Zarqawi. One guy has to drag a dialysis machine around behind himself, the other schleps around on a wooden leg.

Now we know how Zarqawi has managed to elude capture for so long. According to Will:

Miracles really do happen -- especially over in the Holy Land. Because we have just watched the video of Iraq-based terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and, lo and behold, the once-crippled man seems to have grown two healthy legs. The 30-minute video, in which Zarqawi surfaced publicly to rally Sunnis and foreign fighters behind the insurgency, shows Zarqawi running through the desert, crouching to fire a machine gun, even sitting cross-legged in a meeting -- with no hint of the prosthetic limb that he allegedly received with the aid of Saddam Hussein.

As the AP notes:

He seemed healthy, shown in one scene standing and firing a heavy machine gun in a flat desert landscape that resembled the vast empty stretches of western Iraq, where he is believed to be hiding.

There you have it, my friends. Jerry Boykin’s G_d has a competitor who also performs miracles. Allah grew Zarqawi a new leg. The only other answer is that Mr Bush’s crew got it all wrong, and we know they never make a mistake, right?

Right?