"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."

In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."

Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.

"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."



Is that even legal to claim?

Let me try...pay me $10mill a year, it is God's will.

Iraq War = Crusade. WTF?

And this whole time I thought it had something to do with oil and saving face for daddy. My bad.

of course she's going to get a great deal of media attention because no one knows a damned thing about her. oh she was the mayor of wasilla alaska. after this dull convention it will all fade pretty fast...and is anyone watching anyway? i mean really? i doubt it...

im going to watch her tonight...but only because im due for a spike in blood pressure

you'd think that the rnc would have gotten some seat fillers as there are a hell of a lot of empty seats back there.

rudy just made a joke!

I'll be watching it too.

ML - I think another good question would be why don't we see DAD holding his child either? Even now at the convention it's Bristol who is holding Trig, not Palin's husband.

what i think is funny is how mccain and guiliani and all these crackers criticize the media and celebrities but where are they? they are on saturday night live, leno etc...trying to be funny. wtf?

did anyone bother telling romney that sarah palin got zero votes for president?

and what about being a POW. once you start using it for political gain, it's no longer a sacrifice. clowns.

present. leaders. yes, mccain. how about that 64% absence from voting this last session?

drill baby drill?

if only i had a cowboy hat

drill baby drill! yay for offshore drilling. just not off my shore! where's ahnold?

here we go the al quaida/iraq connection. discounting the fact that there was no alquaida in iraq before we invaded.

lisp baby lisp...just can't take rudy seriously

giuliani is scarier than i knew. wowee.

and, did john mccain really say 'we are all georgians'? also scary.

can we also please stop talking about winning/losing the war? is that really still a question and/or goal?

Does anyone have a comparison chart on how the two candidates have changed their positions? I swear Guiliani is acting is if McCain hasn't flip flopped on anything!

i can only listen to this filth through the filter of cenk uygar at [url=http://www.theyoungturks.com/]the young turks{/url]

all you have to do is go back to 2000, this ain't the same mcCain. remember the talk on how gore should perhaps take a chance and choose mcCain as his running mate? that man has sold out to the granl 'ol douche bags

[idiot not link so good] me [/idiot not link so good] ... i am gonna explode if i hear rudy go on like this...

also wtf? rudy says mccain is looking forward by picking sarah but barack is looking backward by picking biden? they sort of cancel themselves out there rudy. and last time i checked we ain't won no war(s)...

how do young people get involved with this party? i truly don't understand that. the nightly news did a story on the "grand new party" i just don't get how you could be under 30 and listen to this shit. these people are completely insane

what is it with all of a sudden conservative republicans are so adamant about womens rights???wtf??? and don't say that republicans ended slavery because abe would not be a freaking republican today.

and fuck reagan!!!

i wouldn't fuck reagan with barbara bush's dick.

Oh dear God is that the liberty bell behind her?

time to eat dinner so i have to something to throw up later, dry heaves are the worst

stupid people never fail to amaze me. especiallly en mass.

what the fuck is wrong with this thing with everybody dangling a baby in their hands?
makes me think all they do is fuck...

how bout them conservative values.

tuna, of course it's the liberty bell -- did you forget they're the FREEDOM VICTORY LIBERTY WIN FOREVER STRONG political party?

i think the whole claim about mccain rather losing an election than losing a war would stick a little better if he actually lost the election...

these republicans are parhetic and self rightious.

any thoughts on palin not experiencing menopause yet?

What else is there to do in Alaska? Their token black guy just got some TV time. Did anyone else see that?

"kids with special needs will get special love -- provided they pull themselves up by their special bootstraps, that is."

Marge Gunderson for VP!!!

she has that fingernail on chalkboard quality in her voice...

and sarah my nephew is in iraq and he thinks its a fivestar clusterfuck.

and who the hell goes to the pta??? just kidding lb!!!

ROFL!!!! Her daughter just licked her hand to plaster the sleeping boy's hair down. AWESOME!!!!

sarah's pullin out the class card... guess she forgot that johnny doesnt know how many houses he owns??? time for an attack on the left wing media! they don't know what left wing media is...

i can't stand this woman.

In Indianapolis, quite a few hot moms go to the PTA. And we joke very non-partisan and trepidatiously about Sarah Palin there, since none of us know each other very well but are in a panic trying to impress one another.

god they could start rejuvenating the economy by hiring a freaking nanny!

newt's got a woody!!!

the mccain campaign still thinking they can complain about the media = friggin bogus!

she stood up to the lobbyists? what to pay them???

uh yeah. you can't pay them sitting down, homes!

What's wrong with speaking differently to people in different parts of the country? Not everyone is going to have the same concerns or issues as the person in the nest town over.