GQ magazine has got a hold of former Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld’s top-secret Iraq War briefings for President Bush, in which Bible quotations are superimposed above images of U.S. troops waging war.

For example, the March 31, 2003, briefing contained a slide showing a U.S. tank in the desert beneath a quote from Ephesians: “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

The April 1 slide shows a soldier loading a machine gun with the following quote from Proverbs: “Commit to the Lord whatver you do, and your plans will succeed.”

CQ says: “These cover sheets were the brainchild of Major General Glen Shaffer, a director for intelligence serving both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense. In the days before the Iraq war, Shaffer’s staff had created humorous covers in an attempt to alleviate the stress of preparing for battle. Then, as the body counting began, Shaffer, a Christian, deemed the biblical passages more suitable. Several others in the Pentagon disagreed. At least one Muslim analyst in the building had been greatly offended; others privately worried that if these covers were leaked during a war conducted in an Islamic nation, the fallout-as one Pentagon staffer would later say-`would be as bad as Abu Ghraib.'”

The article continues:”The Scripture-adorned cover sheets illustrate one specific complaint I heard again and again: that Rumsfeld’s tactics-such as playing a religious angle with the president-often ran counter to sound decision-making and could, occasionally, compromise the administration’s best interests.”