(2/13/2006) The war in Iraq is by all accounts the most important issue of the election. Of the 13 issues listed on Inglis' campaign website, the war in Iraq isn't a single one of them. It isn't mentioned it at all.
addendum: It's not on his new campaign website either.

Congressman Inglis wrote an account of his visit to Iraq last year, "Freedom's Children and the Work of Significance in Iraq". Optimistic, introspective, punctuated with biblical quotes, if taken at face value it is a genuinely disturbing document. It's been taken down from Bob's congressional website, but I took the liberty of downloading it back when the war was more fashionable and here it is in the original pdf (addendum: I see it's been put back up now, so disregard)-
day 1   day 2   day 3   day 4   

I relate the following samples with minimal context, but I challenge the reader to imagine any which would render them reassuring-

"I lay there in confidence, grateful for their optimism and prayerful that the God of Jacob would protect freedom's children as they her progenitors would be: Psalm 20."

"Those who despise our freedoms and freedom way of life have been drawn to the magnet of our forwardly deployed forces."

"I would thank God for His acute awareness that the world is, in fact, upside down. I would thank Him for the story of Lazarus the rich man who had lived in luxury and the beggar now at Abraham's side in heaven. I would thank Him for His unshakable and unalterable determination to set things right. I would thank Him for the Beatitude, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." And I would agree with Him that so should it be. Amen."

"I had gone to Iraq thinking, "Mr. President, I believe. Help my unbelief." I was leaving more convinced of the power of freedom and more aware of the potential greatness of the President's vision of democracy for the Middle East."


..... All of which is just wacked. And not in a crazy uncle kind of way either, but in a "person actually in a position to keep the thing going and expand the idea elsewhere" kind of way. Bob's a nice enough guy for a politician, but if you can think of no other reason not to vote for him then don't vote for him for the single reason that he is to all appearances a delusional zealot who more or less openly advocates holy war.

Which is just wacked.


addendum:
Here's an analysis of an 8/21/06 report about Bob's second trip to Iraq.