British declare Armitage a Knight Commander

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<b>Britsh declare Armitage a Knight Commander</b>


Honoured with a KCMG is Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state under Colin Powell between 2001 and 2005 and a leading player in rallying diplomatic support for the Iraq invasion. Mr Armitage's role in the Iran-contra arms smuggling scandal was controversial enough to prevent him becoming army secretary in 1989. He worked alongside Oliver North to trade arms to Iran illegally and siphon profits to the Nicaraguan contra rebels.


In all, nine Americans received honours for helping to strengthen relations between the US and Britain, notably during the Iraq war. Captain John Peterson, chief of staff to the commander of the US navy in the Middle East, was awarded a CBE for - according to the Pentagon - leading British and American forces "in the campaign to secure Iraqi oil assets" at the start of the 2003 invasion. An honorary knighthood goes to Arnold Fisher, chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which has given financial support to the widows and children of US and UK service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.


General Michael Moseley, chief of staff to the US Air Force, has also been made into an honorary "sir", as has Admiral Frank "Skip" Bowman, who served 38 years in the US navy, ending up as the director of the organisation responsible for running US nuclear submarines and ships.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics...1759821,00.html


As one can see the christians judge a persons' morals and honor on what he has contributed to sabotage the "Kingdom of God".


<b>So who is a KCMG?</b>


He is a Knight Commander of St Michael and St. George. A military tradition traced back to The Crusades.





St. George was adopted as the patron saint of soldiers after he was said to have appeared to the Crusader army at the Battle of Antioch in 1098. Many similar stories were transmitted to the West by Crusaders who had heard them from Byzantine troops, and were circulated further by the troubadours. When Richard 1 was campaigning in Palestine in 1191-92 he put the army under the protection of St George.


In 1348, George was adopted by Edward 111 as principal Patron of his new order of chivalry, the Knights of the Garter. The objective of the Order was probably to focus the efforts of England on further Crusades to reconquer the Holy Land. The earliest records of the Order of the Garter were destroyed by fire, but it is believed that either in 1348 or in 1344 Edward proclaimed St George Patron Saint of England.


http://www.britannia.com/history/stgeorge.html