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Land letter

The Land Letter was a letter sent to President George W. Bush by evangelical Christian leaders on October 3, 2002 which outlined their theological support for a just war pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. The letter was written by Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was co-signed by Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries, Bill Bright, chairman of Campus Crusade for Christ, James Kennedy, president of Corel Ridge Ministries, and Carl D. Herbster, president of the American Association of Christian Schools.

The letter outlined how a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq met the criteria of traditional 'just war' theory:

Other than the evangelical wing of the Christian church in America, few if any other Christian bodies worldwide were able to consider the facts known in October 2002 and derive from them a justification for an invasion of Iraq.

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