This is slightly old school, but oh well

I was assigned to transcribe a Sarah Palin interview. Here you go.


SARAH PALIN SEZ...

Charles Gibson asks Sarah Palin if the Iraq War is a holy war.

Q: You said recently in your old church: "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?

A: You know, I don't if that was my exact quote--

Q: That's your exact words.

A: --But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words, when he said--first he suggested, "Never presume to know what God's will is." and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words, but what Abraham Lincoln had said and that's a repeat in my comments was, 'let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side." That's what that comment was all about Charlie.

Q: I take your point about Lincoln's words, but you went on and said "There is a plan, and it is God's plan."

A: I believe there is a plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good. I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given, Charlie, and I believe that those are the rights to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That in my world view is a grand--

Q: But--

A: -- the grand plan.

Q: But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?

Q: I don't know if the task is from God, Charlie, what I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made what he decided to do, in serving for the right reasons, is serving something greater than self, and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer.