Mithaqi said that after two years of being lectured to by U.S. diplomats in Baghdad about the need to separate '' mosque from state '' in the new Iraq , he was also floored to read that the former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr , now a law school dean , said on the radio show of the conservative James Dobson that Miers deserved support because she was '' a very , very strong Christian -LRB- who -RRB- should be a source of great comfort and assistance to people in the households of faith around the country . '' ''