Was Bush on a mission from God?

[sabra]

Source: Toronto Star

WASHINGTON–George W. Bush comes to Toronto today bedevilled by fresh questions about whether the former U.S. president felt the hand of God driving his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bush, a born-again Christian since age 40, arrives for today's paid speaking engagement at Metro Toronto Convention Centre with fellow former president Bill Clinton amid a series of stranger-than-fiction disclosures, one of which suggests that apocalyptic fervour may have held sway within the walls of his White House.

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Stranger still are new accounts emerging from France describing how former president Jacques Chirac was utterly baffled by a 2003 telephone conversation in which Bush reportedly invoked fanatical Old Testament prophecy – including the Earth-ending battle with forces of evil, Gog and Magog – in his arguments to enlist France in the Coalition of the Willing.

"This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins," Bush said to Chirac, according to Thomas Romer, a University of Lausanne theology professor who was later approached by French officials anxious to understand the biblical reference. Romer first revealed his account in a 2007 article for the university review, Allez savoir, which passed largely unnoticed.

Chirac, in a new book by French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, is quoted as confirming the surreal conversation, saying he was stupefied by Bush's reference to biblical prophecy and "wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs."

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/642352

[navarth]

1. Mars, the God of War maybe. NT

[liberal N proud]

2. Is that the loving god or the vengeful god?

It always blows my mind, one minute god is all loving and the next vengeful.

It's pickn' n choosn' Christianity.

[CatWoman]

3. along with these guys?

:)

[Echo In Light]

4. Nope - on a 'mission' via the PNAC

[valerief]

10. PNAC is god nowadays, I guess. nt

[Echo In Light]

16. Bush was an appropriate puppet for them to use

[peace frog]

5. I'm certain he thought he was

God's chosen messenger on earth, whose duty it was to hasten the Rapture in every way possible. :crazy:

[YOY]

6. So are Cheney and the Neocons calling themselves 'God' lately.

n/t

[YOY]

7. Dupe

n/t

[Stellabella]

8. So why is Bush considered sane (by some) when he talks like this, but

Son of Sam is considered mentally ill? They both 'heard God' and 'followed the instructions'.

[Echo In Light]

9. LOL...Carlin had a bit on those who hear 'voices' ...

It was something like, why is it that when people hear voices, the voices always tell them to kill somebody? Don't the voices ever tell someone to go take a shit on the Wendy's salad bar?

[Orsino]

11. Cthulhu or Hastur, maybe. n/t

[HopeHoops]

12. Bush's "god" is red, has horns, a tail, and carries a pitch fork.

So yes, he WAS on a mission from his god.

[Vickers]

13. "I blame God for all my fuckups!"

:eyes:

[Cleita]

14. If his god is named Johnny Walker, sure.n/t

[havocmom]

15. working on his insanity defense for war crimes?

No, god had nothing to do with it. Nor did the devil. He listened to the voices of neocon chicken hawks and was to lazy to look into whether or not they were telling him facts or fairy tales.

Send him to the Hague along with the rest of his top policy makers.

[madamesilverspurs]

17. Mission from God?

By all means, with "from" being the operative word. As in "far from", very far from.

Bush has never given any evidence of real faith. He has given abundant evidence of speech-writers who know how to thumb a Bible concordance. His behaviors reveal someone who may have had a moment of spiritual zeal at some point, but came to realize that there's greater financial gain in using God as an advertising gimmick.