Chirac: Bush Half-Cracked When He Started His Iraq War

[kpete]

It’s awkward to say openly, but now-departed President Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who “got saved.” He never should have been entrusted with the power to start wars.

A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
JAMES A. HAUGHT

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

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Subsequently, ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty event in a long interview with French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new book, Si Vous le Répétez, Je Démentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher Plon.

Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he started his Iraq war. My own paper, The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, is the only U.S. newspaper to report it so far. Canada’s Toronto Star recounted the story, calling it a “stranger-than-fiction disclosure … which suggests that apocalyptic fervor may have held sway within the walls of the White House.” Fortunately, online commentary sites are spreading the news, filling the press void.

The French revelation jibes with other known aspects of Bush’s renowned evangelical certitude. For example, a few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush attended a 2003 summit in Egypt. The Palestinian foreign minister later said the American president told him he was “on a mission from God” to defeat Iraq. At that time, the White House called this claim “absurd.”

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more:
http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5

[Mari333]

1. nutty as a fruitcake , but

instead of being investigated, we are supposed to forget about this war criminal and welcome him into the WH.
I call bullshit to that.

[Solly Mack]

3. I can't forget

and I won't pretend

[shadowknows69]

72. Not alone in that Solly.

[Solly Mack]

79. Thank you, shadowknows69

[midnight]

33. I agree.

[leftstreet]

51. +1

[Enthusiast]

59. I call bullshit with you! nt

[winyanstaz]

62. me too..because Bush was half cracked BEFORE he started that war...

He just got more cracked :P

[MissDeeds]

83. +1 n/t

[Fumesucker]

2. Just half?

Nope, bushie was and is full metal loony-tunes..

[Swamp Rat]

52. The second half... The first half cracked at birth when Barb immediately used him as a bottle opener

[HughBeaumont]

81. Those two assholes could scare roaches away from a crumb-pile.

Spot-on as usual, Swamp Rat.

[spanone]

4. k&r for unusual honesty

[Jamastiene]

5. Bush is all cracked.

K&R for exposure.

[glitch]

19. Along with the rest of his family. They are trained to be very successful sociopaths.

The religious crackpottery is only one CON.

[Jackpine Radical]

21. This has always been my view.

Twisted & personality disordered, not psychotic.

[liberation]

37. The "ends justifies the means" and their "moral certitude" and "complete lack of empathy"...

... leads me to believe that the whole clan is indeed operating under a full blown psychopath or sociopath mode...


You'll see, mark my words, in another one or two election cycles there will be anther Bush in the ticket.

[Jackpine Radical]

80. If you want chapter & verse on the Bushies, read Family of Secrets

by Russ Baker.

I'm told he guy writes like the gossip columnist he is, but that his groundwork seems pretty solid.

[PassingFair]

48. Full-On Humpty Dumpty cracked!

[hedgehog]

6. Now, see, I don't believe that claim for a minute......

"Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse."


Everyone knows that a true Fundy wants to assist the Apocalypse!

[DefenseLawyer]

7. Gee, you might have mentioned that at the time.

I'm just sayin.

[defendandprotect]

41. Otoh, Bush told us that God told him to invade Afghanistan and then to invade Iraq!!

What was the corporate-press reaction to that ---

or even the American public's reaction?

Insanity -- of course!

There is something very wrong with these people --

with most of the right wing --

[DefenseLawyer]

54. Point taken

But it's just hard to imagine having General Ripper come in telling you he's about to start fighting the apocalypse and just saying "Oh well okay, I hope that works out for you. Maybe I'll write a book about it in 10 years."

[defendandprotect]

90. Nixon, as I recall, also was trying to give the impression he was insane enough to nuke VN . ..!!

Giving the opposition more to worry about than military strategy --

Ironically, in the end, they did take his ability to press any buttons away from

him - - at the very end of Watergate!

[Yurovsky]

8. It was always seen as a "crusade" by the wingnuts...

in the Bush white house.

"We're on a mission from God". - Elwood Blues

[3waygeek]

9. Half-cracked? Half-crocked is more like it...

I'm pretty sure Dumbya started drinking again soon after 9/11 (if he ever really stopped in the first place).

[tularetom]

10. A mission from God, huh?

(Alex Hughes cartoon from the Tribune (UK))

[Submariner]

11. The guy is/was nuts, yet his party let him destroy the nation for 8 years

Well this is their leader's legacy forever, which sums up the Bush regime in a nutshell.

[democrank]

12. K & R for reply #11

[UTUSN]

13. K&R #11 !1 for ZOOM it!1 Too bad Jacques didn't spill back then. n/t

[Hekate]

43. Remember how the country of Lafayette was mocked as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"?

Our ally from the Revolutionary War onward was mocked by Republican RW lackeys from every medium, especially radio and cable TV.

If Jacques Chirac had said that publicly he would have been called a liar by every one of them, and also on the floor of the House and Senate.

George W. Bush -- I long to spit on your grave.

Hekate

[snowshadow]

55. There has to be a million of us,

who are just waiting for that very same day so that we can also spit on his grave.

[cartach]

84. Spit ?

Piss is the word.

[MUAD_DIB]

88. Personally, I intend to have a full bladder for my visit.

[Enthusiast]

60. It was a huge propaganda

effort to discredit the French for being correct about Iraq.

"Freedom Fries", my God. The number of American citizens that bought into anti French propaganda illustrates just how gullible the population is.

[SpiralHawk]

69. Freedom Fries yesterday, Teabaggery today

That's the Republicon sheeple, ruled by the corporate fatcat manipulators and their corps of overpaid chickenhawk media whores like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and Beck.

[Enthusiast]

76. Ed Zackery. nt

[liam_laddie]

82. Don't stop at spittle!

I'll raise you a stew of urine and excrement! :fistbump:

[samsingh]

14. kick

[BeyondGeography]

15. Trying that "logic" with any Frenchman shows you how hopeless and fargone he was

[bread_and_roses]

16. Gog and Magog. ROFL - although it's not so funny in the big picture

with goddess knows how many Iraqis dead...nothing will wipe out the shame of this country electing that abomination - there's some biblical language that fits. Obama can ignore and obfuscate all he wants - it will not change anything.

[Overseas]

17. K&R. Right wing dominance of US media minimized a lot of news

the US public needed to hear emphasized, like all the reasons against the Bush Gang's war of choice in Iraq.

[DeSwiss]

18. Not half-cracked....

...but fully cracked down to the bone.

- K&R

[alfredo]

24. He's one of those Calvinist who believe that he is saved no matter

what he does to others. He is one of the elect.

[Botany]

20. gog and magog

[TankLV]

86. I think it should be changed to show bunkerboy and his heartless shrew "ma"...

[G_j]

22. ? Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation ..?

seems pretty status quo to me.

[indepat]

23. A religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who "got saved?" Sir, shame, for you are

speaking of the man for whom 95% of the signs in my neighborhood in early November 2004 screamed: four more years, four more years. We got four more years and the messes are here for all to see, yet the messes Obama inherited are all Obama's fault according to those 95% in my neighborhood who were junior's supporters. Go figure. :P

[liberation]

36. Is your street named "Lobotomy Lane" by any chance? nt

[indepat]

92. Might as well be. I'm confident some Kerry signs were removed for only about 75%

to 80% are hard-core true-believers. :D

[HughBeaumont]

25. Think it says a lot more about the Kangaroo SCOTUS and the American voters than it does Bewsh II.

Maybe the consummate and ubiquitous FAIL that was the King Bewsh II Administration will teach Americans to start having someone of intelligence, education and reason represent them instead of dry drunks who "think with their gut" and look to the advice of Sky Ghosts to dictate serious matters of economics and foreign policy.

Maybe this will teach them to stop voting against their self interests.

Maybe in turn, it will make them a bit WISER for the WARE.

Maybe.

[TankLV]

87. I wouldn't bet on it - look for "nakid boy" in your future...

[Vinnie From Indy]

26. Smirky's handlers had to tell the dumb son of a bitch something

to get him to do as he was told. I would bet that Darth Cheney gave him one of those religious comic books with Gog and Magog in it and that sealed the deal.

[shimmergal]

49. I KNEW those Gog and Magog

characters were monsters from a comic book! Shouldn't W have gone out to wrestle with them personally, though?

Nah--he's no Superman.

[Union Yes]

27. Reading this makes me want to eat french fries. Have to ask though..

what does one need to do to be full-cracked? :)

Kidding of course.

Chirac as a statesman had to show some restraint in his criticism or it would have be much harsher.

[SmileyRose]

28. Our media was complicit.

lest we forget

[ThomWV]

29. This is not the first time this has been reported. I read it at least 4~5 years ago.

I believed it then, I believe it now.

[slay]

30. K&R - Too bad Democrats are the only ones EVER held accountable.

n/t

[rhett o rick]

31. The sad thing isnt that Georgie was an idiot, it's that Congress wet themselves trying to please him

King George Bush the Idiot Son of Barbara was only a tool of CorpAmerica. Their is a good reason they didnt choose Jeb. They wanted the Idiot son. I am not sure that Poppy evens gets it.

[Martin Eden]

32. Chimpy may have been a religious nutcase, but that wasn't behind the decision to invade Iraq

Cheney, the neocons, Big Oil, and AIPAC were behind this.

Chimpy would have gone along with or without Gog and Magog.

[Enthusiast]

61. <Newman's voice> Nevertheless. nt

[CLANG]

34. More like "Grog and MadDog"

[Hekate]

56. SNAP

I like that. :evilgrin:

Hekate

[EmeraldCityGrl]

35. How did we survive him?

I think back now and wonder haw we lived through those years. The ruins still lay all around us.
Yesterday when Obama spoke before the Republicans I wondered if he was watching and if his
little mind could grasp the glaring difference between the brilliant man speaking and his own
befuddled self.

[hatesthegop]

38. Why in the fuck

didn't he say that in the exact same way when this was coming down?

[Harry Monroe]

39. Fucking frightening that he was our president for 8 years and had his finger on the nuclear button!!

[lunasun]

40. This can never happen again

There are new soldiers every day who are in the war for Christ,this is a big network and even the talkers like Palin call it 'God's plan' I think that was what she called it. These can all be back in place at the WH sooner than you think and the military more and more a crusade against Islam. Imagine the conversations between European leaders and Palin. It can not happen again

[Enthusiast]

63. "It can not happen again"

But with the help of the American media and the ignorance of the American people, it probably will.

[many a good man]

42. He is one sonuva....

[L0oniX]

44. That's far worse than Nancy Regan's star and palm reading bull shit.

[flvegan]

45. So, when is Chirac going to be subpoenaed to testify? Oh, right.

I forgot. Complicitness before justice.

[gimama]

46. a little sumpin to share..

www.prosecutegeorgebush.com
&
www.indictbushnow.org
for ME, the nightmare isn't over till it happens.

[flyarm]

47. and we had some in Congress that had the freaking nerve to change the name of French Fries ..when we

had the fucking nut case in the White House starting wars??

Wow..how this nation of ours has digressed to the crapper!

And our congress is crap! and worse.

Then and now!

Stop these illegal wars..and i don't give a fuck who is in office..it is their war! To keep these wars going makes a war criminal out of anyone who keeps these wars going! end of story!

[D23MIURG23]

50. Heh. So much for their not being a religious motive,

as if that wasn't obvious already.

[existentialist]

53. No shit.

[AzNick]

57. Funny, I can imagine Chirac talking about it

So that you know, he is a very direct man who grew up in a small town, he is very rural in the way he speaks, although he is quite educated. Bush wishes he could speak English as "good" as Chirac.

Chirac, while being down to earth, speaks like a common man, except with no grammar mistakes, although he uses a lot of slang words (which don't always translate from region to region).

I am glad he did not go along with Bush's plan. History has already showed how right he was.

What is interesting is that Chirac is a conservative and actually very pro-America (little known fact: he once considered emigrating to the US but his parents were strongly against it) while Blair, who went along with Bush, is a leftist, meaning less likely to walk in lockstep with America.

[Enthusiast]

58. What could Chirac

possibly hope to gain from lying about this? Nothing! I believe him, completely. It would explain the stupid Iraq invasion rationalizations from the Bush Administration.

This is why so many of us are angered when President Obama reaches out to the criminally insane Bush Administration. If there was ever a criminal in these United States of America that deserved severe punishment for their crimes, it is George W Bush and his cabal of Neo-Nazis.

[LeftishBrit]

64. Only half?

[Turborama]

65. Let's not forget his evangelical nutjob "'God will be my judge on Iraq'" poodle Tony Blair

Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq'

By Andy McSmith
Saturday, March 4 2006

Tony Blair has proclaimed that God will judge whether he was right to send British troops to Iraq, echoing statements from his ally George Bush.

Contradicting warnings from advisers not to mix politics and religion, the Prime Minister said that his interest in politics sprang from his Christianity and its "values and philosophy" had guided him in public life.

Explaining how he managed to live with the decision to go to war in Iraq, Mr Blair replied: "If you have faith about these things then you realise that judgement is made by other people. If you believe in God,it's made by God as well." His remarks, made in an interview to be shown on ITV's Parkinson show tonight, invite comparison with President Bush, a born-again Christian, who has made a virtue of bringing religion into politics. But they also carry the risk of inflaming opinion in the Arab world, where the term "crusader" is commonly used to condemn Christian leaders who meddle in the Middle East.

It is also exactly the sort of comment he has been repeatedly urged not to make for domestic purposes, because of the risk that a sceptical British public will react badly to politicians who appear to be "preaching". Mr Blair was instructed by his former director of communications, Alastair Campbell: "We don't do God."

Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-god-will-be-my-judge-on-iraq-468512.html

Oh yeah, they didn't bring that one up with Teflon Tony in the "inquiry", did they...?

[malaise]

66. Wasn't Pat Robertson his spiritual adviser

at the time?
We all know Bush is beyond bat shit crazy.

[Turborama]

67. Seriously?

I didn't know that, I wouldn't be surprised though, either.

[malaise]

68. I sure heard that ages ago - read this article to see all the ReTHUG links with Robertson et al

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm
<snip>
But it would be a mistake to limit Dominionism to the Pentecostals and fundamentalists alone: conservative Roman Catholics and Episcopalians have joined and enlarged the swelling numbers.<47> Robertson, like other media preachers, used every form of communication: television, radio, books and audio tapes available for sale. One book stands out. Originally published in 1982 and written with Bob Slosser, a key Robertson loyalist, Pat Robertson’s The Secret Kingdom soared on the bestseller charts. It underwent four printings during its first year. By 1984 Bantam published a mass paperback in cooperation with Thomas Nelson, the original publisher. (Though the book has since been revised, my quotes are from the original version.)



However, it was the Pentecostals and fundamentalists who made up the core of Robertson’s audience. To a people who were largely uneducated and who often remained ignorant even if they went through college because of their fear of becoming tainted by the “world and worldliness,” Dominionism came as a brilliant light that assuaged their deep sense of inferiority. Pentecostals in particular could take comfort from the notion that no longer would the world think of them as “Holy Rollers” who danced in the “Spirit” and practiced glossolalia. This time, they would be on top—they would be the head and not the tail—and the so-called elite, the educated of the world, would be on the bottom.



A new world was coming. To help the transition along, Pat Robertson, along with other pastors, evangelists and churchmen, founded schools, universities and colleges throughout the United States to train “Christians” how to run for office, how to win, and how to manage the affairs of government after they gained office. To get an idea of how successful the plan was, Robertson’s Regent University now has a $100 million endowment. After watching the Dominionists takeover the Republican Party and observing their ruthless methods, it is indeed apparent that Machiavellian principles are the fuel running their “How to Manual.”



Starting with a class of only twelve in 1985, Robertson began his Journalism Department at CBN University where 800 other graduate students were earning Master degrees in a fully accredited institution. Later Robertson changed the name of CBN University to “Regent University”—based on Dominionism’s teaching that the national government of America and governments of the world will be ruled by Dominionists, who will act as regents on an interim basis, that is, until the true King—Jesus Christ—will return to earth again and gratefully accept His Kingdom from the hands of His faithful regents.

[giabelsi]

70. OK......

But why didn't we bring our troops come home as promised after the election? Our departure date remains the same. Despite Bush's references to the Bible, and how crazy it is that we're there - We are in fact still there. It's none of our business what the Iraqi do or who the ruling party in Iraq is. They have been killing each other for thousands of years. All that killing/genocide justified by religion. I agree that war based on religious beliefs is not something we should be taking part in. It's ridiculous that we waste American resources or lives interfering. And the threat to Israel boils down to a family feud. Again, none of our business. Why should we care what happens in the Middle East?
What can we possibly accomplish? As soon as we leave Iraq will be back to the same old same old. Anything we accomplished will just be reversed.

Unfortunately there were parallels of Bush and Obama that I ignored during the election. They both had problems in their youth. Change. Maybe not so much....

Disappointed

[Christa]

71. K & Highly rec'd

If I believed in Satan I would have thought he was Satan himself. But after reading the Bible I really believe he is closer to the war hungry, blood thirsty god of the old testament.

[Soylent Brice]

73. we've been saying this here for YEARS.

it's shitty to see that people in a position to have an impact say these things AFTER he wrecked the fucking country.

[paparush]

74. Gog & Magog, aka - Bush & Cheney nt

[peekaloo]

75. "on a mission from God" sayeth the Booze Brother.

Gog and Agog...the Pete and Repeat of da Bible.

[Dr.Phool]

77. K&R

I wish James Haught would take over the NYT or WaPo.

Then we might get some serious reporting in this country.

[RedCloud]

78. Important to get this out before the revisionists rewrite the histroy.

[TankLV]

85. So - all of us were RIGHT when we were ridiculed on here for saying that....YEARS AGO!!!

let alone the MSM...

WHY IS THIS SOCIOPATHIC WAR CRIMINAL STILL "FREE"?!!!

[Vermontgrown]

89. What is frightening about W is the fact that regular Americans,

like most DUers, can see how nuts he was at a distance, but people nearby, such as those in Washington, seem to be in denial that they would follow this insanity. So does that make us the linch mob who must carry out the good deeds for the blind...

[Paper Roses]

91. Interesting to see this is print. I hope a big issue is made of this

and that the information finally makes it to the press or TV. We need to see and hear GWB vilified in a public forum.

Rachel?