Did God resign as Dubya's adviser?

[Xipe Totec]

I haven't heard George mention any more advice from the All Mighty, since he was told to strike Saddam:

June 30, 2003

The Revelation of St. George
"God Instructed Me to Strike Saddam"
By CHRIS FLOYD

So now we know. After all the mountains of commentary and speculation, all the earnest debates over motives and goals, all the detailed analyses of global strategy and political ideology, it all comes to down to this: George W. Bush waged war on Iraq because, in his own words, God "instructed me to strike at Saddam."

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd06302003.html

Did God resign, or was he forced out? :shrug:

[babylonsister]

1. I honestly don't think God ever entered into the equation that is the blivet. nt

[Xipe Totec]

5. truthfully, me neither

Should I put a :sarcasm: thingie on the OP to make it obvious?

[Higans]

22. GOD = Gold Oil & Drugs. Yes GOD told shrubya to strike the Iraqi People. N/T

[muntrv]

2. When did God apply for the job?

[Xipe Totec]

3. He was shanghaied as usual

[rurallib]

4. Once someone leaves the team, don't the Bushies start trashing

them immediately? This could be fun!

[Lipton64]

6. As Voltaire once cynically noted:

"God is always on the side of the largest army....."

But apparently even that isn't true now given the way these idiots are mis-managing our military....

[Xipe Totec]

8. David and Goliath n/t

[Az]

11. God vs Iron Chariots

1 Judges 1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

:evilgrin:

[Xipe Totec]

15. Exodus 15:1-18, the "Song of the Sea":

"The LORD... has become my salvation; ... The LORD is a man of war; ... Pharaoh's chariots and his army He cast into the sea; and his select officers are drowned in the Red Sea ... At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up, ... The peoples have heard, they tremble; ... Now are the chiefs of Edom confounded; the leaders of Moab, ... all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away ... they are as still as stone, till Your people, LORD, pass by, ... You will bring them in, and plant them on the mountain of Your heritage, ... The LORD will reign for ever and ever"

[Az]

16. Eh, Pharoah had copper chariots

You need Iron Chariots to stand against God.

[Xipe Totec]

17. LOL!

You got me! :rofl:

[eleny]

"HE" was probably driven to a bar stool

[QuestionAll...]

7. he's spending time with his family. nt

[Xipe Totec]

9. That would be the family of Man

which, of course, does not include Chimps.

[Az]

10. Lets not make a nasty presumption

Lots of people have made very bad descisions even when they believed God was guiding them. Just because George is an idiot and a horrible decider doesn't mean he doesn't believe God was guiding him.

[Xipe Totec]

13. I truly believe, that he believes God speaks to him alone

Then again, there are many others who think this. Most are in protective custody.

I can believe my nail clippers speak to me and gide my actions, but that does not make it so.

Ultimately, we judge and are judged by the results of our actions. If we are Divinely inspired, the proof is in the outcome.

Matthew 7:15 - 19 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits."

[Az]

14. Well thats the thing isn't it

In psychiatric care if you believe the chair is talking to you they keep you a bit longer for observation. But if God is talking to you... they just scratch their heads and release you and hope for the best.

The truth is recent studies show that quite a number of people without neurological disorders hear voices from time to time. And the fact remains that we can create an internal dialog within our mind and even disassociate ourselves from part of the conversation and come to believe it is someone else. Its not crazy. Its just the way the mind works. The best you can do is hope the part of the mind carrying on the other side of the conversation has some good ideas.

[babylonsister]

21. Criminy! You're talking about our 'leader'. "The best you can do is hope

the part of the mind carrying on the other side of the conversation has some good ideas."
If that's the case, no wonder we are so fucked. And wow. I'm not that forgiving.

[Az]

23. I am not that forgiving either

I think George Bush is an idiot. I just also happen to be aware that thinking God is on your side is a relatively common human quality. You don't have to be right to be sane.

[babylonsister]

24. How sane is he to go against the will of the people by ordering

20,000-35,000 more troops into Iraq? It's not a done deal, but it's on the table. Against the will of the people?? I call that insane.

[Az]

25. In George's case

I think there may be cause to argue that he does in fact have a Psychopathic Personality. But that is seperate from the God issue. I would not be suprised to find out that he is a Sociopath. But there is room for doubt in even this. He has so isolated himself in the WH that we simply don't know how cut off from reality he is. He only allows positive information to flow into his world view and this can result is some rather mind numbing bad descisions.

[Mabus]

12. The Dems refused to give Him an up or down vote

so He gave up and went to work in the private sector. :sarcasm:

[Tanuki]

18. Did God say "Fuck Saddam, we're taking him out," or was that

*'s paraphrase?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0519-30.htm

"McClellan insisted the process leading up to the decision to go to war was "very public" - and that the decision to invade in March 2003 was taken only after Iraq refused to comply with its "international obligations."

"The president of the United States, in a very public way, reached out to people across the world, went to the United Nations and tried to resolve this in a diplomatic manner," McClellan said.

"Saddam Hussein was the one, in the end, who chose continued defiance. And only then was the decision made, as a last resort, to go into Iraq."

Of course, this is an utter and complete distortion of the historical record. It was the Bush administration which rushed to war, yanking the inspectors out before they could finish their job - no doubt precisely so they couldn't finish their job and reveal an absence of WMD. It was also Bush himself who, according to Bob Woodward, had popped into a White House meeting in March of 2002, a full year before the war (not to mention also before the congressional vote, the inspectors, the Security Council vote and second non-vote, etc.), to exclaim "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out."

[aaronbees]

19. God quit .... too much overtime and poor pay

That's the BushCo economy.

[bridgit]

20. hm, fair question...

[opihimoimoi]

26. Only one of his many lies.....KO pointed out recent ones...showed clips of a strident POS

Bush has become a Bad Joke gone overboard....