Iraq cleric prays for Bush to follow Sharon into coma

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/April/focusoniraq_April98.xml§ion=focusoniraq


BAGHDAD - The prayer leader of one of Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosques asked God to make US President George W. Bush suffer the same fate as Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, who formally lost power on Friday after being declared permanently incapacitated by a coma.

In his sermon at the main weekly prayers in the capital’s Abdel Qader Al Kilani mosque, Sheikh Mahmoud Issawi raised his hands to the sky with tears flowing from his eyes and called on God to strike down the US president.

“Lord, make the fate of the criminal Bush like the fate of the criminal Sharon, make him suffer in this world before the next,” Issawi said, before lapsing into silence, apparently overcome.

He went on to say that the “forces of occupation” were responsible for the violence and killings currently taking place in Iraq.

[soothsayer]

1. On this holy Good Friday, amen

[Kutjara]

2. But...

...doesn't he realise that Bush has BEEN in a coma since 1985?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He is in a coma; he just keeps walking around and babbling anyhow.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. LOL! agreed!

[darkmaestro019]

14. It's that Ambien thing they were talking about! lol eom

[cynatnite]

4. I'd never pray that, but I understand the desire to see it. n/t

[Mr_Spock]

5. Lol - I think we all wish for this...

Is that wrong?

[darkmaestro019]

15. No. It's the innate wish to SURVIVE. nt

[Mr_Spock]

18. I agree

[UTUSN]

7. Ha-HAH! ---------*I* didn't say that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[ContraBass Black]

8. I'll admit

That the headline alone brings a smile to my face.

[tatertop]

9. I just became a prayin' man

[rpannier]

10. Guy sounds like pat robertson

a fundie is a fundie is a fundie.

[Ilsa]

11. What? He's not sending Bush an Easter wreath or flowers?

Even after all of that "freedom" Bush says he brought them.

All those Iraqis do is whine, whine, whine. :sarcasm:

[JanusAscending]

12. This is my kinda guy!!

n/t:toast: Sorry..........P.S. GOD KNOWS!! I only pray that soon the whole world will wake up and smell the coffee!

[tularetom]

13. Too late -it already happened

This guy is as nutty as Mullah Robertson but his prayers actually seem to work. Bush is already incapacitated.

[DBoon]

16. So he'd rather deal with Cheney directly?

rather than through his monkey-messenger?

[AlienGirl]

17. How could we tell if it did happen?!