Did Gods voice really tell Bush to invade Iraq or was it one of those Son Of Sam things?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1586978,00.html

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'


President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace

Ewen MacAskill
Friday October 7, 2005
The Guardian

George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.

Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."

Mr Bush went on: "And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And, by God, I'm gonna do it."

Mr Bush, who became a born-again Christian at 40, is one of the most overtly religious leaders to occupy the White House, a fact which brings him much support in middle America.

[sakabatou]

1. Son of Sam

[Rhoads]

2. Son of Prescott

[unhappycamper]

3. Shithead. n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Perhaps it was a Edgar Bergen kind of thing

[Liberal Veteran]

5. If one is to believe the followers of "God", God is in need of some serious psychiatric help.

He obviously has some kind of disorder that is causing him to suggest increasingly violent and wildly contradictory things.

I'm the God of peace....invade this country and kill people.
Suffer the little children to come unto me....and drown them one by one.
I love everyone...except gays.
Be fruitful and multiply....but if you do so before 18, you are a slut!

Should I go on?

[PDJane]

7. Lord, no.........

don't forget the "God supports genocide, if it's muslims and pagans"......I think that means anyone brown, and yes, someeone has actually said that to me.

[NanceGreggs]

6. "One of the most overtly religious leaders ...

... to occupy the White House"

If causing the deaths of millions of innocent people, creating more poverty in the US, lying, theiving, and promoting torture is what passes for 'overtly religious' these days, I guess that's true.

[Warpy]

8. It was either Cheney or Sun Myung Moon

and a lot of the code Stupid uses in his speeches makes me suspect the latter.

Moon has a pathological hatred of all things socialist, and whatever else Saddam was, he was a socialist who provided a pretty good life for the people who kept their heads down and escaped his specific notice.

[Az]

9. George just doesn't recognize his own voice

Assumed it was God.

[Rosemary2205]

10. I think it was the Jim Beam and Cocaine.

[razors edge]

11. Can I get an Amen to that?

:evilgrin:

[Bitwit1234]

12. Probably the Son of Sam thru Barney or Miz Beasley

[zonmoy]

13. I suspect it would depend on your opinion of the nature of god

I figure it would be god because it would fit my view of gods malevolence.

[melody]

14. I believe the Onion broke the inside story on this one that it was Cheney throwing his voice

:)

[Vidar]

15. In Bush's addled brain, God, Cheney & Idi Amin just blur together.

[genie_weenie]

16. It was Erik Prince of Blackwater

who is convinced NOW is the Endtimes and that he and his mercs must be a trained, battle hardened and funded army for THE JESUS...

[madokie]

17. all I know is the last time I heard that voice I'm glad I didn't listen to it

but really people who hear voices worry me especially when that person in in charge of whatever it is.

[lutefisk]

18. I think it's all a sort of "tent-show preacher" scam

Mike Whitney wrote about it:

"The Bush presidency has been the most elaborate public relations swindle in the history of the country. From his inauguration to the present day, Bush's every move has been carefully choreographed to maximize the ambitions of his handlers. His appearances have meticulously exorcised any fractious elements that might suggest that he is not unanimously revered by the American people.

As Noam Chomsky notes:"For George Bush the younger, PR specialists and speechwriters have constructed the image of a simple man with a direct line to heaven, who relies on his gut instincts as he strides forward to rid the world of evildoers while contemplating his visions and "dreams, a caricature of ancient epics and children's tales, with an admixture of cowboy fiction."

George Bush is entirely the invention of Madison Ave and the feverish imagination of Karl Rove. If it was possible to get close enough, you could probably pass your hand through the pasty gray spectral figure that is the central image of this political light show. There is simply nothing there."


http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney09242004.html

I don't think Junior gives one shit about God.