Book excerpt: Faith provides comfort on tough policy decisions, says Bush (the comforter-in-chief )

[Kadie]

Book excerpt: Faith provides comfort on tough policy decisions, says Bush


Sep 27, 2007 4:20 PM (18 hrs ago)
by Bill Sammon, The Examiner


(Gerald Herbert/AP)

(Map, News) - President Bush says there is a moral dimension to his policies on Iraq and abortion, and acknowledges he is “seeking redemption” for “moments in my life when I rejected prayer.”

In an interview for the new book “The Evangelical President,” Bush also revealed that his spirituality has deepened as a result of the Iraq war.

“My faith has grown,” he told The Examiner in an Oval Office interview. “When you put kids into combat, it requires a lot of prayerful moments. It is the prayer of protecting them, for starters, and comforting their families.”

He added: “Probably the most powerful events that affected my thinking and my religion are when I meet with families of the fallen. And it’s remarkable to listen to and see firsthand the faith that many of these families exhibit. The witness of these families has affected me deeply.”

Although Bush always begins such encounters intending to console the mourners, he often ends up being the one who is consoled.

“I marvel — I tell them often that the comforter-in-chief is also the comforted,” Bush said. “Many of them want to comfort me, which is a remarkable act of giving. I ascribe that to the influence of God, in many cases.

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[shain from kane]

1. Your prayers failed 3,800 times, so far. Please don't pray for me. n/t

[TheUniverse]

7. 1 million times.

[shain from kane]

9. I know what you're saying, and you're right, I shouldn't have ignored all of the

others killed in this folly. But you know he didn't pray to Allah, and he doesn't regret for a single minute that they were killed. A story from yesterday indicated that he could have OKed a billion dollars to pay Saddam Hussein to exile himself from Iraq. Surely he could have foreseen the bloodbath. A billion dollars was a cheap solution to the problem.

[neweurope]

2. Ahem - may I

:puke:


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[EFerrari]

3. Every time you think he can't get more creepy, he does

and blames it on his god.

[Az]

4. I seem to recall prayers being uttered in this scene

from the Dead Zone.



Just before the President launched what he believed to be the beginning of Armageddon.

Anyone that believes the end of the world is a good thing probably should not be placed in charge of the weapons that can bring it about.

[Bitwit1234]

5. You'all are wrong he means his dedication to the Devil.

[Rob H.]

6. "Look, I have been very careful not to get into the moral arguments of war”

When has he ever not framed his failed "War on Terror" as THE crucial struggle between Ultimate Good and Ultimate Evil? Fucking never, that's when.

:grr:

[sinkingfeeling]

8. That's enough to turn the Pope into an atheist! Sickening! But I see he gave himself another new

title, 'comforter-in-chief'.

[Johonny]

10. Faith provides comfort on tough policy decisions

I get it that's why he never does anything. He has no faith thus no comfort, thus no ability to make tough policy decisions.

[Rageneau]

11. Can one man give Almighty God a bad name?

If George Bush is a religious man, what decent person would want to be religious?

If George Bush is on God's side, what decent person would want to also be?

The Bible says that God will not be mocked. And yet it seems thhat Bush mocks the whole idea of a loving and just God dozens of times each day.

Will God show Smirk that He means what He says someday?

Sure hope so.