Thursday, August 13, 2009

Too Strange To Make Up

President Bush really did see the Iraq War as a mission from his God. Yikes.

See SecularHumanism: A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

Maybe more of Bush's religious fanaticism will be revealed in Cheney's upcoming memoir?