Bush: ‘Gog and Magog Made Me Do It’
Invade Iraq, that is. And just one more story the MSM didn’t cover: A raging born-again religious fanatic lunatic was President.
El Somnambulo cannot make this stuff up. But here’s the sourced inside skinny, starting w/Daily Kos, and continuing with an account from the Council for Secular Humanism:
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.
Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
Now out of office, 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.”
Anyone disinclined to believe ‘secular humanists’ will no doubt be disappointed to find that Chirac has subsequently confirmed, and never, challenged, this account:
Subsequently, ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty event in a long interview with French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new book, Si Vous le Répétez, Je Démentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher Plon.
This, of course, is not the only apocalyptic Bush talk on the war in Iraq:
The French revelation jibes with other known aspects of Bush’s renowned evangelical certitude. For example, a few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush attended a 2003 summit in Egypt. The Palestinian foreign minister later said the American president told him he was “on a mission from God” to defeat Iraq. At that time, the White House called this claim “absurd.”
Recently, GQ magazine revealed that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attached warlike Bible verses and Iraq battle photos to war reports he hand-delivered to Bush. One declared: “Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground.”
Unlike the constantly-debunked ‘birth certificate’ story given daily play in what passes for the mainstream media, this never-debunked, but exceedingly important story has been generally ignored:
Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he started his Iraq war. My own paper,The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, is the only U.S. newspaper to report it so far. Canada’s Toronto Star recounted the story, calling it a “stranger-than-fiction disclosure … which suggests that apocalyptic fervor may have held sway within the walls of the White House.” Fortunately, online commentary sites are spreading the news, filling the press void.
Gee, maybe the News-Journal will find this story so compelling…that it will allow someone to write an op-ed about it. Beats having reporters do their jobs.
Tags: Biblical Prophecies, Bush, Complicit Media, Iraq, Wingnuts
I do remember reading this somewhere when it happened. Probably on some wacky left wing blog. But there were so many Bush outrages, I forgot about it.
This is scary. BTW, have you guys been reading about Erik Prince the CEO of Blackwater? He’s being accused of murder and lot of crazy stuff.
That must have been the night Harold and Kumar dropped in to visit. They was , high,high,high.
Ya know there are the stories about Nixon roaming the White House talking to the pictures. And then we had Reagan who was well along with his altzheimers by the time he left office. And Poppy Bush was a nice spineless guy. And then there was George the Terrible. It looks to me like the rich people who bought the office for this string of Republicans really and truly wanted somebody there who could be controlled, manipulated, and for sure wouldn’t get any ideas.
As unemployment tanks. As debt mounts. As Obama fails you have to bring up Bush. So typical
You’re riddled with tumors and you have the audacity to blame your impending death on cancer?
douchebag
‘As unemployment tanks. As debt mounts. As Obama fails you have to bring up Bush. So typical’
Bush policies, or those enacted on his watch wrecked the economy. He launched the war in Iraq and cut taxes simultaneously. I realize that reality has a liberal bias, but even rational conservatives can see the lunacy in that. Now we learn that credible evidence exists that Bush thought he was an actor in a Biblical prophesy. More lunacy. It seems totally appropriate to bring up Bush.
Obama failing is, on the other hand, quite subjective. Many people seem to think he is succeeding at the things he set out to do since winning the election; even those who don’t like what he is accomplishing.
Conservitives use the internet to rewrite history, Quick get a library card before they decide to burn the real history books.
OK – I am not generally into the partisan thing, but let me pose a question for douchebag (I still prefer calling this particular douchebag ‘Pornstashe’):
Excactly how long was it that conservatives were blaming Clinton for everything under the sun?
Whether in spite of him or not, he oversaw the greatest economic expansion of the last 50 years and ran the government with a surplus. Yet we heard nothing but complaints about what poor George inherited. Republicans brought him up every chance tey had for years after he was out of office.
Bush was protecting steel companies and spending all the cash they could the day he got in office. They opened the doors for any indurtry player willing to pay and actively sought to push career employees with actual expertise out of any department they wanted to turn into a rubber stamp (like the Fed, SEC and OTS which are relevant to the discussion).
He and his cronies turned a national tragedy into an opportunity to loot the treasury through no bid contracts and condemned hundreds of thousands to death in wars that made no sense. He rained terror on Iraq, Pakistan, and Afganistan that eclipsed the tragedy brought on to us – and at a tremendous economic and political cost.
He and his keepers were criminals and thieves who stole from the people of this country. They are war criminals and he and his cronies should be at the Hague fighting for their lives. He was a national embarrassment.
I think the there will be a fair debate on his administration for years to come. At least as long as conservatives tried to blame Clinton for everything.
The Obama bashing does not bother me – he has already proved he is a corporate shill and will be better than Bush if only because he is less blood thirsty and drunk on Christ. My issue is with a partisan living breating talking point like Herr Protack calling it ‘typical’ for anyone to do exactly as he and his ilk have done for years.
You are an empty shell of a human being if you believe any of your own bullshit. You are what is wrong with political discourse in our society.
To Delaware republican:
Why read into this as politically motivated? It’s VERY important to see what Bush was doing so it doesn’t happen again. Throughout the war the Bush administration crusaded, “This is not a religious war.” Now we are hearing it was all along.
Protack is part of the Jesus kills terrorists camp. You cannot forget that. He saw Bush as the culmination of his hopes and dreams from a religious standpoint.
But don’t worry, he has been challenged, so he will not return to this thread.