2005-10-07 - 4:47 p.m.
GOD TELLS BUSH WHAT TO DO
By Peter Fredson
October 7, 2005
This country is reported to be under the direct administrative control of the Christian Biblical God. It is reliably stated that God has relayed instructions to the President of the United State, George W. Bush, on invasion plans and killing Muslims, although he may not be available for the national economy, environment, medicine, floods, terrorist disasters or other national preoccupations, judging from the failures of Bush to accomplish much in those directions. Bush still seems to consult him for advice on gays and marriage, abortion, pledges, commandments and prayer in school.
The saintliness of Bush has been long vaunted amongst fundamentalist circles, his born-again circumstances, and his propensity to refer to God in most speeches. For this alone the True Believers will give their votes, money, support, and shrillest denunciations of non-believers to Bush.
It is instructive to examine the press briefing of Scott McClennan in which he bravely attempts to explain the secretive stances of his boss with nonspecific specifics sounding remarkably like balderdash.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-6.html
October 6, 2005
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
Excerpt:
Q Have you ever heard the President say that God told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, and I've been in many meetings with him and never heard such a thing.
Q Are you aware of the -- there's a BBC broadcast tonight that's quoting the Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister as saying that they were in a meeting with the President in June of '03, and there are some very detailed quotes here, saying that the President said to them, "God told me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan,' and I did," and then "God told me, 'George go and end the tyranny in the Iraq'" and so forth and so on?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, that's absurd. He's never made such comments.
Q Were you in the meeting when that took place?
MR. McCLELLAN: I've been in meetings with him with President Abbas; I didn't travel on that trip, if you're talking about to Jordan. But I've been in many meetings with the President with world leaders where he's talked about this.
Q So you don't know about the June '03 meeting?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, I checked into that report and I stand by what I just said.
This denial confirms reports of previous Bush interviews with his God.
The BBC on Thursday released an excerpt from an interview with Palestinian information minister Nabil Shaath that was part of a series called "Israel and the Arabs". Shaath described his first meeting, in company with Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen, in June 2003.
He said that President Bush said to all of them: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me: 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did.
"And then God would tell me: 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.'
"And I did.
"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."
Abu Mazen told the BBC that, at the same meeting, Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."
Also, reporter Al Kamen of the Washington Post reported, "Imagine our surprise Wednesday to read in the Israeli paper Haaretz (online), that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen, meeting recently with militants to enlist their support for a truce with Israel, said that, when they met in Aqaba, President Bush had told him this: 'God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [ Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.' "
So Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded by Divine Directive straight from the Supreme Creator of the Universe, now known as Creative Intelligence, into the brain, or ear, of a clueless President. Bush has twice used the word “crusade” against the Muslims, but he hastily retracted the word each time as it might seem contrary to his stated desire to bring peace, democracy, and liberty to the Middle East. However his faithful Reconstructionists, Dominionists, Charismatics and general followers of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson know that Bush, like themselves, would welcome the demise of heretic Islam.
They believe that Bush, led directly by the hand of God, will bring on the long-awaited Apocalypse and everyone will die and go straight to the golden streets of heaven, and play harps while flitting around the clouds on white wings. They are quite willing to trade this moderately successful democracy for a semifascist theocracy which will start the universal wars toward Armageddon.
It is indeed comforting to know that although poor Bush, who is all tired out from his failed attempts at governing a large country can depend on the Final Authority when the chips are down. We may now expect him to announce soon that he will invade Iran, or perhaps Syria, as soon as he can get his troops out of Iraq. The trouble is that God seems to have lost interest in Bush getting out of Iraq and has left him to stay the course all by himself.
Meanwhile Bush will attempt to identify evil throughout this planet, calculate what preemptive actions are necessary, find some pretext to invade (the job for Condi Rice), and bring in his Creator to whomp the evil doer. Undoubtedly this will create some resentment amongst people being preempted but Rumsfeld is willing to kill as many as necessary to allow his Glorious Leader to strut, swagger, and smirk, knowing that his God is available for odd jobs.
Meanwhile all the people in jail for killing their family members on God’s orders now can institute legal suits for their instant release as having a legitimate excuse for their actions.
