Jesus told me to attack Iraq...he also told me to clear more brush
I don't know why everybody is so surprised with the whole President Bush "God told me to bomb the hell out of Iraq" brouhaha. Whether he really said what he said to the Palestinian negotiator that has caused this latest uproar, and whether or not this was to be taken literally, let's look at other recent comments from the Connecticut-Texan. The Independent's Washington correspondent, Rupert Cornwell, points out what Bush told journalist Bob Woodward in the oval office for last year's Plan of Attack, (which, you know, I haven't actually read myself, cause there's like, 467 pages according to Amazon-but once the Reader's Digest condensed version comes out, I am all over that. Please...I am a working fake journalist-I'm too busy investigating how much Joe Volpe spends on pizza to be spending any time reading books.)
But, I digress:
Cornwell writes:
"He told Bob Woodward - whose 2004 book, Plan of Attack, is the definitive account of the administration's road to war in Iraq - that after giving the order to invade in March 2003, he walked in the White House garden, praying "that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty". As he went into this critical period, he told Mr Woodward, "I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will.
"I'm surely not going to justify war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case, I pray that I will be as good a messenger of His will as possible. And then of course, I pray for forgiveness."
Another telling sign of Mr Bush's religion was his answer to Mr Woodward's question on whether he had asked his father - the former president who refused to launch a full-scale invasion of Iraq after driving Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991 - for advice on what to do.
The current President replied that his earthly father was "the wrong father to appeal to for advice ... there is a higher father that I appeal to"".
Woodward's book was released in April of last year. I'd be fascinated to hear God's take in all of this. A rebuttal should be forthcoming from the heavenly press office shortly.
But, I digress:
Cornwell writes:
"He told Bob Woodward - whose 2004 book, Plan of Attack, is the definitive account of the administration's road to war in Iraq - that after giving the order to invade in March 2003, he walked in the White House garden, praying "that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty". As he went into this critical period, he told Mr Woodward, "I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will.
"I'm surely not going to justify war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case, I pray that I will be as good a messenger of His will as possible. And then of course, I pray for forgiveness."
Another telling sign of Mr Bush's religion was his answer to Mr Woodward's question on whether he had asked his father - the former president who refused to launch a full-scale invasion of Iraq after driving Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991 - for advice on what to do.
The current President replied that his earthly father was "the wrong father to appeal to for advice ... there is a higher father that I appeal to"".
Woodward's book was released in April of last year. I'd be fascinated to hear God's take in all of this. A rebuttal should be forthcoming from the heavenly press office shortly.
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