Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War; Bush, God, Iraq and Gog

[laststeamtrain]

Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War
Bush, God, Iraq and Gog

By Clive Hamilton

May 23, 2009 "Counterpunch" -- The revelation this month in GQ magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means?

The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush’s Christian millenarian beliefs that has yet to come to light.

In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.

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“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle … and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”

Bush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac:

“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins”.

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[blonndee]

1. I have a wack job uncle who believes this stuff.

It's mind-boggling the baloney people willingly swallow.

And, if true, how unspeakably embarrassing that bush would actually say such a thing to Chirac. What a loon.

[frebrd]

2. More than anything else......

he is pathetic!

[gratuitous]

3. Isn't it nice nobody thought to ask Bush about these loony beliefs?

Wouldn't want to piss off the "Left Behind" and "Late Great Planet Earth" dimwits. Of course, none of them know enough to ask any of the right questions that would bring this delusional bullshit into the light. Much better to just pretend there's a normal guy squatting in the Oval Office. The kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with. Yeah, that's the ticket. And then sit on damaging revelations (thank you, New York Times) so as not affect the elections. Because God forbid the American people cast a ballot based on anything resembling facts.

[conspirator]

4. There is a unified nostradamus/book of revelation/middle east/WW3 profecy

Just google for it
I don't believe that stuff but it is actually a fascinating reading

[spanone]

5. god was bu$h*s nickname for cheney?

[IDFbunny]

6. I believe some of that looney stuff.

I don't see how anybody can assess the state of the world and say, everythings fine, nuclear war will be avoided indefinately, deseases and pestilences will always be contained and so on. It seems Jersualem will be ground zero to all that. I don't believe in the supernatural but I do believe we are approaching a new epoch.

[gratuitous]

7. Fortunately

You're not in a position to bring about any of the changes you'd like to see or that you think have been ordained based on your reading of obscure texts and stove-piping of poorly-understood passages shorn of context. The United States wasn't quite that fortunate from 2001-2009, and we squandered a trillion dollars, probably a million lives, and practically every shred of our credibility as a nation.