HERE YA GO....
> The Revelation of St. George
>
> "God Instructed Me to Strike Saddam"
>
> By CHRIS FLOYD
>
> So now we know. After all the mountains of commentary and speculation,
> all the earnest debates over motives and goals, all the detailed
> analyses of global strategy and political ideology, it all comes to
> down to this: George W. Bush waged war on Iraq because, in his own
> words, God "instructed me to strike at Saddam."
>
> This gospel was revealed, appropriately enough, in the Holy Land last
> week, through an unusual partnership between the fractious children of
> Abraham. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz was given transcripts of a
> negotiating session between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
> and faction leaders from Hamas and other militant groups. Abbas, who
> was trying to persuade the groups to call a ceasefire in their
> uprising against Israeli forces, described for them his recent summit
> with Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush.
>
> During the tense talks at the summit, Bush sought to underscore the
> kind of authority he could bring to efforts at achieving peace in the
> Middle East. While thundering that there could be "no deals with
> terror groups," Bush sought to assure the rattled Palestinians that he
> also had the ability to wring concessions from Sharon. And what was
> the source of this wonder-working power? It was not, as you might
> think, the ungodly size of the U.S. military or the gargantuan amount
> of money and arms America pours into Israel year after year.
>
> No, Bush said he derived his moral heft from the Almighty Himself.
> What's more, the Lord had proven his devotion to the Crawford Crusader
> by crowning his military efforts with success. In fact, he told Abbas,
> God was holding the door open for Middle East peace right now--but
> they would have to move fast, because soon the Creator and Sustainer
> of the Universe would have to give His attention to something far more
> important: the election of His little sunbeam, Georgie, in 2004.
>
> Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by Haaretz: "God told me to strike
> at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at
> Saddam, 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."
>
> You can't put it plainer than that. The whole chaotic rigmarole of
> Security Council votes and UN inspections and Congressional approval
> and Colin Powell's whizbang Powerpoint displays of "proof" and Bush's
> own tearful prayers for "peace"--it was all a sham, a meaningless
> exercise. No votes, no inspections, no proof or lack of proof--in
> fact, no earthly reason whatsoever--could have stopped Bush's
> aggressive war on Iraq. It was God's unalterable will: the Lord of
> Hosts gave a direct order for George W. Bush to "strike at Saddam."
>
> And strike he did, with an awesome fury that rained death and
> destruction on the mustachioed whore of Babylon, with a firestorm of
> Godly wrath that consumed the enemy armies like so much chaff put to
> the flame--and with an arsenal of cruise missiles, cluster bombs, dive
> bombers and assault helicopters that killed up to 10,000 innocent
> civilians: blasted to pieces in their beds, shot down in their fields
> and streets, crushed beneath the walls of their own houses, boiled
> alive in factories, ditches, and cars, gutted, mutilated, beheaded,
> murdered, women, children, elders, some praying, some wailing, some
> cursing, some mute with fear as metal death ripped their lives away
> and left rotting hulks behind. This was the work of the Lord and His
> faithful servant, whom He hath raised high up to have dominion over
> men.
>
> And this is the mindset--or rather, the primitive fever-dream--that is
> now directing the actions of the greatest military power in the
> history of the world. There can be no doubt that Bush believes
> literally in the divine character of his mission. He honestly and
> sincerely believes that whatever "decision" forms in his brain--out of
> the flux and flow of his own emotional impulses and biochemical
> reactions, the flattery and cajolements of his sinister advisers, the
> random scraps of fact, myth and fabrication that dribble into his
> proudly undeveloped and incurious consciousness--has been planted
> there, whole and perfected, by God Almighty.
>
> And that's why Bush acts with such serenity and ruthlessness. Nothing
> he does can be challenged on moral grounds, however unethical or evil
> it might appear, because all of his actions are directed by God. He
> can twist the truth, oppress the poor, exalt the rich, despoil the
> earth, ignore the law--and murder children--without the slightest
> compunction, the briefest moment of doubt or self-reflection, because
> he believes, he truly believes, that God squats in his brainpan and
> tells him what to do.
>
> And just as God countenanced deception on the part of Abraham, just as
> God forgave David for the murders he ordered, just as God blessed the
> armies of Saul as they obliterated the Amalekites, man, woman and
> child, so will He overlook any crime committed by Bush and his minions
> as they carry out His will. That's why Bush can always "do whatever it
> takes" to achieve his goals. And by his own words to Abbas, we see
> that he places his election in 2004 above all other concerns, even the
> endless bloodshed in the Middle East.
>
> So what new crimes will the Lord have to countenance to keep His
> appointed servant in power?
>
> Chris Floyd is a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular
> contributor to CounterPunch. He can be reached at: >
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