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Monday, May 25, 2009

Good Gog, it's Magog Brothers
Posted by Jill | 7:56 AM




And to think this guy was President for eight years:

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.

In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy:

"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".

The story of the conversation emerged only because the Elyse Palace, baffled by Bush's words, sought advice from Thomas Romer, a professor of theology at the University of Lausanne. Four years later, Romer gave an account in the September 2007 issue of the university's review, Allez savoir. The article apparently went unnoticed, although it was referred to in a French newspaper.

The story has now been confirmed by Chirac himself in a new book, published in France in March, by journalist Jean Claude Maurice. Chirac is said to have been stupefied and disturbed by Bush's invocation of Biblical prophesy to justify the war in Iraq and "wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs".

In the same year he spoke to Chirac, Bush had reportedly said to the Palestinian foreign minister that he was on "a mission from God" in launching the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and was receiving commands from the Lord.


It would be easy to heave a great sigh of relief that we somehow managed to survive having a delusional religious lunatic in the White House for eight years, were it not for the fact that the man who used George W. Bush's insanity to his own ends is out there on the stump trying to rewrite history -- and almost 4 in 10 Americans are now thinking he makes sense.

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Blogger Bob said...
Firesign Theater suggested that the world would make more sense if we assumed we lost WWII. Not that Germany won, but that powers other than nations won the war & the people who fought & believed they'd won actually lost.
5/25/09, 3:29 PM  
Anonymous newbroom said...
eggsackly....everybody loses in war, except the scumbag profiteers.
5/26/09, 5:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Carefully wipe off the covers that Rumsfeld delivered to Cheney. $2 to $200 that there is ejaculatory material from either or both on all of them. Ain't DNA a bitch, boys?
There must be some rules or regulations or even laws about jerking off on federal super secret reports.
5/27/09, 1:41 AM  
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