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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (420465)	6/29/2003 8:48:36 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

"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." Is it possible President Bush really said this to Mahmoud Abbas, the new head of the Palestinian Authority? So reports Israel's most reputable daily Ha'Aretz. Before shrugging the quote off as Palestinian disinformation, or the work of a bad translator, go back and re-read "Bush's Messiah Complex," an editorial that ran in the February 2003 issue of the Progressive magazine. Here are some of the highlights: -The first words former Bush speechwriter David Frum, who is Jewish, ever heard in the White House from George Bush were "Missed you at Bible study." -"I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that supercedes all human plans," Bush said while governor of Texas. This might mean little more than the shopworn religiosity shown by practically every American president, except that Bush is a born-again evangelical Christian who "seems to buy into the world view that there is a giant struggle between good and evil culminating in a final confrontation," says Chip Berlet, a longtime observer of rightwing religious groups. "People with that kind of worldview often take risks that are inappropriate and scary because they see it as carrying out God's will," he says." iraqwarreader.com progressive.org