The main bit is quoted above by nanne, from Revelation: Satan is freed and unleashed to deceive the nations, (alluded to as Gog and Magog by back-reference to Old Testament prophecy). It all ends up in a whopping battle around what other than the Holy Land and Jerusalem. All the baddies get tasered if not nuked, and in the end the born-again Christians and all the converted Jews survive and Jerusalem can be the Bride of Christ. The End.
How much do we need to know about all this? I mean, how much do we want to know? :-(
But if it is true that Bush really spoke this way to Chirac, that is really unsettling. What could it mean? That Bush thought it would help persuade Chirac? That he thought Chirac would understand and get hip to the End Times narrative? The mind boggles. That, even though he didn't expect Chirac to be swayed, Bush thought he was duty-bound to bear witness to the truth?
Let me out of here.
Counterpunch: The Revelation of St. George: "God Instructed Me to Strike Saddam" by Chris Floyd on June 30, 2003
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.
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.
This proves:
