Bush Believed War was Armageddon

[stephendare]

http://www.alternet.org/politics/140221

Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins"

By Clive Hamilton, CounterPunch. Posted May 25, 2009.

Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.

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.

There can be little doubt now that President Bush's reason for launching the war in Iraq was, for him, fundamentally religious. He was driven by his belief that the attack on Saddam's Iraq was the fulfilment of a Biblical prophesy in which he had been chosen to serve as the instrument of the Lord.

Many thousands of Americans and Iraqis have died in the campaign to defeat Gog and Magog. That the US President saw himself as the vehicle of God whose duty was to prevent the Apocalypse can only inflame suspicions across the Middle East that the United States is on a crusade against Islam.

There is a curious coda to this story. While a senior at Yale University George W. Bush was a member of the exclusive and secretive Skull & Bones society. His father, George H.W. Bush had also been a "Bonesman", as indeed had his father. Skull & Bones' initiates are assigned or take on nicknames. And what was George Bush Senior's nickname? "Magog".

[AmyLynne]

Well, at least it wasn't just for the oil....

[DavidWilliams]

Is Cheney Anti Christo?    He is pretty evil looking and full of doomspeak.

[kramer2k]

Cool paintings/images.

[civil42806]

Well, at least it wasn't just for the oil....

LOL

[Ocklawaha]

I think this is hilarious, but not for the same reasons as most seem to think...

For 2000 years+ the Christian churches have been saying we're headed into Armageddon in the last "days". The Bible also describes these last days the generation that See's Israel return to it's homeland (that would be 1948). So here we go with perhaps a hair brained President that "inserts himself" into ancient prophecy... To me the timing of the whole mess is oddly an "I told you so," from above. The really funny part is how Bush seemed to think he could just name and fabricate the players out of whole cloth. But the 1948 thing, and the location of 99% of the Worlds troubles right now are equally incredible. If anyone would have told the World in 1945, at the end of WWII, that the Mideast would have the power to bring all of us to our knees, they would have been sent to the funny farm. Nobody's  laughing now! Gotta admit, there was never a dull moment with Bush at the top.

OCKLAWAHA

[civil42806]

May I point out the Bush Isn't president any more, that the end of the world did not happen.  We are all safe and sound.   The Constitution is still in tact, at least for the moment.  Though you never know what the "one " may want.

[JaguarReign]

No, you just turn on the TV and see yet another gaffe from the idiot in charge and his cronies. Are you kidding me? Obama is the biggest joke in presidential history. He can't run this country, his approval rating is plummeting, and he cannot multitask worth the country's life. First all he focused on was the economy. Now all he can focus on is health care which is failing to gain ground in any facet of the country except the non-taxpaying uninformed college students. Clash for Clunkers was a tremendous failure as it only lasted a number of days. Only a fraction of the stimulus money has been spent. This is the first time in over fifty years that a president has lost the kind of approval percentage that he has. Bush didn't even lose as much. You have to be a blind leftist to not see that Obama has not done one freaking that he has promised to do and now everybody is pissed because they didn't get their checks. The only reason Bush keeps coming up as you have is because of the lack of positives to speak about the Obama administration. Let's forget about Bush because this is Obama's country. It is his economy, his presidency, his CIA, and his war. 

[JaguarReign]

If the Bush legacy will be a stain for decades, then I weep because the Obama legacy will stain the country for centuries. The budget, by the way, is different than the stimulus which was supposed immediately stimulate the economy. The TARP money passed under the Bush administration hasn't even fully been spent.

[JaguarReign]

Plus, anything will pass Congress it seems because everything is run by Democrats. This makes his health care plan a failure because even his loyalists in Congress won't quickly pass the bill. The reception they have received at the town hall meetings (whatever you believe is behind it) will even hinder these efforts.