Errand Boy

By Chris Floyd

06/26/03: (Moscow Times) 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 this 
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 cease-fire 
in their uprising against Israeli forces, described for them his 
recent summit with Ariel Sharon and 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 the United States 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-Qaida 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?  

Burning Bush? Our President Claims That He Is Gods Messenger: 
Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, 
and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did"  

(c) Copyright 2003 Moscow Times

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Cheers, Steve..

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