New Messiah!
Wow, it looks like God has finally come to His senses ... He has come to talk to us again in form of a human being just like Christ!
Ladies and gentlemen, proudly present ... The latest Messiah: George Walker Bush!
God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers
President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals.In Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.
Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"
Abu Mazen was at the same meeting and recounts how President Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."
The series charts the attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, from Bill Clinton's peace talks in 1999/2000 to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last August.
Norma Percy, series producer of The 50 Years War (1998) returns, with producers Mark Anderson and Dan Edge, to tell the inside story of another seven years of crisis.
Presidents and Prime Ministers, their generals and ministers tell what happened behind closed doors as peace talks failed and the intifada exploded.
Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace - Mondays 10, 17 and 24 October, from 9.00 to 10.00pm on BBC TWO.
posted by La Bona at 10:36 AM
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Huray, I'm glad to see the BBC makes it all the way over there!
I find it quite amusing just how much fuss those reported lines have caused over here. Most of the press have reacted as if 'the voice of God' is either a sign of megalomania or crazyness. Just goes to show how much our post-enlightenment west lives in a pit of assumptions. This is not to say that we shouldn't question how easily God seems to be lining up with noe-conservative foriegn policy mores. Just that the very notion of hearing God is not something totally outlandish in the historic world of religion.
Is George Bush serious or what?
I can only imagine the reaction of the Palestinian ministers at that meeting...
Judging by the way this caem out through them...they were probably quite phlegmatic about it, if only by tiresome experience.
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