What IS God telling Bush?
Divine intervention has been quite prevalent in our society over the last few centuries, from the woman who suddenly finds the superhuman strength to pull her child from under a horse and carriage, to the 2004 Boston Red Sox.
It stands to reason that when we call out and receive true divine intervention, usually two things DO NOT happen: death and destruction.
In a BBC documentary series slated to air this fall, it is said to reveal how Bush was told by God to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. This corroborates the story Washington Post reporter great Bob Woodward writes in his book, "Plan of Attack ", where in interviewing Bush, he DOES say that God told him to attack Iraq. So why is the White House now denying it?
It's funny how God seems to think this weedy, dumpy, cocaine-sniffing dry-drunk (who apparently is back on the booze full-time these days), who has never been successful with anything he's ever done, who has had everything handed to him his whole life on a silver platter, is the savior for the Middle East. This man who despises liberalism, science and intelligence and embraces only religion and his gradually-shrinking base of supporters. This man who doesn't really listen to anyone's point of view, and goes off instead on a destructive disastrous tear to settle a family vendetta. THIS is the best God could do?
"I'm driven by a mission from God."
Yeah well, so was Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi in the 1978 "The Blues Brothers". And yet the similarties are rather scary. In trying to do a godly thing, these two lamebrains succeed only in causing widespread destruction. True, they eventually DO get to their goal, but at what cost? Surely the damage done to downtown Chicago will permenantly shut down that orphanage they tried so hard to save. So what was really the point? Surely the $800 billion we've spent on Iraq so far is already biting our asses here on the homefront. Gas is at an all-time high, the poor planning for Katrina has wiped out at least 1% of our economy for the year, and we STILL don't have bin Laden. If you're keeping score at home, that would be Iraq 0 and Bush 0. The only real scorer right now is Al-Qaeda because instead of them being entirely wiped out like was promised, they have flourished, thrived, and are responsible for even more attacks than ever before.
If God was sooo hot for Bush to attack Iraq, couldn't He have been a little more helpful and said something like, "Okay, the weapons of mass destruction are HERE." and a small light would come down a la "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and show the location on a large map of Iraq. Who would have thought that the heavenly light instead so far has been pointing squarely on Washington, D.C. and more specifically the White House?
Guess Bush must be mistaking the light for that divine intervention he keeps bragging about.
But thankfully for us all, God does have a sense of humor. When interviewed by Bob Woodward and asked if God truly did tell Bush to invade Iraq, God just laughs softly and shakes His head saying, "Why would I talk to that idiot? I've got my hands full with the 2005 Boston Red Sox right now!"
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It stands to reason that when we call out and receive true divine intervention, usually two things DO NOT happen: death and destruction.
In a BBC documentary series slated to air this fall, it is said to reveal how Bush was told by God to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. This corroborates the story Washington Post reporter great Bob Woodward writes in his book, "Plan of Attack ", where in interviewing Bush, he DOES say that God told him to attack Iraq. So why is the White House now denying it?
It's funny how God seems to think this weedy, dumpy, cocaine-sniffing dry-drunk (who apparently is back on the booze full-time these days), who has never been successful with anything he's ever done, who has had everything handed to him his whole life on a silver platter, is the savior for the Middle East. This man who despises liberalism, science and intelligence and embraces only religion and his gradually-shrinking base of supporters. This man who doesn't really listen to anyone's point of view, and goes off instead on a destructive disastrous tear to settle a family vendetta. THIS is the best God could do?
"I'm driven by a mission from God."
Yeah well, so was Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi in the 1978 "The Blues Brothers". And yet the similarties are rather scary. In trying to do a godly thing, these two lamebrains succeed only in causing widespread destruction. True, they eventually DO get to their goal, but at what cost? Surely the damage done to downtown Chicago will permenantly shut down that orphanage they tried so hard to save. So what was really the point? Surely the $800 billion we've spent on Iraq so far is already biting our asses here on the homefront. Gas is at an all-time high, the poor planning for Katrina has wiped out at least 1% of our economy for the year, and we STILL don't have bin Laden. If you're keeping score at home, that would be Iraq 0 and Bush 0. The only real scorer right now is Al-Qaeda because instead of them being entirely wiped out like was promised, they have flourished, thrived, and are responsible for even more attacks than ever before.
If God was sooo hot for Bush to attack Iraq, couldn't He have been a little more helpful and said something like, "Okay, the weapons of mass destruction are HERE." and a small light would come down a la "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and show the location on a large map of Iraq. Who would have thought that the heavenly light instead so far has been pointing squarely on Washington, D.C. and more specifically the White House?
Guess Bush must be mistaking the light for that divine intervention he keeps bragging about.
But thankfully for us all, God does have a sense of humor. When interviewed by Bob Woodward and asked if God truly did tell Bush to invade Iraq, God just laughs softly and shakes His head saying, "Why would I talk to that idiot? I've got my hands full with the 2005 Boston Red Sox right now!"
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