GW Bush: Tool of the Lord, or Just a Tool?

[JennyD]

Recently, it has come to light that George W. Bush used Biblical prophecy to persuade former French President Jacques Chirac to enter the Iraq War. Bush expressed that he was on a “Mission from God”. Was he, in fact, on a Mission from Rumsfeld . . . to bring down America?

We recently learned that Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld added Bible quotes to top-secret briefings about the Middle East:

This mixing of Crusades-like messaging with war imagery, which until now has not been revealed, had become routine. On March 31, a U.S. tank roared through the desert beneath a quote from Ephesians: “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” On April 7, Saddam Hussein struck a dictatorial pose, under this passage from the First Epistle of Peter: “It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.”

We also know that George W. Bush is a devout Christian.

2003: Bush said to James Robinson: ‘I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can’t explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen… I know it won’t be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.’

Not a Reconstructionist, but a Millenialist . . . but, that’s not generally considered a Salvation issue.

Was Bush influenced by Donald Rumsfeld? Or should we call him Donald Rasputin?

This article on AlterNet tells us a bit more of the story:

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.

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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”.

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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.

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.

We do not question Mr. Bush’s faith at the time, though he seems to have lost it toward the end of his term. However, here we can see how his divergence from a Reconstructionist viewpoint caused him to be vulnerable to manipulation by Donald Rasputin, whom we now believe to be a terrorist working to bring down the United States of America by overcommitting its military in unwinnable and politically unpopular wars.