From a burning bush to George Bush [View All]

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http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Harris_Michael/2005/10/07/1251727.html

U.S. President George Bush has finally given his real reason for invading Iraq.

In the documentary, to be aired in the U.K. on three successive Mondays starting on Oct. 10, this is what 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."

It seems appropriate to note at this juncture that George's media body-armor, Scott McClellan, is now on record with the BBC firmly denying that God is now on the Bush White House staff. According to the latest set of rented presidential tonsils, the story is "absurd": God does not advise the president and besides, the administration has already provided a variety of reasons for invading Iraq to please every taste.

Still, I have my doubts Scott. This, after all, is the president who said that Michael Brown was doing a bang-up job of dealing with Hurricane Katrina. This is the man who tirelessly defended Tom DeLay until the former Republican majority leader in the Senate was twice indicted by a Texas grand jury. This is the Commander in Chief who continues to stand behind Donald Rumsfeld, a man whose idea of basic war planning is based on a free shopping spree in Wal-mart. And isn't George also the guy who hung a medal the size of a dessert plate around George Tenet's neck for his "slam dunk intelligence" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?