Bush Prays for Iraq (unofficial transcript)

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Bush prays for peace

Bush at Easter:

"Laura and I just had the honor of celebrating Easter Sunday with members of our Armed Forces. I had a chance to reflect on the great sacrifice that our military and their families are making. I prayed for their safety, I prayed for their strength and comfort, and I pray for peace.

This is a joyous day for many people around the world, and it's a day for us to reflect on the many blessings in our lives."


I've obtained an unofficial transcript of the prayer Bush gave before the troops . . .


God, hear my prayers,

I pray for peace in Iraq. I pray for our soldiers.

I pray that Congress passes legislation giving me more money to continue my military assault on Iraqis. I pray that Americans listen to my generals who are advocating a "way forward," rather than listen to the politicians who are calling for an end to the occupation and the return home of our nation's defenders.

I pray that Congress will not succeed in preventing me from sending even more soldiers to fight and die - for historically unprecedented, extended tours - in the middle of the warring factions in Iraq, on one side of a multi-fronted civil war.

I pray that Congress will not be allowed to set a date certain for withdrawal from Iraq so that, along with the escalation of troops, there will be an escalation of the sacrifices of life and limb from our "volunteers and patriots who has made the noble decision to serve."

I pray that loss of over 3,280 US soldiers in Iraq will continue to escalate, as the increase in attacks on our soldiers there eliminates the potential for violence here.

I pray that Congress not be allowed to restrict my ability to wage even more aggression against nations who would stand in the way of my strident military imperialism, like Iran or Syria. Give me the strength to develop even more nuclear weapons to launch strikes on the underground nuclear labs I imagine in Iran; to prevent them from developing and exploding their own nuclear weapon.

Gift me Lord, with a deft flex of military and political muscle to transform the presumption of innocence among nations who stand in my way, even in the face of a clear absence of proof, into a conquered victim of the tainted consensus of a cabal of my purchased allies.

Discourage those in the Mideast, Lord, who had hoped the hunger to divide their region militarily had waned with the end of the first Gulf War. Let my new doctrine of preemption serve as a corrosive example for those countries who may feel threatened enough by their neighbors to move to resolve their fears militarily instead of engaging in the long-established enterprise of diplomacy and negotiation.

Help me Lord, as I invite all who would do our nation and our interests harm to join the battle in Iraq and ally with the forces that threaten our soldiers daily. Help me do what Hussein could not by likening Iraq to the worldwide Muslim terror offensive; help me bind Iraqis to the Muslim extremists.

Help me retreat Lord, from the peaceful influence of a great nation of justice; humbled by bloody, devastating wars, witnessed to the power of liberty, and to the freedom inherent in the constitution we wisely defend with our peaceful acts of mercy, charity, and tolerance.

I pray that my random exercise of our military strength and destructive power will not serve as a deterrent to these rouge, radical terrorist organizations who claim no permanent base of operations. I pray that the wanton, collateral bombing and killing will alienate any fringe of moderates who might join in a unified effort of regime change which respects our own democratic values of justice and due process.

I pray that our oppressive posture pushes the citizens of these sovereign nations to more forced expressions of their nationalism in defense of basic prerogatives of liberty and self-determination.

Most importantly, I pray Lord, for the power to shackle countless generations of Americans to a corporate agenda of U.S. world domination, supported by the perpetual sacrifice of the lives and blood of generations of our sons and daughters in a continuous world war.

God bless America. Amen.


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[madokie]

1. I sure hope he doesn't start praying for me

sounds like you may have an inside connection. ;-) 'cause you know that is exactly what he prays for

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2. you don't want to become part of the 'presidential prayer team'?

http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ppt_Info



"News of The Presidential Prayer Team is spreading rapidly throughout America as people march to the tempo of an almost forgotten tune, "God Bless America."

The independent, nonprofit organization behind The Presidential Prayer Team, has a singular purpose: to encourage Americans to pray daily for the President."

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3. too funny

my prayers would only fall on deaf ears, methinks

[paparush]

4. 1st Timothy 2:1-2

QUOTE
Here then is my charge: First, supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings should be made on behalf of all men: for kings and rulers in positions of responsibility, so that our common life may be lived in peace and quiet, with a proper sense of God and of our responsibility to him for what we do with our lives.
END QUOTE

Kings and rulers...well, that's W.

Our common life may be lived in peace and quiet...if only.

W better read that last phrase again...responsibility to him for what we do with our lives.

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5. kick

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6. boot