| "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them,
and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am
determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
MOSCOW -- SO, now we know. After all the mountains of commentary
and speculation, all the earnest debates over motives and goals, all the
detailed analyses of global strategy and political ideology, it all comes
to down to this: George W. Bush waged war on Iraq because, in his own words,
God "instructed me to strike at Saddam."
This gospel was revealed, appropriately enough, in the Holy Land this week,
through an unusual partnership between the fractious children of Abraham.
The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz was given transcripts of a negotiating session
between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and faction leaders from
Hamas and other militant groups. Abbas, who was trying to persuade the
groups to call a cease-fire in their uprising against Israeli forces, described
for them his recent summit with Ariel Sharon and Bush.
During the tense talks at the summit, Bush sought to underscore the kind
of authority he could bring to efforts at achieving peace in the Middle
East. While thundering that there could be "no deals with terror groups,"
Bush sought to assure the rattled Palestinians that he also had the ability
to wring concessions from Sharon. And what was the source of this wonder-working
power? It was not, as you might think, the ungodly size of the U.S. military
or the gargantuan amount of money and arms the United States pours into
Israel year after year.
No, Bush said he derived his moral heft from the Almighty Himself. What's
more, the Lord had proven his devotion to the Crawford Crusader by crowning
his military efforts with success. In fact, he told Abbas, God was holding
the door open for Middle East peace right now -- but they would have to
move fast, because soon the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe would
have to give His attention to something far more important: the election
of His little sunbeam, Georgie, in 2004.
Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by Ha'aretz:
"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He
instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined
to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and
if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
You can't put it plainer than that. The whole chaotic
rigmarole of Security Council votes and UN inspections and congressional
approval and Colin Powell's whizbang Powerpoint displays of "proof"
and Bush's own tearful prayers for "peace" -- it was all a sham,
a meaningless exercise.
NO votes, no inspections, no proof or lack of proof -- in fact, no earthly
reason whatsoever -- could have stopped Bush's aggressive war on Iraq.
It was God's unalterable will: the Lord of Hosts gave a direct order for
George W. Bush to "strike at Saddam."
And strike he did, with an awesome fury that rained death and destruction
on the mustachioed whore of Babylon, with a firestorm of Godly wrath that
consumed the enemy armies like so much chaff put to the flame -- and with
an arsenal of cruise missiles, cluster bombs, dive bombers and assault
helicopters that killed up to 10,000 innocent civilians: blasted to pieces
in their beds, shot down in their fields and streets, crushed beneath the
walls of their own houses, boiled alive in factories, ditches and cars,
gutted, mutilated, beheaded, murdered, women, children, elders, some praying,
some wailing, some cursing, some mute with fear as metal death ripped their
lives away and left rotting hulks behind. This was the work of the Lord
and His faithful servant, whom He hath raised high up to have dominion
over men.
And this is the mindset -- or rather, the primitive fever-dream -- that
is now directing the actions of the greatest military power in the history
of the world. There can be no doubt that Bush believes literally in the
divine character of his mission. He honestly and sincerely believes that
whatever "decision" forms in his brain -- out of the flux and
flow of his own emotional impulses and biochemical reactions, the flattery
and cajolements of his sinister advisers, the random scraps of fact, myth
and fabrication that dribble into his proudly undeveloped and incurious
consciousness -- has been planted there, whole and perfected, by God Almighty.
And that's why Bush acts with such serenity and ruthlessness. Nothing he
does can be challenged on moral grounds, however unethical or evil it might
appear, because all of his actions are directed by God. He can twist the
truth, oppress the poor, exalt the rich, despoil the Earth, ignore the
law -- and murder children -- without the slightest compunction, the briefest
moment of doubt or self-reflection, because he believes, he truly believes,
that God squats in his brainpan and tells him what to do.
And just as God countenanced deception on the part of Abraham, just as
God forgave David for the murders he ordered, just as God blessed the armies
of Saul as they obliterated the Amalekites, man, woman and child, so will
He overlook any crime committed by Bush and his minions as they carry out
His will. That's why Bush can always "do whatever it takes" to
achieve his goals. And by his own words to Abbas, we see that he places
his election in 2004 above all other concerns, even the endless bloodshed
in the Middle East.
So what new crimes will the Lord have to countenance to keep His appointed
servant in power?
© Copyright 2003 Moscow Times
Comment
lostonearth
6-30-03
Doesn't "revelations" and other prophecies state that there will
be kings and false prophets that will claim direct "chain of command"
to/from god? |
