A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush

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A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
JAMES A. HAUGHT

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

After the 2003 call, the puzzled French leader didn’t comply with Bush’s request. Instead, his staff asked Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of Lausanne, to analyze the weird appeal. Dr. Romer explained that the Old Testament book of Ezekiel contains two chapters (38 and 39) in which God rages against Gog and Magog, sinister and mysterious forces menacing Israel. Jehovah vows to smite them savagely, to “turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,” and slaughter them ruthlessly. In the New Testament, the mystical book of Revelation envisions Gog and Magog gathering nations for battle, “and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”

In 2007, Dr. Romer recounted Bush’s strange behavior in Lausanne University’s review, Allez Savoir. A French-language Swiss newspaper, Le Matin Dimanche, printed a sarcastic account titled: “When President George W. Bush Saw the Prophesies of the Bible Coming to Pass.” France’s La Liberte likewise spoofed it under the headline “A Small Scoop on Bush, Chirac, God, Gog and Magog.” But other news media missed the amazing report.

Subsequently, ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty event in a long interview with French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new book, Si Vous le Répétez, Je Démentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher Plon.

Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he started his Iraq war. My own paper, The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, is the only U.S. newspaper to report it so far. Canada’s Toronto Star recounted the story, calling it a “stranger-than-fiction disclosure … which suggests that apocalyptic fervor may have held sway within the walls of the White House.” Fortunately, online commentary sites are spreading the news, filling the press void.

The French revelation jibes with other known aspects of Bush’s renowned evangelical certitude. For example, a few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush attended a 2003 summit in Egypt. The Palestinian foreign minister later said the American president told him he was “on a mission from God” to defeat Iraq. At that time, the White House called this claim “absurd.”

Recently, GQ magazine revealed that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attached warlike Bible verses and Iraq battle photos to war reports he hand-delivered to Bush. One declared: “Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground.”

It’s awkward to say openly, but now-departed President Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who “got saved.” He never should have been entrusted with the power to start wars.

For six years, Americans really haven’t known why he launched the unnecessary Iraq attack. Official pretexts turned out to be baseless. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction after all, and wasn’t in league with terrorists, as the White House alleged. Collapse of his asserted reasons led to speculation about hidden motives: Was the invasion loosed to gain control of Iraq’s oil—or to protect Israel—or to complete Bush’s father’s vendetta against the late dictator Saddam Hussein? Nobody ever found an answer.

Now, added to the other suspicions, comes the goofy possibility that abstruse, supernatural, idiotic, laughable Bible prophecies were a factor. This casts an ominous pall over the needless war that has killed more than four thousand young Americans and cost U.S. taxpayers perhaps $1 trillion.

James A. Haught is the editor of the Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) and a Free Inquiry senior editor.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5

[Eyeball Chambers]

 

[24KT]

In all fairness to Bush's mental faculties, ...he may not have been all that off, ...infact, ...he might've been spot on, ...just a little confused about which side was which, ...and who the 'evil doers' actually were. Did you know his Daddy's skulls nomenclature was "Magog". Yep, ...that secret society from Yale were each initiate gets a name they go by... GHWBush's name was Magog. 

I'm appalled that Rumsfeld would use one of my favourite passages from the bible to manipulate the simpleton.
“Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground.”


What else does prophecy say? That first the one they think is the messiah will actually be the antichrist.
And only after he has come to pass, the real messiah will follow behind him.

I can't tell you how many Christians thought Bush was the messiah, ...I thought otherwise.
In my eyes, ...he was the spawn of Satan. Knowing his Daddy's nickname only validates my position imo.

Wait a minute... I guess that would make Obama what? Hmmmm, ...no wonder people refer to him as the messiah.

...just a little sumptin sumptin for all you God fearing Republican Christians to think about.... 

[Hugo Chavez]

The icing on this cake is when Bush called around to psycho televalgelists for advice on how events were to be played out, biblically, in the middle east.

Jack Van Impe, who is one of the crazier ones said this on his show.

“Do you think that President Bush, apparently a Christian man, believes and knows he is involved in prophetic events concerning the Middle East and final battle between good and evil?”

“I believe he is a wonderful man,” Van Impe responded, and goes on to say, “I was contacted a few weeks ago by the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline. And I’ve spent hours preparing it. I will release this information to the public in September, but it’s in his hands. He will know exactly what is going to happen in the Middle East and what part he will have under the leading of the Holy Spirit of God. So, it’s a tremendous time to be alive.”

[GigantorX]

This shit is fucked up.

[Soul Crusher]

This shit is fucked up.

I simply cant believe that other grown up people would not have revealed this and warned of this at the time. 

[Al Doggity]

I simply cant believe that other grown up people would not have revealed this and warned of this at the time. 

It's no surprise that Chirac would have kept this confidential.

GQ did an article on Bush's fanaticism a few months back. Rumsfeld would attach biblical quotes to portions of his daily briefings to persuade Bush in certain directions.

[Soul Crusher]

It's no surprise that Chirac would have kept this confidential.

GQ did an article on Bush's fanaticism a few months back. Rumsfeld would attach biblical quotes to portions of his daily briefings to persuade Bush in certain directions.

Thats just screwed up.  WTF is wrong with these people? 

I have not been to church in in like 15 years, and when I hear these things, it reminds me why. 

[24KT]

Now you know why so many people are adamant about a separation of Church & State.

I mean, ...if you're gonna have a religious fanatic as your head of state, making decisions and forming policy based on his or her spiritual beliefs, ...why can't s/he be a member of the Church of Hedonism... or something good like that? Why does he have to be one that believes in a deadly apocalyse destroying all life on the planet? That's just shitty luck!    {pout}