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My friend Evan at True/Slant leads us to an amazingly disturbing article in the latest issue of Free Inquiry magazine:
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.


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."
As Evan points out, this isn't the first time we've heard that the administration used religion as a war drum. I daresay it's not the last.
Posted By George on 08/06/2009 @ 09:13 AM | Link and Discuss (0) | More Religion bush war iraqwar religion secularism georgewbush chirac jaqueschirac
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