Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Monday, May 25, 2009

The revelation this month in GQ magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means?

The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush's Christian millenarian beliefs that has yet to come to light.

In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.

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What I don't understand is why, if this is true, it was/is not widely circulated and exposed by the press?

Are they afraid to inflame religious sensitivities?


in Homer's Odyssee, there were many adventures in the middle east. Like the bible, the torah and the koran, it is a good piece of literature too.


Like the bible, the torah and the koran, it is a good piece of literature too.

"like"

Do you mean Unlike?

He was driven by his belief that the attack on Saddam's Iraq was the fulfilment of a Biblical prophesy in which he had been chosen to serve as the instrument of the Lord.
I think "tool" is a better description of Dubya than "instrument". Unless its a wind instrument, cause so many Righties spent the last 8 years blowing him.

Since Poppy Bush's Skull and Bones name is Magog, I would say that Doobya was speaking from personal experiance.

George H. W. Bush was "Magog," a name reserved for a member considered to have the most sexual experience.
en.wikipedia.org

AND "George W. Bush, unable to decide, was temporarily called "Temporary," and the name was never changed."


AND "George W. Bush, unable to decide, was temporarily called "Temporary," and the name was never changed."


Very funny and right in the mold over never completing ANYTHING...

"This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins".

Jesus limping Christ, and his brother Jimmy.

That's some too close to the edge shit, right there.

Hallelujah. God wills that I should get out the weed and pack a bowl or two. This will show the unbelievers that shake will go farther for your money than buds will. Praise Jehosephat.

The more I learn about religion, the stupider it gets.

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