What was that, God?
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Posted on 10/06/2005 6:52:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details.
Bush made the claim when he met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and then foreign minister Nabil Shaath in June 2003, the ministers told the documentary series to be broadcast in Britain later this month.
The US leader also told them he had been ordered by God to create a Palestinian state, the ministers said.
Shaath, now the Palestinian information minister, said: " President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God.
'God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan'.'
"And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq...' And I did.
"'And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.' And by God I'm gonna do it'," said Shaath.
Abbas, who was also at the meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, recalled how the president told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation.
"So I will get you a Palestinian state."
A BBC spokesman said the content of the programme had been put to the White House but it had refused to comment on a private conversation.
The three-part series, "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs", charts the attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, from former US president Bill Clinton's peace talks in 1999-2000 to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza strip.
The programme speaks to presidents and prime ministers, their generals and ministers, about what happened behind closed doors as the peace talks failed and the intifada grew.
The series is due to be screened in Britain on October 10, 17 and 24.
God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers ^
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People in these meetings have already come out and said that this positively did NOT happen. It's a pack of lies.
The European press wants the world to believe that Bush is as bad as the terrorists, because they want to portray him as claiming a higher authority told him to create war and death, in a Islamic cult-like way.
God told me to ignore the BBC because they lie too much.
He's obedient.
Your headline is misleading
Bush denies
Other deny
The guy that said this is a liar
What was that, God?
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I doubt it happened either, but it wouldn't really bother me if it did. The only thing that would bother me is that he was stupid enough to tell Abbas that.
The European press wants the world to believe that Bush is as bad as the terrorists...
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The Godless Western Euro-press. A bunch of radical liberal idiots who could not make up one good conservative, patriotic American brain amongst them. They are losers, they sound and act like losers....they should focus more on thier miserable socialist governments and economies, before they start throwing rocks at the USA....idiots.
Bummer. I was about to say, "Hooraaaaaaaay, God!"
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
"The US leader also told them he had been ordered by God to create a Palestinian state"
Bush said God said create a land for muslims? Using land from Jews?
Are you sure?
Agreed!
LOL!
LOL
Coming soon , not sure if the BBC america channel will carry it, not that I would waste my time watching it.
I watch nightly news so I get enouf propaganda as is. :)..
I'm just using this afp article get some traffic to raise some dough for FR. ;-)
Makes you wish God would tell President Bush to bomb the BBC. LOL
BS from the BBC.
This is a rehashed claim from over a year ago and was debunked back then.
Trust the BBC to try to re-peddle a debunked story.
And you know what I heard the Palestinians said at the same meeting?
"We hate you effing infidels. We have sworn to Allah that we will eradicate you pigs from his earth. You are the scum of the devil and Allah demands we slaughter you and your fetid offspring and all their wart-covered offspring. May you die with your head up a python's butt. We will bomb the crap out of your children as they pray your filthy prayers in your poopy churches that are inferior to our wonderful mosques. Allah told us all this and more, but we can't remember all he said. But he did say you were bad guys and needed to die right now."
Now, BBC, that is certainly not as bad as what you claim Bush said, so why didn't you report it?
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