1431 True News 48 - Burning Bush
The real reason America invaded Iraq.
Aug. 6, 2009 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Funny story. 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. | |
| 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, quote, 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. | |
| I mean, just by the by, can you imagine... | |
| Someone initiating violence against mostly innocent civilians on the basis of religious fanaticism? | |
| No, it's unthinkable. | |
| After the 03 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, quote, 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. | |
| Quote, Mainstream media, of course, has been ignoring this revelation. | |
| And... The French revelation jives with other known aspects of Bush's renowned evangelical certitude. | |
| For example, a few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush attended the 03 summit in Egypt. | |
| The Palestinian foreign minister later said that the American president told him that he was on a mission from God to defeat Iraq. | |
| Recently, GQ magazine revealed that former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld attached warlike Bible verses and Iraq battle photos to war reports that he had delivered to Bush. | |
| One declared, quote, Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground. | |
| For six years, Americans really haven't known why he launched the unnecessary Iraq attack. | |
| Official pretext turned out to be baseless. | |
| Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. | |
| And wasn't in league with the terrorists, as the White House alleged. | |
| Collapse of his asserted reasons led to speculation about hidden motives. | |
| Was the invasion loose to gain control of Iraq's oil? | |
| Nope. Or to protect Israel? | |
| Nope. Or to complete Bush's father's vendetta against the late dictator Saddam Hussein? | |
| Nope. Nobody ever found an answer, because they were looking in pragmatic, quote, sane places. | |
| Now, added to the other suspicions comes the goofy possibility that abstruse Supernatural, idiotic, laughable Bible prophecies, but I repeat myself, were a factor. | |
| This costs an ominous pall over the Needless War that has killed more than 4,000 young Americans, cost U.S. taxpayers perhaps $1 trillion. | |
| This is from James A. Hort. | |
| I will put the link to the right. | |
| It's a report called The French Revelation, or The Burning Bush. | |
| I do get flack from time to time because of my contempt for, disgust with, and eternal opposition, fiery opposition to superstition, particularly to insane superstitions with end times prophecies held by people who have their fingers on the buttons that can blow up the world. | |
| It is a tragedy that this report only talks about the American dead, not the over 100,000 Iraqis slaughtered, tortured, or the million or so or more who have had to flee Iraq because of the continual violence that was largely unleashed by this invasion. | |
| I think a lot of atheists don't really understand that religion is taken very seriously by very many people. | |
| Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series is one of the largest bestsellers in the fiction department, certainly in the religious areas. | |
| People take this shift very seriously. | |
| They genuinely believe that they're living in the end times. | |
| Many Christians genuinely believe that Satan walks the earth. | |
| Genuinely believe that Revelations is not The crazed fictions of half-starved peyote-munching monks, but an accurate prediction of future events. | |
| They actually believe that an undead Jewish zombie who is his own father will come back from the dead and lead them all up into the clouds to an eternal paradise. | |
| They actually believe this. | |
| And if you don't understand the degree to which people actually believe this, you really won't understand why religion is so vile. | |
| Imagine if there was a new flu that killed hundreds of thousands of people, caused millions of people to be dislocated. | |
| Would we not call this a mass panic and would we not do everything we could to hunt down and end this virus? | |
| Would we not do everything that we could in our power to end the virus that was killing the world? |
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