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Bush claims God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan

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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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051006...q_051006214432

It all depends on how it is that god tells him this. Whether he feels god is audibly telling him this or if he is just certain that his sense of the right thing to do comes from god. It is hardly unusual for religious people to think there is some form of communication between them and their deity.

But I already think it is silly to think god even exists so I don't consider it that much odder to speak with it.

Perhaps it's not uncommon to believe in having communcation with God. However, it does seem odd that God would tell someone to wage a war since there seems to be a universal message going through most religions that God wants the people of the world to be at peace with each other.

God told me the whole thing is a hoax

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Originally Posted by zapppop

There aren't that many Pacifist dieties out there and the Judeo-Christian one is hardly one.

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

There aren't that many Pacifist dieties out there and the Judeo-Christian one is hardly one.

Well, a third of it is supposed to be isn't it?

Eh, back to the banyon tree to say Ommmmmm

God told me Kicking the Sheet out of the taliban was good Idea after what they backed (9/11)

God also Told me he appears to GW Bush as a talking Squirrel holding a Bottle of Jack Daniels outside the Oval Office Window.

God Appears to me in a bottle of Valium. So Far, So Good.

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God told me to have leftover BBQ ribs for breakfast. Who am I to disobey a direct order from God?

"My God has a bigger d*** than your God!" - George Carlin

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

"My God has a bigger d*** than your God!" - George Carlin

My God IS a bigger Dick than your God

God. It's Everywhere You Wanna Be.

gee, all these jokes and it looks like it isn't even true-

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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has denied an account by another Palestinian official of a meeting with US President George Bush in which Bush is cited as saying he believed that God told him to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A statement in Abbas's name released by his office said an excerpt from an interview with Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Shaath due to be broadcast by the BBC in which Shaath described a meeting with Bush in June 2003 gave a "completely false" account.

In the interview for the series, Israel and the Arabs, Shaath described the meeting, at which he said Abbas was present.

"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,'" Shaath said.

"This report is not true," the Abbas statement said today. "I have never heard President Bush talking about religion as a reason behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Bush has never mentioned that in front of me on any occasion and specifically not during my visit in 2003."

You know, if God really wanted us to comply to a particular moarl code, you think he'd drop this whole "working in mysterious ways business." I mean, could you run a corporate compliance program by periodically setting fire to departments that were out of compliance but only tell one guy in mailing that that was what was happening?

Why does God only speak to people one at a time? Being omnipotent and all, you'd think he'd just flick on the Emergency God Broacast system and say, "hey would you people stop with the anal sex already." Sheesh God, get a clue.

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Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

God told me to have leftover BBQ ribs for breakfast.

Mmmmm....they were sacrilicious.

(God told me to quote myself)