Gold told me to invadae Iraq

[Sven]

TweetGod told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers

Category: News

Date: 06.10.2005
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President George W Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals.



In Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.



Nabil Shaath says: "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.'"



Abu Mazen was at the same meeting and recounts how President Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."



The series charts the attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, from President Bill Clinton's peace talks in 1999/2000 to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last August.



Norma Percy, series producer of The 50 Years War (1998) returns, with producers Mark Anderson and Dan Edge, to tell the inside story of another seven years of crisis.



Presidents and Prime Ministers, their generals and ministers tell what happened behind closed doors as peace talks failed and the intifada exploded.



GREAT WE GOT FUCKIN JOAN OF ARC LEADING THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!

[O2BESOHUGE]

TweetMAYBE GOD WILL TELL HIM TO LOWER GAS PRICES!!

[space mountain]

Tweetlmfao at 02 dayum good one!

[Phreak]

Tweetbush is a c*nt

[solidground]

Tweethe said that in a public speach before we invaded them too.

[OldWiseGuy]

TweetGas will come down and when Bush's term is over you'll have to agree he was great. And BTW france did great till they burned Joan.

[T-Man007]

TweetWell, God (Allah) tells Muslims to hate Christians and Jews. Oh wait, that's a whole different story. It's ok to murder innocent people with suicide bombings but it's not ok to remove a dictator who kills his own people. A dictator who supports terrorism. I'm glad he went, but now it's time to get the phuk out.

[space mountain]

Tweettell them t -man

[Klash]

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Nabil Shaath says: "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.'"

I'm not a big fan of Bush's but hell the only part of this quote that sounds half way American is "and by god I'm gonn do it" the rest sounds like some palestinian misinterpreting something or bush has read the Bible so many times he's starting to talk Old Testament style.

It's obviously a paraphrasing in broken english from a palestinian, filtered through the BBC. I think it's fair to question the accuracy of the reporting.

I mean there is a big difference between "freedom is a gift from god and I am doing god's work" (which I can see Bush saying) and "god told me to free the world (or Iraq/Afghanistan)".