Confirmation that we went into Iraq because our leaders belived in invisible sky people.

[misterx]

Bush to Jacques Chirac, prior to war in Iraq: “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 is confirmed by Chirac. So we went to war with Iraq because of Biblical prophesy? It was a f*cking holy war?  Excuse the pun, but holy shit! Four thousand American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives because of this. A trillion dollars in debt, gone to line the pockets of the war industries.

Fuck. WHY PEOPLE? WHY?

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5

Comments

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Well, my skeptical meter is right at 50% on this one. I don't think Chirac would lie, but I don't know the man.

[zeppo-marx.livejournal.com]

No offense, but it's only now that you have come to this realization? There was so much religious subtext at the time that it was clearly a part of the reasoning. After all, it certainly made no sense from a security standpoint to turn away from Al Qaeda to pursue Saddam with the first job still unfinished.

History will not be kind to GW

[cz_unit]

Makes sense. And besides, people believe in this junk. Many will just nod their heads knowingly.

CZ