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Originally posted by kettlebellysmith
How can you question Bush's beliefs? How do you know what he believes in his heart? You accuse him of not being a true christian, but you have no way of knowing that. Only God and President Bush know that.
To quote The Christ; Judge not, lest you be judged.
You may judge his actions, but you have no way of knowing what he really believes.
Originally posted by Fremd
Originally posted by liveandlearn
Geez, an I thought he was just stupid. This is over the top as far as I am concerned.
...and what's worse is a majority of this country elected him
....twice
Originally posted by Manouche
apart from France and Germany, most european countries did join the Coalition in Iraq actually. Only the very mean ones stood out
In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.
Skull & Bones' initiates are assigned or take on nicknames. And what was George Bush Senior's nickname? "Magog".
Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.
Gog and Magog symbolize one of many links between the modern business institutions of the City [of London] and its ancient history. This is but the most recent of their various re-births, which have long been symbolised by the phoenix on Magog’s shield, representing return after fire. Today, the words of Thomas Boreman in his “Gigantick History” of 1741 summarise the Londoner’s view as well as ever:
“Corineus and Gogmagog were two brave giants who richly valued their honour and exerted their whole strength and force in the defence of their liberty and country; so the City of London, by placing these, their representatives in their Guildhall, emblematically declare, that they will, like mighty giants defend the honour of their country and liberties of this their City; which excels all others, as much as those huge giants exceed in stature the common bulk of mankind.”
Towards the head of the procession you will see two stern but benevolent wicker giants. They are Gog and Magog, the traditional guardians of the City of London, and they have been carried in the Lord Mayor’s Show since the reign of Henry V.
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Another version of the story has it that these two giants were the last two survivors of the sons of the thirty-three infamous daughters of Diocletian, who were captured and kept chained to the gates of a palace on the site of Guildhall to act as guardians. However they got there, we do know that by the reign of Henry V, there were carved giants guarding the gates of Guildhall. In 1554 they appeared in the Lord Mayor’s Show, and in 1605 the Pageantmaster of the day alluded to the giants who appeared in the Procession on Lord Mayor’s Day as Corineus and Gogmagog.
Later in 1672, the Pageantmaster Thomas Jordan referred to them as “two exceeding rarities”, and stated that “at the conclusion of the Show, they are to be set up in Guildhall, where they may be daily seen all year and I hope never to be demolished by such dismal violence as happened to their predecessors.” He was referring to the destruction of much of the City by the great fire in 1666...
Originally posted by LAUGHING-CAT
we, the USA, are in the Mid-East to protect the 'Euro's source of oil. Most of our oil comes from our own hemisphere, and its cleaner crude, why do youse think ours is cheaper?
We lose the Euros, we lose alot, get over the BS of this, that and the other thing, we are there to to clean up the mess the Euros can't find their own broom to deal with.
Oh, and the broom analogy, a new broom sweeps clean.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Bush sr, in conjunction with other notable neo-cons was running the show the past eight years.
Originally posted by drwizardphd
Bush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac: "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 absolutely frightening!
Not only is Bush revealed to be a psychopathic religious nut, he's also blatantly referring to a new world order.
The story has now been confirmed by Chirac himself in a new book, published in France in March, by journalist Jean Claude Maurice. Chirac is said to have been stupefied and disturbed by Bush's invocation of Biblical prophesy to justify the war in Iraq and "wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs".
No wonder the French didn't want to help us in the middle east! While we called them pussies and waxed idiotic about freedom fries, they were really the sane ones looking at us as a bunch of religious wackos.
Originally posted by Manouche
Reducing France and Germany position on such a complex issue as the invasion of Iraq to a mere conflict about some oil contracts is simply overlooking the larger picture.
Chirac is as believable as any politician though.
Originally posted by Manouche
Strategic markets like oil, arms, aeronautics are no fair competition. Corruption, occult commissions, pressuring, lobbying, exchange of "favors" are everywhere. Reducing France and Germany position on such a complex issue as the invasion of Iraq to a mere conflict about some oil contracts is simply overlooking the larger picture.