Did God tell Bush to attack Iraq?
By Pose123
@Pose123 (21635)
Canada
July 16, 2008 8:58pm CST
President Bush has been quoted as saying that God told him to attack Iraq and Afghanistan. Did he really say this or is someone saying it as a joke? Are there anyone here who would believe him if he said it? Does anyone think that God would tell us to go to war and kill millions of innocent people? I see this is vastly different from world war II, when Hitler had to be stopped from taking over the free world, even then there was no divine intervention. So what do you think, has Bush got a hot line to heaven?
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28 responses
@amrishkj (297)
• India
17 Jul 08
Oh that buthead would say anything he liked. Next morning he will wake up and say that god wanted me to destroy the US so I just blewup all the WMD's that were lying around in the US. Do you sincerely belive what he say, I mean I feel like laughing half the time when he opens his mouth to say something. I suppose the age is catching up on him and playing things on his brain, if he has one at all.
@ahyi89 (15)
• Singapore
17 Jul 08
That is just a joke to me.
Basically i don't believe in 'GOD' ordering people to kill people?
Or rather if 'GOD' told us to live in harmony, i can still believe a bit.
I can say i eat, just because God told me to? No, is because I'm hungry that all.
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@RebeccaLynn (2256)
• United States
29 Dec 08
I think you would have to ask God that question.
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
I don't think that GOD told Bush to do anyhing. Only Satan could gie Bush the messages he's bee getting.
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@mcat19 (1357)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Who knows what goes on in that man's head? I am so sick of people telling me that Saddam was a bad man. Is it up to us to kill every bad man in charge of a country? And get so many of our young men and women killed doing it? Saddam was not aligned with terrorist; he didn't agree with anything about them. He didn't have WMDs at the time we attacked; he did previously, but the inspectors were doing a good job. No one every found any WMDs. But there are some stubborn people who still believe he had them.
The terrorists came from Afghanistan. Now, we finally see that we dropped the ball there by sending all our troops to Iraq. If G-d spoke to GW, he didn't listen very well. I know that G-d isn't responsible for the mess this country is in now; GW is and we are all suffering for it.
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@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
30 Dec 08
I think it’s a joke. Anyway Bush is famous for many such goof ups and I wont be surprised if he actually meant something else. He’s not got a hotline to heaven, he’s just got good anticipation of the future in trying to secure an oil-rich nation and a natural-gas rich nation for his own country (cant really blame his patriotism for that) but horrible planning and terrible advisors.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
It could have been a joke, but it also could be that God gave Bush the incite into making the decision. That is one thing about God that non believers including pagans do not understand. They think that God will speak in an audible voice or in a dream and say, "Saddam Hussain is evil, destroy him and Iraq and also Afghanistan
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@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
17 Jul 08
i dont believe so however i feel he definatly uses God for his own purposes and for this he is wrong remember not everyone who calls "lord lord" is a christian
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@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
19 Jul 08
His god might have told him, but the I am sure the God of the Bible would not tell him. The war in Iraq is never a fair one. How could he justify war when he could not find the WMD? It was just to cover up his private agenda that he brought in the name of God. But yes, it can be possible if he is worshiping a local god and not God of the Bible... and local god tells whatever the worshiper wants to hear cos the worshiper has created such a god that will tell him only what he wants to hear.
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@bdugas (3578)
• United States
17 Jul 08
If I was to think anything of it, and I never seen or heard him say anything like that,but he could have I guess. I would take it to mean he prayed on what to do and he felt that god told him to follow his heart and what he felt was right. I get so tired of hearing people bash Bush for Iraq, everyone was all for it at first. I think he done what he did based on what information he was told. I think he did the people of Iraq a good deed in taking out someone that at a monents notice would go out and pick a bunch and kill them off. Who was so cruel that he didn't allow any of the Iraqi people to even be alllowed to eat or buy meat. What kind of life did those people have, it is not them that is killing our men over there. Hussen had weapons of mass distruction he used on his own people, who is to say that one day he would not of used them on us. Apresident is only as good as the information that is passed to him, and I would say they do a lot of praying over what discissions to make. And any little thing the people want to bash him for a statement or turn it around to suit them.
Wait till Obama gets in with his weird way of handling the foreign enemies and see how long it takes before another 911,then we will see how much Bush done for us, because with out his wiretaps we would of been hit again way back.
All they are waiting on is Obama to get inoffice because he is against anything that they would have to show ids for and they know it will be an easy entry into the usa, so anyone who makes fun of Bush , he has kept us safe from another attack, useless Obama will just make it easier for them and I hope he don't pray about it since he spent 20 eyars hearing how we as americans are no good.
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@WATARIKENJI (1534)
• Philippines
18 Jul 08
I dont think that bush will say that. He will be accused of being a lunatic if he would claim that.
@pukaprat2 (442)
• United States
17 Jul 08
holy rusted metal batman- wouldnt surprise me one bit if he thought or said something like that. and if it was divine intervention then all the christians should be pleased since, well the end of the world will be apon us soon. but who is to say it wasnt from God that it was. but i will do some research and see if the acusations are true. i think it would be funny if it was.
i have been telling people for a while now that it is our generation that is destined for these things. and maybe i am wrong - time will cetainly tell.
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@notfauxnews (3)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
I'm going to make this brief. The God of oil may have told him to go into Iraq. And Afghanastan. And maybe soon Iran with Israel's help . To say this is vastly different from World War 2 is completely wrong. Similarities abound. Hitler had the Riechstad burned and blamed it on terrorists of the time. Bush had 9/11 and blamed it on terrorists. Your rights and freedoms have deteriorated all in the name of security. To question them gets you labeled a terrorist. The only difference is that this time the facism starts in America with Bush and all his NWO cronies and god is not involved.
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@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
18 Jul 08
Hi notfauxnews, I agree with you in some ways, but in World war ll, Hitler had invaded and conquered several smaller countries and these countries needed to be liberated. I know where you are coming from about facism. Thank you for coming here and expressing your views. Blessings.
@notfauxnews (3)
• Canada
18 Jul 08
Well Hitler, I mean Bush, has already invaded Iraq, Afghanistan and possibly Iran very soon. Who was Hitler liberating these countries he invaded from? My parents grew up in war torn Europe and hhad no problems with the political system in Holland, so why was it invaded? Bush uses the facade of liberation to fulfill his own agenda which would be oil.
@Bugsey (775)
• United States
18 Jul 08
No because I am not privy to Bush's private conversations with God much as I am also not privy with the consversations of these Al Queda killers with "their god". On a more serious note, I do not think the real God tells people to go murdering others, but they sure have the right to defend themselves.
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@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
18 Jul 08
No, God does not tell anyone to do anything. People make their own decisions and they need to starting taking responsibility for those decisions instead of blaming everything on God.
@bonita45 (33)
• Mexico
18 Jul 08
Well I never heard him say that he probably said it to a friend as a joke. On a matter like that he would have needed to be fasting for more than forty days and praying and spending quiet time in the presence of the Lord. And he was in public a lot so he could not have consulted properly with God on that matter.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Words to that effect were supposedly exchanged in a private meeting Bush had with Palestinian leaders in 2003. I find it doubtful that's what he said.
I do believe he said these words, though, in an interview with Bob Woodward: "I'm surely not going to justify war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case, I pray that I will be as good a messenger of His will as possible. And then of course, I pray for forgiveness."
Remember, our military is not killing millions. The terrorists in that country are the ones doing most of the killing.
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@jinglebee (61)
• United States
18 Jul 08
this is the part where one has to choose between two dominant evils, and george w. bush chose the less evil one. capturing saddam hussein and subjecting him to the law of iraq which put an end to his life also put an end the destruction that he had started doing. for a tyrant who wants to rule the world with nuclear weapons, and all the countries in the world just submit to that, i dont think anyone of us can truly say, "it's a free world." he was going to make a bigger iraq out of the the world. i'm glad there's one and a few behind him who didn't let that happen.
@pradysgirl (246)
• India
17 Jul 08
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and wanted to move into Saudi Arabia Bush sr wanted to free Kuwait and hence operation desert strom the first Gulf war took place and forced Iraqi troops to back off. This further led Bush jr to speculate that Saddam hussein tried to kill his father when Bush Sr went to kuwait to celebrate the truimph of gulf war. So this looks more like a personal rivalry to me to end Saddam husseins rule and make him bend on his knees to beg for his life. later as things went out of controll they hanged him . There were no weapons of mass destruction or any axis of evil. everything was done for Geoge Bush sr to make for his fathers failed assasination bid. But Americans are paying heavy for this.