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Global Eye -- Errand Boy
By Chris Floyd

So now we know. After all the mountains of commentary
and speculation, all the earnest debates over motives
and goals, all the detailed analyses of global strategy
and political ideology, it all comes to down to this:
George W. Bush waged war on Iraq because, in his own
words, God ''instructed me to strike at Saddam.''

This gospel was revealed, appropriately enough, in the
Holy Land this week, through an unusual partnership
between the fractious children of Abraham. The Israeli
newspaper Haaretz was given transcripts* of a negotiating
session between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
and faction leaders from Hamas and other militant
groups. Abbas, who was trying to persuade the groups to
call a cease-fire in their uprising against Israeli
forces, described for them his recent summit with Ariel
Sharon and Bush.

During the tense talks at the summit, Bush sought to
underscore the kind of authority he could bring to
efforts at achieving peace in the Middle East. While
thundering that there could be ''no deals with terror
groups,'' Bush sought to assure the rattled Palestinians
that he also had the ability to wring concessions from
Sharon. And what was the source of this wonder-working
power? It was not, as you might think, the ungodly size
of the U.S. military or the gargantuan amount of money
and arms the United States pours into Israel year after
year.

No, Bush said he derived his moral heft from the
Almighty Himself. What's more, the Lord had proven his
devotion to the Crawford Crusader by crowning his
military efforts with success. In fact, he told Abbas,
God was holding the door open for Middle East peace
right now -- but they would have to move fast, because
soon the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe would
have to give His attention to something far more
important: the election of His little sunbeam, Georgie,
in 2004.

Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by Haaretz: ''God
told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and
then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did,
and now I am determined to solve the problem in the
Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the
elections will come and I will have to focus on them.''

You can't put it plainer than that. The whole chaotic
rigmarole of Security Council votes and UN inspections
and congressional approval and Colin Powell's whizbang
Powerpoint displays of ''proof'' and Bush's own tearful
prayers for ''peace'' -- it was all a sham, a meaningless
exercise.

No votes, no inspections, no proof or lack of proof --
in fact, no earthly reason whatsoever -- could have
stopped Bush's aggressive war on Iraq. It was God's
unalterable will: the Lord of Hosts gave a direct order
for George W. Bush to ''strike at Saddam.''

Church and State part two

And strike he did, with an awesome fury that rained
death and destruction on the mustachioed whore of
Babylon, with a firestorm of Godly wrath that consumed
the enemy armies like so much chaff put to the flame --
and with an arsenal of cruise missiles, cluster bombs,
dive bombers and assault helicopters that killed up to
10,000 innocent civilians: blasted to pieces in their
beds, shot down in their fields and streets, crushed
beneath the walls of their own houses, boiled alive in
factories, ditches and cars, gutted, mutilated,
beheaded, murdered, women, children, elders, some
praying, some wailing, some cursing, some mute with fear
as metal death ripped their lives away and left rotting
hulks behind. This was the work of the Lord and His
faithful servant, whom He hath raised high up to have
dominion over men.

And this is the mindset -- or rather, the primitive
fever-dream -- that is now directing the actions of the
greatest military power in the history of the world.
There can be no doubt that Bush believes literally in
the divine character of his mission. He honestly and
sincerely believes that whatever ''decision'' forms in his
brain -- out of the flux and flow of his own emotional
impulses and biochemical reactions, the flattery and
cajolements of his sinister advisers, the random scraps
of fact, myth and fabrication that dribble into his
proudly undeveloped and incurious consciousness -- has
been planted there, whole and perfected, by God
Almighty.

And that's why Bush acts with such serenity and
ruthlessness. Nothing he does can be challenged on moral
grounds, however unethical or evil it might appear,
because all of his actions are directed by God. He can
twist the truth, oppress the poor, exalt the rich,
despoil the Earth, ignore the law -- and murder children
-- without the slightest compunction, the briefest
moment of doubt or self-reflection, because he believes,
he truly believes, that God squats in his brainpan and
tells him what to do.

And just as God countenanced deception on the part of
Abraham, just as God forgave David for the murders he
ordered, just as God blessed the armies of Saul as they
obliterated the Amalekites, man, woman and child, so
will He overlook any crime committed by Bush and his
minions as they carry out His will. That's why Bush can
always ''do whatever it takes'' to achieve his goals. And
by his own words to Abbas, we see that he places his
election in 2004 above all other concerns, even the
endless bloodshed in the Middle East.

So what new crimes will the Lord have to countenance to
keep His appointed servant in power?

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