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Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “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 bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

After the 2003 call, the puzzled French leader didn’t comply with Bush’s request. Instead, his staff asked Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of Lausanne, to analyze the weird appeal. Dr. Romer explained that the Old Testament book of Ezekiel contains two chapters (38 and 39) in which God rages against Gog and Magog, sinister and mysterious forces menacing Israel. Jehovah vows to smite them savagely, to “turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,” and slaughter them ruthlessly. In the New Testament, the mystical book of Revelation envisions Gog and Magog gathering nations for battle, “and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”

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

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Old Testament was written by the jews. Or more accurately, the Israelites, where jews were just one little tribe. Christians weren't born until 1,000s of years after Exodus was "written".

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:

Hello,

Presidents don't run anything?

They have no control?

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

Be explicit. Are the presidents not in control of their decisions?

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Old Testament was written by the jews. Or more accurately, the Israelites, where jews were just one little tribe. Christians weren't born until 1,000s of years after Exodus was "written".

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"Christians" are actually just Jews who gave themselves another name. They follow a Jew who lived and died as a Jew. Christ was not a Christian. If you follow Christ, you're following a Jew.

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Originally posted by RIPWash:
You got it, Kwicko! That's exactly right! Because if he was NOT a Jew there would have been no way he could have been who he said he was.

Pretty cool, huh?

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

Perhaps, Gino.

I am avidly interested in Pirate's explicit and personal view on the matter.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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