Today’s Guardian reports that the US President claimed to Palestinian leaders that “God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq”. (God obviously never fell for the weapons of mass destruction line.) This should be no surprise; after all, God is pretty keen on invading Iraq. George W. Bush’s father spent the week before his own attack on Iraq closeted with evangelist Billy Graham.
God's place of permanent residence is, of course, the Philippines. When not encouraging US presidents to bomb Baghdad, he pops up about once a week in Manila to resolve some ticklish problem. There he was in 2001 leading the march on Malacañang (“To believers like me, the presence of God in People Power 2 at EDSA cannot be disputed” according to former Senate President Aquilino Pimentel) and a few years later he advised President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo "not to run for president during the elections of 2004" (hmm, wonder what changed God’s mind?).
"It is God who puts ideas in my heart," explained Arroyo. "In fact, in my attendance at Mass, it felt to me like He was telling me that He chose me to become president because He also knows that when He tells me not to run, then I would not run," she said.
Nevertheless, although God may indeed be a Pinoy it is the Bushes who are his favoured children. According to a US General (subsequently promoted to deputy under-secretary of defense for intelligence in the wacky world of Bush’s America):
The war on terror, Lieut Gen Boykin [responsible for leading the hunt for Osama Bin Laden] told Christian groups in 2003, was a war against Satan. Of the president, the general asked: "Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. He's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."
Thanks a lot God!
Who's next God? Who's next?
So that means Osama bin Laden's claim that the US was engaging them in a holy war is true?
So the US troops are there to wage jihad without their knowing it?
Damn f.
Posted by: Jon Limjap | October 09, 2005 at 11:41 PM