GOD TOLD ME TO DO IT, SO I DID

Ok, I am not a religious person at all, but I'm sure that this is troubling for anyone who is still sane in this country.

A new BBC series reveals that President Bush told just such a thing to Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, in their first meeting in June 2003.

Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq…" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

Abu Mazen was at the same meeting and recounts how President Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."

This is one of the scariest things I've ever heard about Bush, and this time there is no doubting its veracity. I'm sorry, but if I heard someone talk like that, I'd wonder about his sanity. Period.

So the real question here isn't 'did Bush really say it' (he did,) or 'does Bush really believe what he said' (of course he does,) but 'since Bush is obviously crazy and still has 3 years in office, how much more damage can he do?'

We are talking about the guy who controls the mightiest military machine in the history of humanity and whose finger can launch 10,000 nuclear weapons in a matter of minutes. He could annihilate humanity and destroy civilization as we know it, and why? Because he suddenly wakes up one night, after dreaming God told him to launch the US nuclear arsenal, and just HAS to do it. Because God told him to.

We are talking about a born again Christian who longs for the coming of the rapture, and who might get sick of waiting and decide to speed things up a little, since he has the power to do so. He probably thinks God would thank him later for sparing him the work.

This is really scary. Three more years of this and we might all end up dead. I mean think about it. Iran, North Korea, Syria. It's not like he doesn't have a list.

God help us. No, really, help us. Forget George. He's crazy.