by Dan Creamer

Created on: January 13, 2007   Last Updated: March 22, 2012

Why Bush Wants War.

The height of arrogance is to assume one knows the mind of God regarding any particular circumstance. To believe that our intellect, study of the scriptures or inner voices allow us to predict with 100% accuracy the reaction of the Lord to anything is to lift ourselves up to the same deified status that God now possess. We start to assume that any and everything we believe is based on God's wants and desires as revealed to us and therefore we can do no wrong. After all, anything we do in God's name is for the sake of he who created us and directs our thoughts and actions.

All religions have misguided zealots who are delusional about their relationship with and knowledge of God. Some become suicide bombers and some become presidents. Of the two, the president is by far the more dangerous. Granted a suicide bomber can take dozens to thousands of lives in a moment of religious zeal, but a president can, unchecked, plunge the whole planet into thermonuclear war.

President Bush is in my opinion, such a president. It is hard to imagine any other reason for his absolute tunnel vision regarding Iraq, and all of the deception he foisted onto the American public and our allies, as justification for this war. His continued intransigence is symptomatic of the kind of megalomania that all religious zealots suffer from.

There is ample evidence in the Presidents past to support this view. In her book "The Mighty and the Almighty" MS. Madeline Albright recalls a time when Bush told Christian audiences that he thought God wanted him to be president. She quotes from his 2004 Presidential Convention speech where he said "we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom". President Bush is also on record as having prayed to God for guidance before attacking Iraq.

When the president says he sees this conflict as the defining battle between good and evil he really means between Christianity and Islam. It is not too difficult to imagine him, seeing himself as a modern crusader, in his heart of hearts.

From a secular and macro political point of view this conflict was poorly
justified, if at all. Additionally, it was grossly conceived and implemented. All of our political leadership failed to question adequately the reasons for and why it was necessary. Through cowardice, apathy, stupidity or a combination of the three, they allowed themselves to be railroaded into approving a morally unjust and politically unwise war.

Once committed to opening hostilities,

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