Lawsuit claims: On a “mission from God,” George W. planned to “take out” 7 countries in 5 years.

[JackRiddler]

77. Bush's crazy faith is not really the story.

We agree that it's insane and stupid, but Bush's faith or belief in some interpretation of Revelations was not remotely the reason for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The pre-history building up to that moment dates back to about 1973. Bush's faith was not at all the reason for the PNAC plan, or their 1998 letter to Clinton, or for the immediate preparations after Coup 2000 (i.e., prior to 9/11) for invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan, or for Rumsfeld's immediate swivel to Iraq on the day of 9/11 as documented in the release of memos from his deputy.

Bush's beliefs about Gog and Magog are just some magical bullshit with which this regime frontman and aggressor-in-chief can justify a course of action he did not himself devise, one that was already provided for him as his life's mission by people surrounding and managing him. Without them, of course, he would never have even been sitting in that chair.

The Iraq invasion was a group enterprise motivated by a particular, wide-ranging and in fact global geopolitical vision; by MIC business plans set up to profit the various perpetrators; and by the desire to control the second-largest proven oil reserves in the world. There would never have been any chance of it happening if the only factor had been Bush's faith. The latter is a superfluous add-on that was, however, highly useful in winning the support of the mad fundamentalists and self-styled anti-Muslim "infidels" at home.

This needs to be understood, because defeating fundamentalist Christianist politics would change only a small part of the U.S. political dynamics underlying the federal government's constant drive to new wars, new covert interventions, constructions of new enemies, and reactionary and pro-corporate policy stances in all nations (the latter as so effectively documented in the State Department memos released by Wikileaks).