Why war on Iraq - Bush says God told him to do it

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report Friday June 27, 2003 16:47 by Andrew

Todays issue of the Israeli liberal paper Haaretz carries an article on the 'Road map' based on leaked minutes of a meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular and Democratic Fronts. Whats scary is that Abbas tells them that Bush revealed the real reasons for war on Iraq to them, "God told me to strike .. at Saddam"!

The article doesn't actually make a big deal of this, it simple ends with the quote in the last paragraph as reproduced below

According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush
said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I
struck them, and then he instructed me to
strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am
determined to solve the problem in the Middle
East. If you help me I will act, and if not,
the elections will come and I will have to
focus on them."

I've broken up the URL of the article into 2 seperate lines as its so long. Someone tell me its a spoof.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=310788
&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y