God wills it

And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far,
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

George Bush hears voices. Not our voices or the voices of reason; he hears voices in that coke addled, booze pickled blob of mediocrity between his elfin ears and thinks it’s God.

A new BBC series to air October 17th reveals that George has told Palestinian Ministers that God told him to invade Iraq. In Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October,) Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Foreign Minister 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, Palestinian Prime Minister, recounts how President Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."

It becomes apparent that George W. Bush’s crusading spirit is more than a metaphor. It becomes apparent that his attempts to gain more control over the military and the ability to use it domestically; his attempts to increase the Pentagon’s power to spy on us without a trace of due process and his willingness to veto a bill banning torture are pieces of a horrifying jigsaw puzzle picture.

“God wills it” was the rallying cry of the first Crusade which took Jerusalem in 1099 and which for the first time made slaughter a sacred act for which the killers would be rewarded in heaven. And so George W. Bush puts on the mantle of Osama bin Laden and begins his religious mission to bring on the apocalypse he believes in.

Back in the Eisenhower years the concern arose as to what to do if the President became mentally unfit to serve by reason of, in Dwight’s case, something like a stroke. How long can we survive with a madman at the helm? How long will it be before we see him in women’s clothing, claiming to be Joan of Arc?

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise

Kubla Khan

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge- 1798