Jacques Chirac, former president of France, is now describing in detail the arguements that George Bush made in seeking French troops for the invasion of Iraq. They were based on literal Biblical interpretation.  Bush sounds like Bush is a true religious crackpot if it is true. And it also shows the dangers to all of us in electing leaders who are convinced that they are the direct agents of some god here on Earth.

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”