seperti biasa, orang2 yg ingin mempertahankan kekuasaan selalu mempunyai perisai sosial dan moral yg bernama 'agama', kalangan konservatif di gedung putih pun memiliki alasan klasik untuk menyerang pihak2 dgn ideologi selain kristen.
apa boleh buat, bush dkk mengatasnamakan agama dan tuhan utk menyerang irak (muslim in particular), sbg warisan orang israel di jaman kegelapan. entah knapa dari dulu, amerika selalu merasa bersih, suci, dan tak bersalah serta merasa menjadi korban ideologi jahat, sedangkan mereka sndiri jg melakukan penjajahan dan kejahatan kemanusiaan global (pemboman di hiroshima nagasaki, penggunaan senjata kimia di perang vietnam, merusak sendi2 politik dan fisik di afganistan, pencarian saddam di irak, berlagak 'bodoh' wkt pembantaian etnis di serbia, sampai pembunuhan orang2 di indonesia yg 'dituduh' PKI) bangsa dgn pemerintahan paling bengis sebenarnya amerika, dan bbrp pengekornya sprt inggris dan perancis (the safe players). akhirnya skrg dia menuduh orang2 muslim radicals untuk menutupi keborokan warisan bapaknya.... on 10/8/05 12:44 AM, ANDREAS MIHARDJA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Our prophet GeorgeBush is talking > > > > George Bush: 'God Told Me to End the Tyranny in Iraq' > By Ewen MacAskill > The Guardian UK > > Friday 07 October 2005 > > > President told Palestinians, God also talked to him about Middle East peace. > > George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the > invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian > politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. > Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian > delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of > Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. > One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at > the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission > from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in > Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the > tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." > Mr Bush went on: "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." > Mr Bush, who became a born-again Christian at 40, is one of the most overtly > religious leaders to occupy the White House, a fact which brings him much > support in middle America. > Soon after, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz carried a Palestinian > transcript of the meeting, containing a version of Mr Bush's remarks. But the > Palestinian delegation was reluctant publicly to acknowledge its authenticity. > The BBC persuaded Mr Shaath to go on the record for the first time for a > three-part series on Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy: Elusive Peace, which > begins on Monday. > Religion also surfaced as an issue when Mr Bush and Tony Blair were reported > to have prayed together in 2002 at his ranch at Crawford, Texas - the summit > at which the invasion of Iraq was agreed in principle. Mr Blair has > consistently refused to admit or deny the claim. > Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, who was also part of the > delegation at Sharm el-Sheikh, told the BBC programme that Mr Bush had said: > "I have a moral and religious obligation. I must get you a Palestinian state. > And I will." > Mr Shaath's comments came as Mr Bush delivered a speech yesterday aimed at > bolstering US support for the Iraq war. > He revealed that the US and its partners had disrupted at least 10 serious > al-Qaida plots since September 11, including three planned attacks in the US. > "Because of this steady progress, the enemy is wounded - but the enemy is > still capable of global operations," he said. He added that Islamic radicals > had used a series of excuses to justify their attacks, from conflict with the > Israelis to the Crusades 1,000 years ago. > "We're facing a radical ideology with unalterable objectives: to enslave whole > nations and intimidate the world," he said. > He conceded that al-Qaida, led in Iraq by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and other > insurgents had gained ground in Iraq but the US would not leave until security > had been established. 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