Dear Dave:
--I thank you for your response to my posting about wars and thier causes. With regard to your contention that George Bush said "God told me to invade Iraq"; Let me point out that I able to find only one source for this "quote", which I will detail below.
"""""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), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.
Nabil Shaath 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.'"""""
--I would like to point out that BBC does not quote George Bush as saying "God told me to invade Iraq", it quotes Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Foreign Minister as saying this is more or less what Bush told him. Minister Shaath's office's position on the non-existence the holocaust, is well known, and has previously told us that:
"There is no tangible evidence of any Jewish traces/remains in the old city of Jerusalem and its immediate vicinity."
--This BBC quote is from a time when there was an internal war going on at the BBC, and editorial opinions, seemed to be leaking over into the hard news. Case in point would be the "Kelly Affair" or the "Gilligan Affair". Andrew Gilligan, BBC corresponden alleged that the Blair administration had deliberately lied about the intelligence regarding WMDs in Iraq, had falsified documents and "sexed up" the dossiers. Subsequently, under pressure from the Government, Gilligan broke his pledge of annonomity to his source, Kelly, who then comitted suicide Truely, now the fit had hit the shan. Then:
"Panorama [a BBC program] condemns BBC's own conduct in Kelly affair, By Alasdair Palmer 12:01AM GMT 18 Jan 2004 [excerpt below]
"''''No one asked to see his notes, however, and so the BBC only discovered that what came to be the central plank of its defence - that Mr Gilligan was "only faithfully reporting the words that his source had told him" - was unsupported when the reporter gave evidence to the Hutton Inquiry.
He was then forced to admit that "I do regard those words as imperfect and I should not have said them.''''''
--While you may indeed be correct and the quote may indeed be accurate, I just wanted to point out the troubles of the BBC at that time, and that the ultimate source of the quote is from people who celebrated 9-11 by handing out candy. And so a grain of salt might be indicated.
--P.S. I noticed while I was posting this that your newest Video is up. I cannot wait to see how you pull off a "Walk Time Rant". You should get a dog, perhaps, to walk with you.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" Carl Sagan 1934-1996
Best Regards
Clear Ether