Aug 15 2007
“The World According to Dubya…”
Times Online published a list of 50 religious statements from Dubya, of which my personal favorite (or rather, dis-favorite) comes from a TV interview from my home country, Romania:
Well, first of all, you got to understand some of my view on freedom, it’s not American’s gift to the world. See, freedom is God — is God given. Interview with TVR, Romania, Nov. 23, 2002
Let me translate, “Just in case those poor Romanians (whose own concept of freedom is dubious, right) had any doubts about what freedom really is, here comes Dubya to shed some light on it.”
And the scariest statement, in my mind, which ranked at number 1 on the Times list:
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. Sharm el-Sheikh August 2003
Unfortunately Dubya misunderstood and thought George=United States. Where I come from George means George or sometimes Gheorghe, it doesn’t mean much else…
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Hmm, a God that requires submission to his will or else tosses you into a pit of eternal torment has given us the gift of freedom? I’m glad I’m Canadian.
Haha, It’s the doubt on how good god’s freedom is that probably made Dubya want to explain to the Romanian people that this freedom is not American… it’s god given. He is given us choices: American freedom, or god’s freedom… The Iraqis got a taste of both on the account of Dubya. There was no choice there, because god told him he had to go to Iraq. If you put all those quotes together it can make your head spin.
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