Replies to post #322120 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[hap0206]

nah -- now i could be wrong, but it seems like those pals have shown a bit of animosity toward the west --

so an assertion like

>>>Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine Nabil Shaath quoted George W. Bush as saying that God told him to invade Iraq and attack Afghanistan, as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East<<<

kinda infers , maybe is meant to mean that the USA is on a new crusade

like, maybe, King Richard a thousand or so years ago

and, maybe, just maybe, a new Saladin

should be found to smite the USA and kill the jews

[mlsoft]

wall...

Well, no -- it is not good enough. I did quite a bit of research about that comment, because it seemed to me that it would be highly unlikely that Bush made such a remark. I googled and read everything I could find and it seems that of all the people there only Shaath seemed to remember the remark (which can be translated several ways into english from the arabic) and no one else could corroborate it. Bush denies ever saying it, and no one with his delegation heard anything like it.

Shaath himself later retracted his statement.

My conclusion was (and is) that the comment was never made.

mlsoft