Re: with god on my side

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 11:25:53 MDT

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    --- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
    > According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: "God told me to
    > strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to
    > strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve
    > the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if
    > not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
    >
    > ======================
    >
    > You have to hope something was added in translation.

    Or hope that Bush's advisers are very wisely advising him to talk to
    the muslims in a language they understand and can relate to. Devout
    muslims, for the most part, seem to think in a very mythological or
    mystical way. Bush's statement to them seems to try to communicate his
    own internal dialogue in a way that devout muslims can directly relate
    to. This is taking a page directly from how Lawrence of Arabia gained
    such respect amongst the arab peoples.

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    Mike Lorrey
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