God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers

IMPORTANT: The White House has already denied this BBC Story. I really wanted to post this as second gaffe of the week (Karen Hughes' comments being the first). Right now, I don't know if this is a Bush or a BBC gaffe (or mine for posting it).

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml;

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"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.'"


Abu Mazen was at the same meeting and recounts how President Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."


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The series charts the attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, from Bill Clinton's peace talks in 1999/2000 to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last August.

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Presidents and Prime Ministers, their generals and ministers tell what happened behind closed doors as peace talks failed and the intifada exploded."

The man is truly delusional and needs to be on (strong) medicine.