Undarleg tilvitnun í George W. Bush

[Eiríkur]

Ég hef oft heyrt því fleygt að Bush hafi verið (og sé) öfgamaður í trúmálum en ég hélt að það væri meira af pólitískum ástæðum en að hann væri virkilega svona klikkaður.

Hér er hann þó að reyna að sannfæra Jaques Chirac um að fara í stríð:

“Jacques,” he said, “You and I share a common faith. You’re Roman Catholic, I’m Methodist, but we are both Christians committed to the teachings of the Bible. We share one common Lord”

Chirac said nothing. He didn’t know where Bush was going with this.

“Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East,” Bush said. ‘’Biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.”

Gog and Magog? What was that?, thought Chirac.

“This confrontation,” Bush said, “is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a new age begins.”

Chirac was bewildered. The American president, he thought, sounded dangerously fanatical.

After the call ended, Chirac called together his senior staff members and relayed the conversation.

“He said, ‘Gog and Magog.’ Do any of you know what he is talking about?”

Blank faces and head shakes.

“Find out,” Chirac said.

(úr bók Kurt Eichenwald, "500 days")